Cookie Clicker isn't realistic. But when you think about it, it's a fairly accurate model for capitalism. You Start out with nothing, but you access to a lot of things that help you build a cookie business (cursors, grandmas, etc). As you grow your business, you use your products to make more and more cookies. Every time you increase your production, other people get hurt.
But you never, ever, feel the effects. Without the news ticker, you wouldn't even know this was going on. No one stops you from continuing to do terrible things in the name of profit. When you do destroy the world, all you have to do is move on to another world.
I should mention that Cookie clicker doesn't give you any "good" options. You can't choose to use safer mining practices, invest in safer portal transportation, or decide which model of rockets you use. The only "choice" you have is whether or not to start the apocalypse, and it's more or less expected that you will.
I'm not bringing this up because I think the developer intended for people to think about what playing this game might say about them. But I think it offers a lot more insight into the human mind than a lot of other games do. For all it's crazy shenanigans, the core of the game is extremely real. To me, that's terrifying.
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