Who Clicked My Bones?

The premise carries most of the appeal here, and it's a genuinely good one: raise a skeleton army, throw them at raids to earn Souls of the Dead, and use those souls to summon the Lich King — all while the game keeps reminding you, with a straight face, that skeletons who are already dead probably don't mind being sacrificed for the cause. Who Clicked My Bones? is short by design, with the store page stating around four hours to see it through, and everyone in its small review sample agrees the tone lands. Where they stop agreeing is almost everything else.

Spawn, sacrifice, upgrade, repeat

The loop is straightforward: populate your skeleton army, sacrifice portions of it on raids for currency, spend that currency upgrading the army to be worth sacrificing at a larger scale, and work toward unlocking more than ten skeleton types along the way. It's a familiar incremental shape — grow a resource, spend it to grow faster — dressed in a dark-comedy skin distinctive enough to stand out from the genre's usual fantasy or sci-fi wallpaper. Achievement names alone give a sense of the escalation on offer: first_scout, first_acolyte, first_warrior, first_mage, first_deathknight, working up toward first_lichking and a full-completion max_special_skeleton achievement.

Global completion data suggests this structure holds together for most buyers who stick with it: 58.9% of players reach the Lich King ending, and even the toughest late-game achievement sits at 38.8% — a strong curve for a game this size, and one that argues against the idea that players are broadly bouncing off early.

Two reviews, one game, opposite conclusions

The most interesting thing about Who Clicked My Bones? right now isn't in the game itself — it's in how starkly two of its six reviews disagree about the same specific claims. One, posted 19 July, argues there are "no meaningful choices in the skill tree," that small skeletons "become useless very quickly due to raid size," and describes the game dropping to a crawl and eventually crashing after being left running for an hour in the background. Another review, dated the same day, makes the mirror-image case point for point: the skill tree offers "highly meaningful choices at every step," small skeletons "remain useful throughout an entire run regardless of raid size," and the game ran "perfectly smooth without a single frame drop" over a comparable background session, never crashing.

Both reviews are detailed and specific rather than vague, which makes the disagreement harder to wave away as one player simply being wrong. It's possible different hardware, settings, or save states produced genuinely different experiences; it's also possible one account is more representative than the other. This review has no way to determine which, and reports the dispute directly rather than picking a side. What can be said is that a specific, detailed performance complaint exists in a sample this small, and it deserves to be weighed by anyone considering the purchase — alongside the equally specific claim that no such problem exists at all.

A separate complaint, unconnected to the performance dispute, comes from a reviewer who says the game offers "no interesting choices or paradigm shifts" and that reaching 100% completion took "a fart's width over an hour" rather than the roughly four hours the store page describes. Taken alongside the achievement data, this looks less like an outlier and more like a real range in how quickly different players burn through the available content.

Final verdict

Who Clicked My Bones? has a joke worth buying into — a skeleton army that genuinely doesn't seem to mind being repeatedly sacrificed for your ambitions — and at just over three dollars, even its critics generally agree the price is fair for what's there. What keeps this score modest is a review sample that's small, currently majority-negative, and includes a specific, unresolved dispute about whether the game runs well and whether its central skill tree actually matters. Buy it for the premise and the low price, not for a confident promise about how deep or how stable the systems underneath it will turn out to be on your machine.

Players looking for a much longer, more stable version of "keep raising an army and getting stronger" may also want to look at Wanderer.