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Cake Invaders

If you’re looking for dumb fun where all you want to do is blast some aliens then I’d highly recommend Cake Invaders.
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54%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
Most mentioned negative aspects:story
82% User Score Based on 11 reviews
Critic Score 65%Based on 2 reviews

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About Cake Invaders

Cake Invaders is a single player survival shooter game with fantasy and science fiction themes. It was developed by Zoo Corporation and was released on June 3, 2021. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and positive reviews from players.

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Reviews

82%Audience ScoreBased on 11 reviews
gameplay3 positive mentions
story3 negative mentions

  • Cute and charming pixel art with fancy music creates an enjoyable arcade shooter experience.
  • Short, fun, and simple gameplay ideal for casual play sessions and leaderboard chasing.
  • Includes a helpful NPC companion and score attack mode with leaderboards for competitive fun.
  • Limited content with repetitive endless mode and few enemy types leading to lack of depth.
  • Missing features such as local multiplayer, difficulty options, skill upgrades, and controller support.
  • Some gameplay inconveniences like no auto-fire toggle, inability to rebind shooting button, and repetitive backgrounds.
  • gameplay

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 62% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The gameplay of Cake Invaders features simple mechanics and controls, offering a fun and addictive shooting experience. Though relatively short, it provides satisfying replay value for players who enjoy quick, engaging sessions.

    • “The mechanics of Cake Invaders are very simple.”
    • “Worth a buy if you enjoy short but fun shooting gameplay.”
    • “Fun and addicting gameplay.”
  • music

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 33% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions

    The music in the game is generally praised for being beautiful and enjoyable, complementing the pixel art well. However, some users find it repetitive over time, especially during the endless mode.

    • “Nice soundtrack.”
    • “The music is quite nice.”
    • “Beautiful music.”
    • “But the content is limited with one endless mode that gets repetitive pretty quickly and the music getting a bit repetitive over time.”
  • graphics

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 33% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions

    The game's graphics feature simple, cute pixel art that suits its arcade-shooter style. While visually modest, the graphics are appropriate for the game's price point and overall design.

    • “Cake Invaders is a very simple arcade-shooter game, with cute pixel graphics.”
    • “Pixel graphics.”
    • “Pixel graphics.”
    • “Pixel graphics”
  • story

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game lacks a traditional campaign or story mode, which may disappoint players seeking a narrative experience. Instead, the focus is more on gameplay mechanics rather than storytelling.

    • “There is no campaign or story mode.”
    • “Story concept is lacking; appears more like a novel reading experience than an engaging game narrative.”
    • “Story aspect is minimal or nonexistent.”
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Play Times

1h Median play time
1h Average play time
1-1h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 1 analyzed playthroughs
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Cake Invaders is a survival shooter game with fantasy and science fiction themes. Common tags for Cake Invaders include science, indie, score attack, 2d, aliens and others.

Cake Invaders is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5 and others.

On average players spend around 1 hours playing Cake Invaders.

Cake Invaders was released on June 3, 2021.

Cake Invaders was developed by Zoo Corporation.

Cake Invaders has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked Cake Invaders for its gameplay but disliked it for its story.

Cake Invaders is a single player game.

Similar games include Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender, Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax, The Bug Butcher, It came from space and ate our brains, Circuit Breakers and others.