Cake Mania 3 Review: Sugar Sweet Addicting iPhone Game

If you’ve ever played the game Diner Dash, you will probably enjoy the iPhone game Cake Mania 3. Instead of playing a waitress, you play a baker of cakes in various fantastical historical places.

You play the character Jill Evans, who is trying to prepare for her wedding. A time bender breaks, and her friends and family are sent back in time to various points in “history.” Each set of levels takes place in a different place and point in history. You must make cakes of various complexities and make enough money as a bakery to free each friend or family member.

The fast-pace levels are easy to play, with simple tapping to make, frost, and give cakes to customers. There are also small treats that can be given the customers to keep them happy, as well as tea, coffee, and cocoa that customers can order. Each level requires you to make a certain amount of money at the bakery to advance to the next level. You can replay a level as many times as necessary to reach the required monetary goal. There is a “Super Bakery Level” of money above the minimum for each level as well. Your progress through each era of history is marked by a path of blue stars for making the minimum level of money or red stars for “Super Bakery Level” of money.

There is also a challenge game where you just play through one location until the bakery doesn’t reach its goal for that level. This is essentially a mini game of the overall game, where you only play path of levels until you don’t reach the monetary goal or that level. Your score can be uploaded to an online site, which opens in mobile Safari. You must register for the site before your score can be uploaded.

The game is easy to play, and very addicting. However, if you get interrupted mid-level by a phone call or needing to exit the app, your progress for that level is not saved. The next time you open the game, you can begin at the beginning of the last level you were playing. Also, the game is very resource intensive, and lags slightly on startup, close, and if interrupted by a phone call.

Cake Mania 3 is on sale for $4.99 right now, so enjoy playing this fun, addicting game.

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