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#monstercakes

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

Pretty simple game combination between 2048 and match-3 settings with awesome monster cakes. Put your monster cake in the good hole and combine them together to get higher monster cake. Combine them as high as you can and be on the top of the leaderboard!

What works
  • Easy and accessible puzzle gameplay
  • Extensive achievements and quick completion
  • Daily item drops for profile customization and trading
  • Low price with potential to recoup cost
  • Relaxing music and charming monster cake theme
Things to keep in mind
  • Repetitive and simple mechanics with limited depth
  • Tile placement can be imprecise causing frustration
  • No multiplayer or social gameplay
  • Lack of narrative or varied content
  • Some technical issues like occasional bugs and crashes

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Turbo Pug DX

  • ‎My Suika – Kyo’s Fruit Merge

  • Catch a Falling Star

  • Razortron 2000

  • Fruit Mountain

  • Nyan Cat: Lost In Space

  • How To Grow a Black Hole

  • RollScape

  • WAVESHAPER
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Catch a Falling Star

  • Behind Glass: Aquarium Simulator

  • Ding Dong XL
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Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Hover a dot for a screenshot preview, score, and top score gaps; click to compare in the panel on the right.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

#monstercakes: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Violence, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Competition, Idle.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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