ActionFit check
Is Take the Cake worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Puzzle-platformer fans who want physics and color-changing mechanics
- Players seeking a compact campaign with 27 levels across five environments
- Completion-time competitors who enjoy replaying levels for faster runs
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a long-form adventure may find the 27-level structure limited
- Those looking for combat-focused gameplay may find the puzzle and platforming emphasis restrictive
- Players who want a story delivered through dialogue or text may not fit the wordless presentation
Our take on Take the Cake
The defining structure is a 27-level puzzle-platforming campaign in which color changes and physics interactions shape progression, with Frank also jumping, inflating, bending gravity, operating a rocket, and confronting bosses.
What is Take the Cake?
Take the Cake is a puzzle platformer about Frank, a friendly furball trying to recover his stolen cake from robots.
Progress involves physics-based interactions, color changes, jumping, inflation, and gravity manipulation. Players navigate 27 levels spread across five environments, solve puzzles, avoid obstacles, operate a handmade rocket, and fight bosses. The game presents its story without spoken or written words and uses electronic music across neon-lit worlds. Keyboard and gamepad controls are supported. A best-time challenge lets players compete for completion times.
How Take the Cake plays
- 01Color-based abilities
- Changing Frank’s color forms part of the puzzle-solving mechanics.
- 02Physics puzzles
- Progress uses physics interactions alongside obstacles and environmental challenges.
- 03Five environments
- The campaign contains 27 levels distributed across five distinct settings.
- 04Boss encounters
- Boss fights appear as part of progression through the game.
- 05Time competition
- Players can compare completion times in a best-time challenge.
- 06Dual control options
- The game supports both keyboard and gamepad input.
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Take the Cake: platforms & release
Is Take the Cake worth it?
It is worth it if: puzzle-platformer fans who want physics and color-changing mechanics. Skip it if: players seeking a long-form adventure may find the 27-level structure limited.
Where can I download Take the Cake?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Take the Cake's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Take the Cake on?
Windows and Linux.
