STAFF REVIEW of Cake Invaders (Xbox One)


Thursday, February 10, 2022.
by Peggy Doyle

Cake Invaders Box art I love cake! Things I never thought I’d use to start a review, but here we are. Do you love cake as much as I do? Would you risk your life for cake? I certainly wouldn’t but the cute little characters in Cake Invaders will do exactly that. They will put their lives on the line to defend their German cake (Baumkuchen) from the alien invaders. Aliens are welcome to visit the planet anytime, but if they come for the cake, it’s war!

Developed by ZOO Corporation and Eastasiasoft Limited, this is a simple, casual arcade shooter. Cake Invaders has a delightful retro aesthetic and punchy soundtrack. It reminds me of Space Invaders and is equally addictive to the game I spent a fair amount of time in my youth playing.


With a fixed screen perspective and no character movement, this is a very easy game to play once you got used to the finicky aiming. The skills required boil down to shoot, shoot, and shooting some more. Kill those alien fish! As it’s an easy game to play you can quickly move through the achievements as well. Approximately 30 - 45 minutes and I had them all. There is only one game mode and it got a bit repetitive quickly. There isn’t much there to entertain you for more than an hour or two unless you want to get really competitive and try to climb the online leaderboards.


Cake Invaders story makes no sense, and that’s perfectly fine with me. You start off as one gunner standing on top of the middle cake of five on the screen. Aliens stream in from various locations on the screen in waves and your goal is to not let them destroy your cake. For each hit, one layer of cake is removed. Each cake has three layers, meaning you have fifteen hits before the game is over. When you die, you start from wave one again.

Weapon and skill upgrades are random drops, meaning sometimes you get lucky and get an extra gunner on your team, and other times you’re unlucky and just get a different style of weapon. The different ammo types didn’t really seem to have much of a different affect on the aliens. The extra gunners, up to five total, were extremely beneficial and were really the only way of getting to higher waves. With five gunners you are almost unstoppable. After wave fifteen, the speed of enemies really ramps up and it became a bit more exciting and stressful trying to survive.


Cake Invaders is delightfully retro and took me back to my Atari Space Invaders days. It’s a quick game to jump in and play and put back for another day. Keep checking the online leaderboards, if that’s your thing, to make sure you’re not being passed, completely reminiscent of the time spent in arcades making sure you were still showing on the main screen. I went back to play a few more times to get another nostalgia fix and was good for putting a smile on my face. I was slightly disappointed in the soundtrack though, something I am normally drawn to in retro games. While functional, it didn’t really stand out and could have been pulled from almost any other game.

In conclusion, Cake Invaders was cute, nostalgic and an achievement hunters dream. Really quick to get the 1000 gamerscore, if that is something you like to do. At the time of writing, Cake Invaders was on sale for just over $6 CAD, and I think it’s a fair price for it. Now off to find some cake.

**Cake Invaders was provided by the publisher and reviewed on an Xbox Series X**




Overall: 6.5 / 10
Gameplay: 6.5 / 10
Visuals: 7.0 / 10
Sound: 6.0 / 10

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