Summary
They say that cooking is an art, but baking is a science. Despite all the warm, cozy, and comforting feelings we associate with baked goods, so much precision and accuracy goes into making that happen. Baking in real life is an ordeal that always ends up in a mess, and though game baking is cleaner, it has its challenges.
Every type of pastry and more has multiple steps with multiple tools and movements that can be completely ruined with the slightest error. At least baking games will give you a chance to start over instantly, and here are some of the best ones that rise to the occasion.
8Papa’s Pizzeria Deluxe
Have A Piece Of This
You can’t have pizza without baking, and Papa’s Pizzeria Deluxe gives you a crash course in baking a food that has kept gamers fed since before they were called gamers. Thisstylized little gamehas you playing as the new employee in Papa’s Pizzeria while Papa takes an extended leave of absence to do… stuff.
That leaves the future of the whole business in your hands, hopefully capable hands, as people come in to get their pizza. From the moment you take an order to the moment you hand off the pizza to the customer, you’ll be handling everything every step of the way.
7Lemon Cake
Just One Of The Possible Pastries
Some games are so cute and calming that you need to play them comfortably, and Lemon Cake is one of them. You’ve inherited a charming cafe in a small but active town of folks looking for warm drinks and tasty pastries. You’ll start with a few recipes and ingredients to get things started, but soon, you’ll be raking in the dough in more ways than one.
With all those profits, you can set up the backroom to produce all kinds of new and strange ingredients to make and bake the greatest of goods.
6Cinnabunny
The Baking Bunny
Bunnies are adorable, even when they’re action heroes, but that’s not the role the bunny in Cinnabunny has chosen. This little ball of fluff has decided to open up a bakery in the woods to pursue a life of baking. Thankfully, the bunny lives in a peaceful and vibrant area, meaning they’ll have access to all the fresh air and ingredients they’ll need.
Spend your days outdoors collecting what you need, then bring everything back for a long and thorough baking session. All those little forest critters will soon be coming to you for all their baking needs.
5Cake Bash
An Ultimate Cake-Off!
If television is to be believed, baking can be a high-stakes competition and battle for the top spot, which is what Cake Bash is also doing.This party gamehas you and others playing as one of several types of cakes to compete for the best cake.
Everyone wants a piece of everybody since that’s the only way to win. As fate would have it, many minigames and contests revolve around baking and sweets in some way. So, prove you’re the best cake by showing you know your cakes.
4Born Of Bread
A Doughy Hero Will Rise
The Paper Mario series of RPGs created a style of adventure that other games have followed to great success and challenge, like Bug Fables and Born of Bread. In this unusual journey, you control a dough or bread golem baked into being.
With nothing but a positive outlook, curiosity, and a thirst for adventure, you’ll guide this baking-based buddy as they travel to strange regions, befriend quirky allies, and battle a bounty of beasts. The more you journey, the stronger the golem will get through the experience and whatever valuables you give them.
3Moldbreaker: Rise Of The Loaf
Bake To Break
Baking can be a very serious, and only the best-baked goods will survive. Moldbreaker: Rise Of The Loaf is no exception. Despite the intensity of the title, you’ll be controlling a Breadapus: a mix between a loaf of bread and a platypus.
It’s as ridiculous as it sounds, and it’s determined to travel across a world of baking and mold. All the baking is in trouble due to the spread of the mold, but the Breadapus has the power to break it. As it progresses, the mold will get more intense, so you must strengthen and improve the Breadapus as much as possible.
2Cookie Clicker
Cookies Don’t Bake Without Clicking
Before baking games became more numerous, there wasCookie Clicker. It’s so simple: You click a cookie and get more cookies. Then, you spend the cookies you’ve clicked on ways to upgrade your clicking or get even more cookies.
You clicked a few times just for fun, but now, it’s two weeks later, you haven’t showered, and you’re collapsing the universe all for the sake of baking cookies. Even though you might not learn any tips and tricks about baking, Cookie Clicker will always be there to bake cookies for you… as long as you let it.
1Cooking Mama
A Series Of Culinary Challenges
Even though cooking games make up a sizeable chunk of the gaming market,Cooking Mamawas riding the tidal wave before it got big. This series follows a chibi mother as she embarks on a cooking odyssey to cook everything that she can and master all the techniques.
Among these techniques are various baking skills that will lead to the creation of breads and pastries, most notably cakes. When desserts were introduced, cakes became a list of recipes to bake. And since baking is a science, Cooking Mama expects perfection to get that dough on the rise.
