Cake5 vs Terraforge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cake5
Embark on a cosmic baking adventure to recover a stolen sweet taste. Explore magical ovens across the universe, solve puzzles, and help a team of bakers complete their mission. Compete with friends and unlock new challenges.
- Simple and intuitive cake-baking gameplay
- Hundreds of challenging levels
- Special Devil Levels for skilled players
- Compete with Facebook friends
- Send power-ups and gifts to friends
- Mission mode with progress tracking
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Get Ready to Challenge Your Limits of Reflexes with a Both Sweet and Enjoyable Cake Baking Game 〈Cake 5〉! Cake5 team members need your help! CC, GBM, Taro, Brownie, and Rainbow - have been sent on a mission far from home by the Sweet Queen and Dr. Puff to find the lost sweet taste that's gone missing from the Sweet Planet. Help the Cake5 team explore the Universe and visit magic ovens on distant worlds, asking them for clues and fragments of the magic recipe stolen from Sweet Planet by the Crystal Fox. Help Cakes complete their mission and find the sweet taste. ---------------------------------------------------------- FEATURES: •Simple game play and new-player friendly •Hundreds of challenging levels in Cake5 Space Adventure •Extra Devil Levels to challenge skillful players •Compete with your Facebook friends •Send Cake5 powerups to friends and family ---------------------------------------------------------- EASY TO PLAY: Tap to bake cakes! Gather cakes in the correct boxes when they're done baking. Drag to dress cakes or put them in the right boxes. Swipe to join three cakes in a row to make an angel cake. The more angel cakes you make, the higher the score. MISSION MODE: 100 levels with more to come. Help Cakes complete their mission requirements and face each oven's dangers. Track your progress on the mission map. MUSIC & DEVIL LEVELS: Hardcore players can win more power-ups and coins in the Devil Levels Forest or Deep Space Music Challenge. USE YOUR SOCIAL NETWORK: Invite your Facebook friends and send gifts to your existing social network. Ask friends for extra life or power-ups by using the "ask" feature. Send them power-ups and gifts when they need them. ;) RANKING: Compete and share your progress with friends on the mission map and on your Facebook wall. ---------------------------------------------------------- USEFUL TIPS: •Angel cakes give you power-ups to help you on difficult levels. •Make angel cakes quickly. More wings = higher score. •Sorting cakes of the same type first makes it easier to make more angel cakes. •On space levels, summoning Alien Dog's ship will turn all cakes in the oven into angel cakes. ---------------------------------------------------------- Official Website: www.cake-5.com Facebook Club: https://www.facebook.com/Cake5.fans.US.Canada
Terraforge
Combine basic elements like Fire, Water, Air, and Earth to discover new ones, progressing from simple creations to complex concepts like Dragons, Galaxies, and the Universe. Solve over 260 recipes, track your progress in a personal grimoire, and unlock milestones as you master the art of creation.
- Element combination and discovery
- Over 260 recipes to find
- Personal grimoire to track discoveries
- Milestones to celebrate progress
- Offline play
- iCloud progress sync
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Start with Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. End with Dragons, Galaxies, and the Universe itself. Every discovery begins with one question: what happens if I mix these two? Drag elements together and watch mud become life, life become civilization, and civilization become legend. 208 ELEMENTS. ONE STARTING POINT. Begin with four primordial elements and forge your way through 13 tiers of discovery. Combine Lizard and Fire to create a Dragon. Mix Day and Night to unlock Time. Strap a Human to a Rocket and launch an Astronaut. Every recipe makes sense — and every discovery feels earned. 266 RECIPES TO FIND From intuitive first steps (Water + Earth = Mud) to legendary breakthroughs (Knight + Dragon = Hero), each combination is a puzzle waiting to be solved. Six rarity tiers — from Primordial to Legendary — reward your curiosity with increasingly spectacular effects. YOUR GRIMOIRE AWAITS Track every discovery in your personal grimoire. Browse 16 categories from Nature and Mythical to Space and Pop Culture. Tap any element to read its story, see its recipes, and discover what it creates next. 31 MILESTONES Your journey has chapters. Create your first Plant. Discover a Dragon. Build an Empire. Each milestone celebrates your progress — from "Welcome to forging, apprentice" to "You have mastered creation itself." EVERY DISCOVERY IS A CELEBRATION Common elements sparkle. Rare ones send shockwaves. Legendary discoveries shake the screen and rain gold. Ambient crystalline tones and rarity-scaled sound effects bring every combination to life. MASTER FORGER UPGRADE One purchase. Yours forever. Unlock recipe hints for undiscovered elements. All future content included. No subscriptions. Play offline. Sync progress across devices with iCloud. Combine. Discover. Create everything from nothing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Terraforge at every 3 weeks against Cake5's every 4 months. Terraforge also leads on ratings volume (25 vs 3). Cake5's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Cake5 sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Terraforge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Cake5 against 4.8 for Terraforge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Terraforge has 25 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cake5 ships an update every 4 months, Terraforge every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cake5 | Terraforge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 25 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WHALE PARTY CO., LTD. | JOSE ANTONIO MARTINEZ FERNANDEZ |
Customer experience
Cake5
Terraforge
In-app purchases
Cake5
- Big Basket Pack$0.99
- Time Extend Pack$0.99
- Rainbow Gliding in the Clouds$0.99
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- Cupcake Fast Ver.$0.99
- Cupcake$0.99
- Pile of Coins$1.99
- Burn Shield$1.99
- Bag of Coins$2.99
- Ruby x 10$2.99
- Rubies x 25$5.99
Terraforge
- Master Forger$6.99









