Comparison

Cake5 vs Terraforge

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Element combination and discovery
  • Over 260 recipes to find
  • Personal grimoire to track discoveries
  • Milestones to celebrate progress
  • Offline play
  • iCloud progress sync
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Cake54 screens
Terraforge4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cake5 versus Terraforge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCake5Terraforge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)4.8 (25 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings325 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWHALE PARTY CO., LTD.JOSE ANTONIO MARTINEZ FERNANDEZ

Customer experience

Cake5

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive74.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.8%

Terraforge

All ratings25 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cake5

One-time10
  • Big Basket Pack$0.99
  • Time Extend Pack$0.99
  • Rainbow Gliding in the Clouds$0.99
Show 7 more
  • 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
1 purchases

Terraforge

One-time1
  • Master Forger$6.99

Questions

Is Cake5 free?
Cake5 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Terraforge free?
Terraforge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cake5 or Terraforge?
Terraforge is rated higher. Cake5 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Terraforge averages 4.8 from 25 ratings.
Do Cake5 or Terraforge have ads?
Neither Cake5 nor Terraforge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cake5 or Terraforge?
Cake5 ships an update every 4 months, and Terraforge every 3 weeks. Most recently, Cake5 was updated on October 23, 2026 and Terraforge on October 15, 2026.

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