Elly's Cake Cafe

Since it’s easier and easier to create sharp-looking video games nowadays, hundreds of titles flood the market every week, each one of which promises a new experience and more content than you can handle. Naturally, it’s difficult to find something truly original nowadays, since it’s a lot simpler to copy someone else’s design and change a few cosmetic things for a quick buck.

Elly's Cake Cafe is a colorful match-three game that does not advertise itself as the next best thing in the genre, yet it features a very enjoyable set of gameplay mechanics. Not only that, but the difficulty level increases steadily over the course of the adventure, which keeps you engaged without boring you with the same thing over and over again like most match-three games.

The goal is to sell your customers the desired cakes, and you do that by matching the type of cakes they are asking for. The underlying gameplay mechanics are the same you should be used to from other games in the genre, but you also have to pay attention to the objectives of each round if you want to pass the levels. Hence, sometimes it’s not enough to deliver all the cakes.

Every stage also features a maximum move limit, which means that the objectives must be completed in as few matches as possible. This encourages you to always look for possible combos, because it’s very difficult to be victorious if you only match three tiles at a time. In case combos are not possible at a particular point, you can also use power-ups to quickly score some points.

As for the graphics, they are about as colorful as you would expect from a match-three game about cakes. The artwork is very smooth and enjoyable, not to mention the fact that the cakes come in all sorts of varieties as well. The backdrops never really change that much, but the layout of the levels does, so you are constantly looking at different tile setups.

In the end, Elly's Cake Cafe may not be as addictive or as complex as Candy Crush, but it certainly nails it in regards to gameplay and the fun factor. The move limit can really put you to work sometimes, especially in the later stages.

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