Cake Mania Main Street Demo

There are certain tricks game developers use that seem to work every time as intended, in the sense that they always appeal to a wide variety of people. Hence, even if the mechanics never change and you feel like playing the same thing over and over again, the games are still fun and addictive, somehow. The time management genre is a serious offender in this regard, because most of them appear to use the same formula.

Cake Mania Main Street is a time management flick with a dash of cooking sim involved in the process, although you’ll be doing very little of that. Instead, your job is to serve customers in a timely fashion and make as much money as you can, in order to reestablish old business in your hometown and try to bankrupt a new supermarket that opened there and left everyone out of business.

There are multiple venues around town you can buy and restore, including restaurants and the like. Besides the fact that you can buy them and obtain profit from their production, it is also possible to actually work there yourself and take care of business personally. Thus, you have the option to flip burgers manually and decorate cakes in order to raise more money, although it’s not as easy as it sounds.

Just like in every other time management game such as this one, your goal is to keep track of every customer and serve them what they desire. You can take care of multiple things at once, although you need to concentrate and always be on top of the situation. In time, you can unlock upgrades and purchase better equipment for each venue, equipment that allows you to process more orders at once.

Each business can be upgraded when you have enough money, although the upgrades only affect the profit they bring back each week. In the long run, it probably pays to upgrade, but the initial cost makes it difficult to spend so much money on a tiny profit bump. Thankfully, you have a lot of things to occupy your time with, which makes it easier to keep playing when everything seems dull and uninteresting.

Even if  Cake Mania Main Street has its fair share of flaws and inconveniences, it’s still a pretty satisfying time management game, as long as you are a fan of the genre. Thus, the amount of content it offers is decent, and you can always try to beat your own high scores if you run out of things to do.