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2018 Ranked #3,010

Cupcake Empire

Bakery-building strategy game where competitors expand shops and manage creative employees to grow a cupcake business. Efficiency determines who can turn a small bakery into an empire, so every decision must build capacity while keeping pace with rival ambitions.

Strategy Games Dice Economic Worker Placement with Dice Workers Worker Placement

Players

2-4

Play time

45-60 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2.82/5

Rating

7.08

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Cupcakes are at the height of fashion in the city. It's the perfect time to expand your business.

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Cupcakes are at the height of fashion in the city. It's the perfect time to expand your business. Even though at the moment you only have one small Bakery, the dedication and the level of creativity of your employees means that there are no limits to your ambition.Your task will be no piece of cake since your competitors share your same goals and they are not going to make it easy for you. Only those who work the most efficiently and effectively will manage to build their own cupcake empire. Cupcake Empire is mainly a dice game. Your personal board represents your business and the dice your workers. In each of the columns of the board you can carry out one specific action; create new recipes for cupcakes, open new stores, serve customers, hire new workers, etc. On each turn you will have to decide which column you are going to activate, taking into account that the more dice there are and the more specialized they are, the more effective the action will be. Through these actions you will increase your level of sales and production, trying to get them to grow in equal measure since at the end of each of your turns your Income will increase by the amount indicated by the marker that is the furthest behind i.e. that has made the least progress.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
45–60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Al Leduc Yves Tourigny

Artists

2
Amanda Duarte David Prieto

Publishers

1
Ludonova

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