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Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake

Warning: This game is crammed full of monsters, cake, amazing powers, puzzly bits, epic adventure, witty repartee, secret paths, unlockable characters, silly hats and a wiener dog. Use caution if you are allergic to fun or overly sensitive to cake-related pathos.

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Developer
SleepNinja Games
Publisher
Cartoon Network Games, Moonlight Kids
Release
July 1, 2014
12 years and 35 days ago
Steam Reviews
Very Positive128 reviews97.7%

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About the Game

As so many of these things do, it all begins on a magical island. In this case, Gogapoe Island, a place populated by both humans and monsters. What starts out as a mission to get back Niko's birthday cake becomes a quest for the fate of Gogapoe itself. But, ya know, cake is still super important, too!

Oodles of friendly monsters will join Niko's quest and use their kooky powers to help him explore the island, solve puzzles, demolish obstacles, and just generally humiliate enemies. Hordes of evil monsters will cause mayhem and generally be jerkfaces, but that's nothing you can't fix with headbutts, frost breath, stink clouds and rainbow barf.

Save the day and fulfill your monstrous cakelust all at once in MONSTERS ATE MY BIRTHDAY CAKE!

Key Features

  • A big honkin' island to explore
  • An epic story of good, evil and baked goods
  • Nostalgic top-down adventure gameplay mixed with modern sensibility and design
  • 60 sweet minutes of original music by Disasterpeace. It's like dessert for your ears!
  • A motley menagerie of friendly monsters with nutso powers
  • Four unique areas full of challenges, secret paths and birthday cake
  • Cerebrum-tingling environmental puzzles
  • A whole mess of oddball NPCs with with even odder side quests
  • Funky fresh costumes you can unlock for Niko, including some that give him powers of his own
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