Price: Free    Score: 7/10    Category: Games

Successful social game developer TeamLava have just released Bakery Story for iPhone and iPad, the next title in their popular Story series. Bakery Story follows on from app store chart toppers Restaurant Story, City Story and Farm Story, with the same basic winning formula.

Bakery Story lets players design and run their own pastry and coffee shop; you can bake sweets, cakes, cookies and more. As you progress through the game you gain experience points and level up which enables you to access new recipes, equipment upgrades and decorations to transform your little shop into the ultimate neighborhood hot-spot.

Visually, the game is great – the graphics are crisp and colorful, with a high level of detail in all of the illustrations. The controls are simple and easy to learn, you simply tap on a piece of equipment to select it, choose a recipe and then tap a few times to prepare the item – and then wait. Bakery Story, just like the other Story games before it, and Farmville before all of them – requires players to either wait out the 24 hour+ production clock on some dishes, or use ‘diamonds’ to speed up the process (which need to be purchased in-game). It’s not so much a criticism of Bakery Story in itself, but rather a limitation of the ‘free social game’ genre.

There are some items that only have 1-5 minute production times so players can still actually ‘play’ the game rather than just intermittently logging on to sell their goods and start the cycle again. If you don’t mind the waiting, Bakery Story is a fun and addictive game and you can enjoy it without spending any real money – it might just take you a little longer.

Bakery Story is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later





12 COMMENTS

  1. Hi Teamlava,

    I am using an andriod phone and there wasn’t any tab for wall and floor. Please advise.

  3. How can I write this symbols like the heart the cake the sun and so on?

    please help

  4. I do believe you have to update the game every week using a andriod phone. Just go to itunes store to update!

  5. Download “Emiji Free” from the app store and it will allow you to make those symbols! It is free and it only takes a few seconds to set up. Add me as a neighbor – taylor_rae

  6. My bakery has started crashing everytime it is opened and intermittently gives me an out of sync with server message. I have no updates available in the iTunes apps. Any thoughts? Love my bakery but I loose gifts and sometimes all my food when it crashes.

  7. I was up to level 28 on my game but have just had a new iPhone and the game has started again. Can I log into my storm ID or do I have to start again?

  9. i know my ipod touch needs to be fix so it might be earase the data but i dont wanna lose progress is there a computer game like this?

  10. How can you change the name of your shop??? Heeeeeelp please 🙂

  11. Hi i would llike to buy the diamonds but on my samsung galaxy it wont let you buy them, the add comes up all the time offering you to buy on a credit card, but alas i still only have one.
    please help, oh and sort the crashing out

  12. My friend and I both have this app, and I’m 8 lvls higher then her, but she has the Celebration cupcakes and I don’t. How do I get the celebration cupcakes?

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