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Cupcake Detective HD – Family Game Review
Cupcake Detective HD is a Family/Lifestyle game from Maverick Software LLC, first launched in 20th June 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 38+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Cupcake Detective HD Stand Out
Can you solve the cupcake mysteries and become the next great Cupcake Detective?
A new game from Maverick Software, creators of the original Cupcakes! app. Bake & decorate virtual cupcakes to help crack the cases!
Read the clues, try different frosting & toppings, solve each mystery and get promoted to higher ranks of detective. Earn cupcake bucks along the way by filling orders for your bakery, and use the bucks to buy hints from informants on those extra hard cases.
You get 60 mystery cupcakes in your case book and 45 fan suggested mysteries. And if that isn't enough, a new daily case every day adds three more mysteries to solve. You'll never get bored, with a new challenge every day!
TRY IT FREE, THEN UNLOCK ALL THE CASES FROM WITHIN THE GAME!
- Beautiful graphics & full support for all iPads, including iPad mini.
- 20 flavors of cupcakes, dozens of frostings, toppings, and fillings.
- Game Center leader boards to see who is the best Cupcake Detective!
- 17 detective ranks- solve mysteries to earn your badge and get promoted all the way to the top!
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Cupcake Detective HD is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th November 2014
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- iOS8 bug fixes
Download & Availability
Cupcake Detective HD is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Cupcake Detective HD on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is so awesome.it lets you figure out the cases pretty easily. Although it is pretty hard to figure out what they want but once you get a hang of it is pretty fun. If you want a hint all you have to do is take a order and it gives you a cupcake buck if you get the order right. You have to get 50 cupcake bucks to get a hit so it is pretty expensive.
We really like the game but you should lower the cost for hints.
We enjoy this app, it's fun to bake cupcakes and the graphics are great. We are noticing one glitch in this app though, when we try to finish cupcake orders, we can't get past the first level because even though we make the confetti cupcakes correctly, it still says we have it wrong. Please fix this.
It's fun and very hard at times, but it's awesome and keeps us busy! We luv it.
This app is so much fun! Im giving it four stars instead of five because we put in filling and we know we did and it says no filling so we cant solve the case.
T.T we put on the frosting and even double-frosted it… Yet It says we didn't put any frosting! What.
We love this app!! It makes us sooooo hungry for cupcakes.
We love it you solve mysteries you bake cupcakes you can even make YOUR OWN mysteries and share them with friends though it does not say what you can share them on our guess is Facebook and twitter and there is like cold cases and fan cases we don't get what it means by that and you can like be a normal cupcake shop and do an order for cupcake bucks to get a hint the game is great you should get it also you can do like the TOP mystery it is SO HARD. Anyways please get it you will LOVE it.
We love it but stop making them so hard please.
We love this game its soooooo fun but we cant figure out the warm kitty fuzzy kitty one its so hard.
We do not want to be mean but this game is kind of really boring!!! (And it's kind of hard!!!).
It's fun to bake to help out others because we love helping people .and we get to BAKE to do it.
What you do when you put the chocolate candies on the chocolate cupcake is you put the other colors but if there is brown then you undo.
Really need help. This is the only one we have left to get.
The way to do the chocolate malt challenge is with a regular chocolate cupcake and then put malted milk balls on top. No frosting.
The recess one bake a chocolate cupcake and top it with gummy worms, that's it! Also we need help with the chocolate malted on please help! It would really help if you would either make the hints a little cheaper with the cupcake bucks or make a cheat app for this app if you do we would be in LOVE with this app. Thanks.
But we need help on the billy one when he digs for worms . We've tried every single frosting with chocolate batter and with gummy worms on it. Can someone please help us.
We love this game! It's awesome! You get to make the cupcakes and when your done, they will test your cupcake and see if you have made the cupcake correctly. Awesome game! Get it right away.
Great game it is the best we always love to play.
Great game we are just confused on how to do the " candy bowl" case. Beside that, great game. Keep up the good work.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5
- Size: 54.54 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Maverick Software LLC]()
Last updated: 15th November 2014 | Genre: Family, Lifestyle | Developer: Maverick Software LLC