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Cupcake Detective – Family Game Review
Cupcake Detective is a Family/Education game from Maverick Software LLC, first launched in 20th June 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 55+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Cupcake Detective 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 Retina display graphics and full support for the tall iPhone 5 & iPod Touches.
- 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 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 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Cupcake Detective on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
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Great game, but Ive been struggling with Birds of a Feather from the pet shop fan case. We have rainbow batter, rainbow frosting, rainbow dots frosting, rainbow dots, and rainbow sprinkles. It says that its missing something, does anyone know what it is? Please help.
The main reason we love this game is because the food is realistic! Perfect app.
Best app ever!!!! No joke!!! If you're bored then this is PERFECT!!!!! :) Totally download.
Igbo people are just a few days ago when he was the first.
The only complaint we have is that we have never been able to get the daily cases, even though we've purchased the full version. Other than that, we love it.
This app is really fun to play we would recommend it to a friend.
This app is the best ever! Ever since we got it we've been making so much money on it and, we would so recommend this app to anybody of all ages.
This is the sweetest yummiest detective game EVER.
We think this game is awsome but we're not veray good at solving problems.we are going to rate this five stars beachside we are just not good at solving problems.
This game is really fun but some things can be hard.
No cupcake detective is actually a very good game and this review that showed up on this page was actually our review for more soup. We don't know how it showed up here. Although you should probably come back and update your apps because they're not going to work with the software the apples going to come out with.
We bought the full version because it is so fun to play and we wanted more. The Only thing wrong is that we can't do the daily cases. We love them but it says there is no connection when there is. Please help so we can play our favorite game.
This is one of our favorite apps. It's awesome and challenging, and if you don't want to do something hard, you can do the orders in the mailbox. The only problem is, sometimes it gets glitchy. For example, in on an order that needs grape jelly beans for a topping. We've tried it twice, (with the correct topping) and both times it said it was the wrong topping. This has been occurring for most of the times we have played and is getting a little frustrating because we end up having to do every single recipe twice! Please fix bug! Everything is is awesome though.
This is one of the reviews that can't be like one sentence. Cupcake detective is challenging but fun. We also can't find any bugs. We love baking and this is something that is fun and is in a way relatable to a baker. Loved this game and definitely worth the wait to download. But here is the reason we rated it a 4 star. It took SO LONG to download . We would check and check by it would have made any progress. It is a fun game but the download took so long we got our first wrinkle before we got to play it. Jk. But it did take a strangely long amount of time to install.
We just might buy the full version! We love it! Great mystery and who doesn't love cupcakes.
Love this game!!! Make more like it!!! ASAP.
Fabulous we love it but the clues don't help why is there hints and clues.
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We love cupcakes. We love this game. We can't stop playing. K thnx bye.
This game is pertty cool we play the game a lot now we can't cuz we need fool version.
You made to things we like and put them together. Cupcakes and mystery games we hope you make more games like this. Awesome so addictive. The candy bowl is a confetti cupcake with rainbow dots icing topped with candy prices.
We have never played before! Hope it's fun.
We love this game we play it all the time . We wish u would add more cake batter ,filling,frosting ,topping . Please u think it would be a lot better game if u did.
We play this game it's soooo fun and addicting! Great puzzle solving game.
We hade this game for an hour and finish it in a hour and we want more cases cause its fun but we don't want the full version cause it is to much but other wise a great game.
Cupcakes and mystery! What more do we have to say.
It's fun but we're having trouble with the starlight, star bright case. We know we have to put star gummies on it but what is the 'cosmic frosting'? It's getting us frustrated.
Awesome app. Needs to be more accessible with voice-over though.
Great game but we have been having a problem with the filling and it is really annoying because now we can't solve any cases.
This app seems to be a lot like More Cupcakes! It is pretty boring so don't buy the full version.
It's fun but it won't let us add the filling.
It's a cute game and really fun until they make you pay for it to play more challenges. Maybe it's just us, but we're not going to pay for a cupcake crime solving game.
No matter how much frosting we put on. We can't get it to check off on the card! It's goo otherwise.
This game is cute. Unfortunately we found it paralyzingly glitchy. The Fillings do not work at all, and the Tastings often think that you are missing something that you actually did put in the cupcake. Frustrating. Bummer.
Can't find out how to do filling very complicated or broken.
More toppings and frosting please.
We love this app! Once we get more money, we're going to get the full version. It's worth the money.
Can someone help us with the Maltese Bunny please. #iluvthisgame.
Good game for noticing details, problem solving. Send in more cases to solve, please. The candy bowl is the M&M type candy but don't use any brown ones.
This game is really fun but There are a couple downsides: 1. You have to get the full version to make your own mystery 2. You have to get the full version to complete all the levels! So what we are saying is, why do you have to pay for the the full version just to unlock more levels! It's totally unfair.
We think that this app is great but paying two dollars just to unlock some cases and Locking some of the cases on the cupcake board that is rude.
We love this game and the mystery's are fairly easy, sometimes a little challenging but overall very well thought over. The only issue we have with this game is that to unlock the rest of the mystery's it's $2.00 and really? Two dollars? It's fun but its not worth 2 dollars for a little extra.
We love this game, but unlock more stupid cases!!!!!! We mean seriously, paying$1.99 for just a couple cases!!?!?!? Come on, Maverivc Software, you can do better.
We don't get how you put in the filling we spent over an hour trying to figure it out please help.
It's not that we don't like it because it is hard; we love a good brain puzzle. But we never know what they want? It is very vague…. #TheStruggleIsReal.
Such a fun game! It is challenging but so much fun.
It was really fun… But we finished it in a day and the rest was the full version! But still, BEST GAME EVER.
We must say, we adore all things cupcakes, especially the Cupcakeroo app. However, we were deeply disappointed when we eagerly downloaded this app to find that there is no wiggle room for creativity. Our cupcake was rejected because it had raisins, then because of blackberries. The theme was PB&J; who has not heard of peanut butter with raisins in it!? And in jelly not made from berries!? Heaven forbid we had put cinnamon on it. Wouldn't want some FLAVOR on the cupcake, or some VARIETY! Sorry if we got a little carried away; we take our cupcakes quiet seriously. We hope the makers of this app with highly consider some creative leniency in their updates.
We mean its not horrible it's entertaining for a while but it's HARD and kinda confusing after a while you probably will regret getting it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5
- Size: 54.80 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Maverick Software LLC]()
Last updated: 15th November 2014 | Genre: Family, Education | Developer: Maverick Software LLC