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Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake cover art

Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake

SleepNinja Games · Cartoon Network Games · 2014-07-01

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jun 01, 2014 (iOS), Jun 01, 2014 (Linux), Jun 01, 2014 (Mac), Jun 01, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 01, 2014 (Android)

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.

Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake is an Adventure and Indie game released in 2014, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (98% of 131 reviews).

0
playing now
98%
positive of 131 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake is a game developed by American indie studio SleepNinja Games for the iPad, Android, Windows, and OS X platforms and published by Cartoon Network. It was released in June 2014. The art and animation was done by Justin Baldwin, the programming by Yori Kvitchko and Brandon Moreno, the writing by Alex Atkins, sound design by Jordan Fehr. the music by Rich Vreeland, who had previously done the soundtrack of Fez. Development was assisted by a Kickstarter campaign that began in January 2013, and a demo version was displayed at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo in October 2013. Aimed at younger gamers, the game has simple puzzles early on and about ten hours of gameplay.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 28,945 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.3k–7.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 131 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2018-12-20) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820142026Week of 2014-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 00:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $10.492015-09-26 — best price $7.992018-07-05 — best price $7.992018-11-01 — best price $7.992018-11-27 — best price $7.992019-01-04 — best price $7.992019-07-10 — best price $7.992020-07-09 — best price $7.992020-12-01 — best price $7.992021-01-05 — best price $7.992021-02-15 — best price $7.992021-07-08 — best price $7.992021-11-01 — best price $7.992021-12-01 — best price $7.992022-01-05 — best price $7.992022-07-07 — best price $7.992025-09-29 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $4.992026-05-18 — best price $3.992026-06-25 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-06-03 — 6 pageviews2026-06-07 — 2 pageviews2026-06-11 — 2 pageviews2026-06-15 — 4 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1 pageviews2026-06-23 — 1 pageviews2026-06-27 — 2 pageviews2026-07-01 — 1 pageviews2026-07-05 — 4 pageviews2026-07-09 — 3 pageviews2026-07-13 — 2 pageviews2026-07-17 — 4 pageviews2026-07-21 — 1 pageviews2026-07-25 — 6 pageviews2026-07-29 — 6 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 6 pageviews2026-08-14 — 4 pageviews2026-08-18 — 4 pageviews2026-08-22 — 7 pageviews2026-08-26 — 5 pageviews2026-08-30 — 3 pageviews2026-09-03 — 1 pageviews2026-09-07 — 3 pageviews2026-09-11 — 4 pageviews2026-09-15 — 3 pageviews2026-09-19 — 3 pageviews2026-09-23 — 5 pageviews2026-09-27 — 8 pageviews2026-10-01 — 1 pageviews2026-10-05 — 3 pageviews2026-10-09 — 0 pageviews2026-10-12 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
47.9%
earned "Chill, I Got This"
20.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish

Player tags

CuteIndiePuzzleAdventureSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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