Creatures & Cupcakes

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group.

“Creatures and Cupcakes” can best be described as a cross between “Quacks of Quedlinburg” and “Zombie Dice” but for kids with more cupcakes.

Played by myself and Jack(7) on our recent trip to our local board game cafe “Creatures and Cupcakes” is a push-your-luck game where you each have an animal on all 4 tracks of the board with the goal of getting 2 of your 4 to the middle.

You draw cupcakes out of the bag aiming to get as many different as possible. You can keep going until you either decide to stop and then move your pieces or take another. If you draw 2 of the same you bust and do not get to move that turn. What is nice however is that you then get to take a potion of the busted colour which acts as insurance on a future turn and lets you put a matching token of the colour back in the bag rather than bust.

If you draw a purple cupcake you get to draw a card that acts a special effect eg move forward 2 spaces or gain some other ability.

Component quality is good but the colour choices are bizarre. the pink and orange cupcakes are very close and hard to distinguish. The pink track is oddly close to the purple and the pink cupcake colour wise and the meeples do not match the tracks which is equally annoying.

The art on the board is equally a bit uninspired and the cards actually have a fair amount of text on them for a simple children’s game.

Its a simple to understand push your luck game which we both thought was ok but to be honest there are much better examples of the genre available for kids(review of Quacks & Co.: Quedlinburg Dash coming soon)

Overall not a recommendation this time from me. There are much better games out there that fill a similar niche even for kids and the issues with the colours were enough to put us off.