Lemon Cake
Fair · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 14.5h
- Value
- $1.03/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX660, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
Restore an abandoned bakery and prepare pastries from farm to table! Grow fresh ingredients in the greenhouse, cook pastries & sweets in the kitchen and serve your baked goods to hungry customers in your own shop!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.49, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 43 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Farm Together 2 ($25.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Sword and Fairy Inn 2 ($4.99, scores 0).
11 of the 514 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 218 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Just kind of tedious to play. The gameplay loop isn't great and it's fun for maybe 15 minutes. It really does feel like a grinding simulator more than anything else. The upgrades and the stuff you can unlock just aren't fun.
Similar to a lot of comments, I would rate this around 3.5/5 I've played all kinds of games, and I've been too frustrated by early grinding to feel cozy, not to mention that upgrading costs require multiple game days since you do not have an assistant until mid-late game, and it's really expensive. The physics mechanism for running makes it hard to reach what you need, and the fact that the serving space, kitchen...
Very cute looking game but makes you grind a lot to progress. The storyline is short and light with the main focus being on the gameplay loop of earning money to upgrade the bakery and unlocking new recipes as you go. If you are looking for a casual and very repetitive restaurant management sim, this is for you.
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Cite this score
Lemon Cake scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1338330/lemon-cakeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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