Take the Cake is a puzzle platformer developed for Linux and PC, released in 2017. Players guide Frank, a small creature known as the Friendly Furball, through 27 levels spread across five distinct environments as he attempts to recover his cake from a band of robotic thieves. Core mechanics revolve around color-changing abilities and realistic physics, with Frank able to inflate, manipulate gravity, and interact with a handmade rocket to navigate obstacles and solve puzzles. Boss encounters punctuate the progression. The game supports both keyboard and gamepad input, and a best-completion-time feature allows players to compare their runs against others. Notably, the entire narrative is conveyed without dialogue or written text. The visual style is colorful, and the level design varies considerably across the five environments, giving the relatively compact game some breadth in its challenges.
