Save the Pie!!

Grandma bakes the best pies in town. The problem is the bugs.

Flies, cockroaches, ants and slugs head straight for the crust, and the only thing standing between them and dessert is you. Tap to squash them before they get there. Every bug that slips through ruins a little more of the pie: when purity hits zero, it is over.

Twelve levels across story and arcade modes, bosses that take more than one tap, and settings that run from the kitchen window to the bakery oven. Every recipe in the game is real.

The game

Save the Pie!! main menu — The main menu

Level select: the first ones unlocked, the rest still to open — Twelve levels to unlock

Grandma leaves a note before heading into town — Grandma heads into town and leaves instructions

The pie cooling on the windowsill, purity at 100 — The pie cooling on the windowsill

A swarm of bugs dropping onto the pie — When they all come at once

A boss: it takes more than one tap — Bosses take more than one tap

The tablecloth level, with ants closing in on the pie — Ants on the tablecloth

The bakery: oven, ingredients and recipe — The bakery, with oven and recipe

A second life

Save the Pie!! first came out in 2012, under the studio’s old name, and spent years out of circulation. The project folder was long gone: all that was left was the game installed on a phone.

We rebuilt it from there. We recovered the 234 original sprites and 19 sounds, remade it on modern Android and added what it was missing: a story mode, twelve levels, a leaderboard and a new interface. Same game, same insufferable bugs.

Platform: Android 7 or later
Price: Free, no ads and no in-app purchases
Modes: Story and arcade, 12 levels
Languages: Eight languages
Connection: Works offline
Data: Collects no personal data
Studio: Quarantine Interactive