A complete beginner's guide: How to play Love & Pies

Love & Pies is a cozy merge game following the culinary adventures of Amelia, a recent divorcée who comes home to find her mother’s famous café in ruins. Throughout the game, she’ll return the restaurant to its former glory, solve the mystery of her mother’s disappearance, and perhaps even find romance along the way. 

Though untangling Amelia’s life is satisfying, nothing beats earning real-life rewards. With Mistplay, you don’t have to choose between the two. Download Love & Pies through Mistplay¹, rack up points as you progress through the story, and trade them in for gift cards from your favorite brands, like Amazon and Visa. 

Ready to get started? Read on to learn how to play Love & Pies and discover helpful tips for spending energy wisely.

What’s Love & Pies?

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Love & Pies is a merge game, meaning you combine ingredients to form new culinary confections, blissful beverages, and delightful decorations. Every customer who visits your café wants one or more dishes, and serving them earns you coins to spend unlocking the story.

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In addition to making food for hungry guests, you’ll also steadily rebuild the café. Select from one of three different styles each time: classy boutique, retro diner, or rustic cottage. You can mix and match these styles freely to create your dream café, which might attract the attention of a dreamboat or two, too.

How the game works

Once you dive into this title, you’ll see there’s more to it than just merging bags of flour. Let’s explore the specifics of how the game works.

The core gameplay loop

Love & Pies’ core gameplay experience involves:

• Tapping generators like grocery bags and drink trays to create new ingredients
• Merging ingredients to serve customers and earn coins
• Spending coins to complete tasks and earn experience

It only takes a few orders to get enough coins to complete tasks, so you’ll often get at least one done per session. After you complete enough tasks, the next day begins, introducing new characters or clues for Amelia’s investigation.

Board management

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Efficient organization makes it easier to track and merge your ingredients. Place all the items you aren’t using to one side, leaving open space for all the ingredients you need. And whenever possible, merge food into the buried slots to open up more space on the board.

Special orders

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Love & Pies special orders are important moments in the story in which Amelia has to do special tasks. Completing them gives you pets, decorations, and other accoutrements for your café.

Progression and levels

Love & Pies uses days to mark each story chapter, with new days added every other week. Currently, there are over 150 days in Love & Pies, each offering a new slice of Amelia’s story. As you progress, you’ll unlock new ingredient generators or receive valuable currencies like gems and energy. 

How to play Love & Pies: Step-by-step guide

Most of your gameplay in Love & Pies takes place on your café board, where you combine ingredients to fulfill orders. Here’s how to play:

• Check the order: Click the icon under each customer to see which ingredients you need to combine to fulfill their order.
• Generate ingredients: Tap the grocery bag or drink tray to create the ingredients you need. Each tap costs one energy.
• Merge ingredients: Drag matching ingredients together until you create the items you need to fulfill an order.
• Serve the customer: Select the “Serve” button next to the customer to fill their order and earn coins.
• Complete the pending task: Once you have enough coins, spend them to complete tasks, like meeting new characters and renovating the café. 

Tips to save energy and progress faster

To get the most out of every session, you want to spend as little energy as possible while still fulfilling each order. This tactic saves energy for even more tasks down the line. Here are a few tips to make this easier:

• Check ingredients: See which ingredients are required to create the customer’s order. This tells you how many times to tap the generator. Say you want to make one piece of pie. You’ll need to click the grocery bag four times to create enough apples for the slice. 
• Store mid-level items in your fridge: Some orders call for multiple mid-level items. Save a few in your fridge so you can clear those orders, making room for more lucrative high-level orders.
• Level up generators: Spend your free gems on generators, not ingredients. Upgrading generators increases their chances of creating higher-level ingredients, so improving them saves you more energy in the long run.
• Sell bubble items for coins: The coins you get for selling bubble items add up fast, reducing how many orders you need to fill to start the next task.
• Merge currencies and chests: Merge gem, coin, and energy items to create larger stacks that award extra currency. And combine chests to form higher-level ones that contain better rewards.

All that said, try to avoid optimizing the fun out of the game. Playing Love & Pies is a relaxing activity, and it shouldn’t feel like a chore. Give yourself permission to relax and enjoy the journey.

How to get Love & Pies free energy

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Energy is the main resource you’ll spend to complete orders in Love & Pies, so picking it up for free can help you make the most of each session. Your account will passively generate one energy every two minutes, even when the game is closed, but here are a few other ways to get it for free: 

• Leveling up: Some levels reward crates filled with extra energy.
• Events: Limited-time events like Edwina’s Cash Dash reward energy for hitting certain thresholds. 
• Merge energy items: When you get energy items on your board, merge them together to generate extra energy.
• Watch ads: You’ll occasionally get offers to watch an ad to earn 15 energy.

Common myths about Love & Pies cheats

As popular as this game is, it’s no surprise that Love & Pies has its fair share of myths about cheat codes and secret strategies. Suffice it to say, there are no infinite energy glitches or shortcuts to special orders. Below are the most common misconceptions:

• Secret codes: There aren’t any cheat codes to fast-track your energy gain or reset your board.
• Third-party hacks: Love & Pies doesn’t support third-party mods or hacks, so view any apps claiming to offer free in-game items or currency with skepticism.
• Real money requirements: Though you can make-in app purchases in Love & Pies, you don’t have to. The game rewards frequent playtime with more than enough energy and currency to make every session productive.

Making casual play more rewarding with Mistplay

Love & Pies is a great example of a game that’s better with Mistplay. It’s a casual title you spend a few minutes on throughout your day. And if you launch it through Mistplay, you’ll turn those spare minutes into redeemable gift cards for retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Chipotle. 

How Mistplay fits into relaxing merge games

Mistplay helps you turn idle relaxation into gift cards, so you can enjoy gaming guilt-free. Play your favorite merge games, try new titles, and reach in-game milestones to earn rewards. 

Why Mistplay appeals to everyday players

Mistplay offers a curated storefront with dozens of free games you might enjoy. If you run out of energy in Love & Pies, or you feel like trying something new, you can always hop into the Mistplay app to find your next new favorite title. 

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FAQ

Are there cheats for Love & Pies?

No, there are no legitimate cheats for Love & Pies. It’s a well-designed game without exploitable glitches, shortcuts, or cheat codes. While there are ways to progress faster, they all require playing the game as it’s meant to be played.

How many levels are in Love & Pies?

Currently, Love & Pies has over 150 days, which function as levels. New days are added every other week, extending Amelia’s story with fresh tasks to do and characters to meet. 

What’s the story of Love & Pies about?

Love & Pies is about what’s truly important in life: love, family, and baked goods. You play as Amelia, a single mother who returns home to find her mother’s café burned to the ground. She embarks on a personal quest to rebuild the café and find her missing mom. Along the way, she connects with her daughter, learns the value of taking initiative, and meets a shirtless fireman or two.