Cooking Fever: Restaurant Game

I’ve had this game for years and loved playing it. If not for the sudden bombardment of ads, I’d give 5 stars. I updated the app here recently to find out that the game now has ads. It never had ads before. I don’t mind watching ads to earn coins or diamonds, but don’t force me to watch them. Especially don’t go from having none for years to suddenly shoving them down my throat after every attempt at a level. If I didn’t win the level, I’m already frustrated and don’t need to be forced to watch an ad on top of it. Now, with that said I do completely understand the reason for ads, the developers need some kind of funding to continue to work to bring new content and bug fixes. So instead of making me watch one every single level, win or lose, give some incentive for watching like money and diamonds and let it be optional. People will be happy to choose to watch ads if they can earn money. If you really want to make money off ads, then let us earn diamonds to watch them. If you did that, I’d probably spend more time watching ads than playing the levels! I used to love playing but now the ads make me want to play a different game instead. I really hope you make some changes.

I enjoy this game but once you get to a far enough experience level, gems (necessary for making upgrades to complete levels) are harder to get, as more and more experience becomes necessary. Also, when the game has a promotion, the likelihood of winning gems in the “casino” lessens. These are all tactics the game developers use to try and get you to make in app purchases. $10 for 125 gems will only get you so far, when many of the necessary upgrades can cost 10-20 gems (Pizzeria) and new restaurants cost 25-50 gems. It can get very costly when this needs to be done over and over again to make progress. The only other option is to replay levels over and over again to gain experience. Additionally, some levels (Chinese restaurant), customers stop coming even if none have been lost because certain upgrades have not been purchased. Still a four star because it’s fun and the best time management game out there, but definitely designed to get you to pay, a lot. Get your wallets ready. Edit: I haven’t won a single gem since giving this a four start review - 5 days. So I’m going to edit to 5 stars and see what happens.

This was the first cooking game I downloaded. I loved it when I was playing the food court stage with the burgers and fries. I have since bought the pizza and Chinese restaurants. While I loved this game I’m the beginning, I agree with many others that it simply is too costly to get upgrades on equipment because the amount of gems needed is just too much, and the payoff is not enough. To upgrade your equipment (just to get 2 stars in a higher level) costs coins and 10-15 gems! I liked this game because, unlike some other cooking games (or mobile games in general), it doesn’t supply only a limited amount of lives to play and that you’d have to wait for the lives to replenish. I think that’s why upgrading the equipments, food, and restaurant are so costly, because the developers probably want people to play the levels over and over. I won’t say this game is bad but I will say that this game is not suited for my work lifestyle anymore. I want a game where I do spend effort on each level and revisit each level to earn more currency, but not to the point where I have to play the levels an x amount of times just to earn some measly coins and gems. The payoff is just not worth the time spent. I loved this game but I have moved on to another cooking game.

I just completed this game by earning all levels with 3 stars on all 26 restaurants in six months without spending any money. The game is fun to play and levels are easy to pass once you do your upgrades. The developer is right, you can play this game without spend any money, all you need is time and be patient (I mean during the days collect gems and also play same levels over and over again) Here is my tips to get gems. You can earn 2x15 gems from casino everyday (12 hours apart), Plus daily sign in. The restaurant I highly recommend to play over and over again is Corn dog Van on island. This restaurant is very relax to play (no pricey automated machine) and takes 3 minutes to finish level 40, but give you about 1040 XPs each time (need upgrade food price, tips and extra clients to max). So if you play 10 times, it will give you 7 gems every 30 minutes by level up. I collect at least 50 gems every day by doing above. The reason I give a 4 star is the upgrade are too pricey. Gems take long time to get. Also some “challenge” levels makes me a little frustrated. Overall this is a great game, fun to play, hope more restaurants are coming out soon.

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I love this game so much. It’s fun and has a really good concept with cool food and restaurants. That being said honest to goodness I’m so frustrated with the fact that it is nearly impossible to get gems unless I’m willing to sit and play over and over until I level up (which I’m not). If it wasn’t for the gems and the fact that everything is so pricey with gems I would 100% give this game 5 stars since it’s actually one of my favorite games. I just can’t get anywhere without gems since every stinking upgrade costs like 15 gems. A little note to the creators: people wouldn’t have to cheat the gems so much if you didn’t make them so necessary but at the same time so impossible to get. I’m not paying 100 dollars for a handful of gems that will only get me at most 3 restaurants with the upgrades of all the appliances, if that. It’s just not worth it to spend that kind of money on a game. It’s really sad too since I actually really really like this game just the gems ruin it for me. I really wish that the creators of this game would please just read over the reviews on their game and realize the main complaint in every single one of these comments is the stinking gems. Then they could fix the gem issue and make the game better. Until that happens I sadly have to delete the game the gems annoy me too much.