Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game

Sarah Jackson

1 year ago

I played this game a few years ago and redownloaded it recently, and it seems they've fixed a LOT of the balance issues. I've made it considerably far and not spent a penny. Even though you're constantly pelted with opportunities to spend money, the game isn't pay-to-win if you're willing to take the time to pass the levels. Would recommend this, it's a great time waster.

Lila DiDonato

1 year ago

This game is super addicting! I can play it for multiple hours and have fun. The Guilds are amazing and most of the time helpful and the restaurants are really unique! Although getting rubies is somewhat difficult, if you work hard enough, it makes the game easier. It would also make the game 10x better if you were able to purchase facial features in the store for rubies! But anyways, 5 stars!

Amanda C

1 year ago

Good overall. I have played this game for years. I loved that they didn't swamp you with ads and their prices were reasonable. If you complete tasks you can get additional gems. Some updates I have learned to roll with, but the one thing that has bothered me the most and has made me consider stop playing is the amount of their own ads that they consistently pop-up. It's especially frustrating when I have a timed booster. It wastes my chance to use them without being able to quickly close them.

LaWanda “Lolo” Dillon

1 year ago

I personally love the game. Great storyline, great graphics. I'm only giving this review 2 stars today because after the update this morning, the game keeps crashing. I've lost boosts because the game will start and crash and my boost is gone after I restart and return to game. Please fix this issue! Update: Those measures were taken prior to review. Anywho, as of last night the game was fine. No change in review bc of lost boosts.

Jackie

1 year ago

I love this game. I really do. But when I get a 5 minute booster and then get spammed with pop up windows after a level (thus wasting the time on my 5 min booster), it's very frustrating. I wish there were less pop up windows when you finish levels. I especially hate when it asks "This is a one time offer. ARE YOU SURE?!" - yes, I'm sure. You'll show it to me 500 more times this week, so if I change my mind it's not that hard for me to get it. Please limit pop-ups?

Jasmine S

1 year ago

Update: creators are getting greedy. Too many things require so many rubies which you don't get many from playing the game, mostly spending money. I can't even upgrade something without not only having to use rubies for the upgrade, but another 25 rubies to get it instantly?!? Either that or wait 4 hours. Ridiculous. There used to be an option to watch ads at least to speed up delivery, but they took that away. You can't get past a level without everything being upgraded. Save your time and $$

Animation Alliance

1 year ago

The new update crashed the game completely. I can't get it to load no matter what I do. I've uninstalled and reinstalled over 6 times, cleared the caches etc everything that is listed you tell us to do. I just get a blank white page that errors out. The update itself isn't lovely. There are more bugs now than before and crashes reported. I enjoy the game with it's cute story and gameplay. But it's gotten to be less fun. The event changes made them way to slow and to get anywhere you need $.

Jess Ica

1 year ago

The new update completely changed the map, and not in a good way, there is no zoom feature to see the rest of the map. Also, getting a reward that gives you boosters for a certain amount of time, is taken up by the spamming of other events that are happening on the main page. It should be turned off while the booters are active. Especially!! with the time you PAY for on the Megadelivery.

Emma-Leigh Higginbotham

1 year ago

The game itself is fun and addicting, but the amount of side quests and pop-ups for in-app purchases are a bit overwhelming. After a while, the costs go up for the necessary upgrades but there's no automatic upgrades as frequently in earlier levels. I get it and all, but it becomes frustrating. My partner agrees and has even stopped playing.

Rachel Seeger

1 year ago

I loved this game and spent decent money on it every week. The most recent area I've reached (Crabland) no longer hides that it's a money grab - you have to pay to even have a functional trash can in this neighborhood, and the oven upgrades have declined. All of the upgrades cost more, but the rewards aren't proportional to the difficulty and the cost. So disappointing. I'm ready to uninstall.

Robyn Guest

1 year ago

The game itself is fun. For the style of game it is, it's the worst pay to play I've come across. It requires you to use gems to upgrade items in the restaurant. You can't complete the levels without upgrading items. They make you wait HOURS for the upgrades to be delivered. The ads to watch for free gems or to speed things up are more than a minute long. You end up with two options; spend money or spend your "play" time watching ads without actually playing.

Rachel Webb

1 year ago

This is a solidly enjoyable game! The extremely outlandish scenes shown in the trailers ACTUALLY happen, but only a couple times as nightmares. The rest of the game is a restaurant sim. The difficulty goes up substantially as you progress through. The reason it's not 5 stars? The dang pop ups! And I don't mean ads--I paid to remove those. I mean the in-game challenges, offers, events. There's no way to skip them faster. Sometimes there will be 8 in a row. Please make them optional or skippable!

Kristiana Jaramillo

1 year ago

I really thoroughly love this game like I play it all of the time, but my reason for 4 stars is because the further you progress through the game the more expensive it is. They don't tell you that it takes like thousands of rubies to upgrade everything. Getting coins is not a problem at all, but the rubies: unless you pay for them all of the time you'll never have enough. Everything else about this game is amazing. The pets, guilds etc. Just wish rubies were easier to get...

Steele-Wool

11 months ago

The Secrets of Tasty Hills event has an issue where when you tap the bottom most customer on the screen for their order, the game won't register it and your character just continues to hold it and not hand it to them. The top 3 have no issues, tap and serve like normal. I've had to tap on the fourth, bottom customer many times for the game to recognize it.

Melissa Adams

9 months ago

The game is way to complicated the higher you go, so much so that you can't win the side specialties. It's also way way expensive, nothing can be done without purchasing rubies and that means everything. Spinning the wheel, your lucky if you get any rubies from, watching ads gives you like one and you need at least 7 rubies to do anything. Oh and they force you to get pets, and then to take care of them you have to have rubies to buy their stuff unless you can complete the side specialties.

Ray Fox

11 months ago

Very fun and addicting. No pushy ads, you only see them when you actively want to earn extra rewards or speed up upgrades. Very easy to learn, even if you've never played any games similar. The pets, community and customization is very pleasing, I don't usually see those options in cooking games. I'm very pleased with my experience thus far. Edit: My only complaint is that rubies could be a bit easier to earn.

Karla Sanchez

9 months ago

I really enjoy playing this game! I like trying to get the high score on each restaurant to get the chest. However, I wish you could do something with all the extra money you still have that you can't use or do anything with after you upgrade the restaurants.. I wish you could trade them in for diamonds or boosters or use them on the spin the wheel. Especially, since you can still collect the money from restaurants after the are fully updated, but you can't use it.