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Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game
Mytona · 163,284 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
★★★★★
163,284 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 37 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
29 negative reviews mention this · 78% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much of a money grab and need too many diamond while not making enough ever. I used to love this game and returned you use to get free outfits and things as rewards for her restaurant but now you barely get free good items while I love the game and everything needs diamond including beating levels you can never actu…" - StevieDuhh!!
2
"money"
17 negative reviews mention this · 46% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much of a money grab and need too many diamond while not making enough ever. I used to love this game and returned you use to get free outfits and things as rewards for her restaurant but now you barely get free good items while I love the game and everything needs diamond including beating levels you can never actu…" - StevieDuhh!!
3
"levels"
12 negative reviews mention this · 32% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much of a money grab and need too many diamond while not making enough ever. I used to love this game and returned you use to get free outfits and things as rewards for her restaurant but now you barely get free good items while I love the game and everything needs diamond including beating levels you can never actu…" - StevieDuhh!!
4
"play"
12 negative reviews mention this · 32% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much of a money grab and need too many diamond while not making enough ever. I used to love this game and returned you use to get free outfits and things as rewards for her restaurant but now you barely get free good items while I love the game and everything needs diamond including beating levels you can never actu…" - StevieDuhh!!
5
"level"
9 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much of a money grab and need too many diamond while not making enough ever. I used to love this game and returned you use to get free outfits and things as rewards for her restaurant but now you barely get free good items while I love the game and everything needs diamond including beating levels you can never actu…" - StevieDuhh!!
6
"playing"
9 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much of a money grab and need too many diamond while not making enough ever. I used to love this game and returned you use to get free outfits and things as rewards for her restaurant but now you barely get free good items while I love the game and everything needs diamond including beating levels you can never actu…" - StevieDuhh!!
7
"restaurant"
8 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much of a money grab and need too many diamond while not making enough ever. I used to love this game and returned you use to get free outfits and things as rewards for her restaurant but now you barely get free good items while I love the game and everything needs diamond including beating levels you can never actu…" - StevieDuhh!!
8
"years"
7 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money grab - don’t bother. Played this game for years. They just keep ruining it for those that are loyal. It’s all about the $$ now. And so obviously rigged. You can watch it prevent you from finishing a level at the very last second when it suddenly stops respo…" - tst-sc
9
"spend"
7 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Got too expensive. I love the game and have been playing it for many years and this is the first time I am refusing to spend money. They doubled price on seasonal ticket, I still hope they will reconsider their tactic of making more money vs having happy play…" - Adjika83
10
"update"
7 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Falling out of love. Recent updates have made CD an extremely frustrating game. Needing to use boosts is increasingly common, even on normal levels where you wouldn’t expect an experienced player like to need them. I’ve been playing since 2018 and really fallin…" - Cacolel
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"rewards"
6 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much of a money grab and need too many diamond while not making enough ever. I used to love this game and returned you use to get free outfits and things as rewards for her restaurant but now you barely get free good items while I love the game and everything needs diamond including beating levels you can never actu…" - StevieDuhh!!
12
"actually"
6 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much of a money grab and need too many diamond while not making enough ever. I used to love this game and returned you use to get free outfits and things as rewards for her restaurant but now you barely get free good items while I love the game and everything needs diamond including beating levels you can never actu…" - StevieDuhh!!
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Money grab - don’t bother
Played this game for years. They just keep ruining it for those that are loyal. It’s all about the $$ now. And so obviously rigged. You can watch it prevent you from finishing a level at the very last second when it suddenly stops responding to your clicks *eye-roll*.
Falling out of love
Recent updates have made CD an extremely frustrating game. Needing to use boosts is increasingly common, even on normal levels where you wouldn’t expect an experienced player like to need them. I’ve been playing since 2018 and really falling out of love with the increasing demands.
Used to be fun
The game was top notch. Then tasty airlines came along and prizes became watered down with non stop duplicates and non stop animations that take away from timed boosters. Now they’ve decided to set the tempo and force you to open a new restaurant in order to compete in quests and play ice break or for top tier rewards. Now they’ve made the levels more difficult with warm island you should be ashamed of yourselves, a lag in customers to the counter an outrageous mis matched conveyor belt with duplicate snacks and slow slow slow that makes it impossible to find a rhythm and makes even easy levels difficult. I give up at this point . The lag is intentional support told me as much so save the well forward this to our team . You already know and are woefully aware of all of this.
Greedy
I have been playing this game every day since 2019. It’s something to take the edge off, distract me from the world. There’s a ton of things to do, which is what makes it fun. I have spent money consistently over the course of playing this game because the cost of $4.99 (for a golden ticket) was reasonable to get some better more exclusive rewards. Because with the last few updates they’ve really taken away the ability to do any of the fun side quests unless you move on to the next restaurant so those of us who like to play in one restaurant until we get all the possible rewards really got screwed but at least we had an affordable golden ticket to earn rewards that way since we can’t participate in the other side games. Well of course greedy Mytona had to make sure to increase the cost for no reason at all. The price increase is not justified. And not only that but it DOUBLED. I could understand a $1-2 increase but double is not justified or reasonable any longer. The game is no longer fun. And your greed is what’s ruining it. I used to buy the golden ticket every time along with making occasional other purchases in the game but I will no longer be making any purchases.
Disappointed
I started playing Cooking Diary in July of 2021. Since then, I have purchased every path to glory ticket for $4.99 (minus a year that I took a break from the game for personal reasons). It has now doubled in price $9.99, and that’s just the start of my disappointment. They used to have a seasonal restaurant where you could gain tokens and win a new helper for completing however many levels it was. I would even pay for tokens so I could get the new helper. They took the seasonal restaurant away, and replaced it with tasty airlines. Tasty airlines is similar to Monopoly Go, where you collect cards and once you’ve gathered all the cards, you get prizes (new helper included). This new event is hard to complete even if you play every day. And the whole reason I stopped playing MoGo is because they too make it impossible to complete their sticker packs (in CDs case, cards, suitcases, etc). It’s hard to want to keep playing this game when they make it harder to complete events, on top of raising the prices. I have not purchased the path to glory so far this season and I likely will not be doing so. Every time the game asked me to do a survey, I would say the same things - please bring back seasonal restaurant. Now I’m only one person, maybe others enjoy tasty airlines. But at the least, go back to the regular pricing. Because at this rate, there has to be others like me who purchased every PTG ticket and are not going to after this increase. I have loved CD for years. But the price increases, along with being difficult to complete tasty airlines, has really left a bad taste in my mouth. I’ve also always purchased every food truck event as well & now I just don’t want to put ANY money into the game. I know they’ll still have their loyal players who will pay no matter what - but I’m being pushed further and further to stopping playing altogether. And that really breaks my heart.
Decent Game
I enjoy the game, but the developers greed is getting the best of them. To increase the golden pass from $4.99 to 9.99 is insane. When I sent a message to support. I got a generic response back telling me they’ve added all these new things…… No, no you haven’t.. and honestly I was ok with paying the $4.99, but I will not be paying 9.99. I could understand a $1-2 increase for the little changes that were made (again nothing new, just new packaging on the same items), but double is absolute greed. They make it so everything is reliant on gems (which you must purchase). Currently searching for a new game as we speak.
Don’t play if you don’t want pay
Updates have ruined this game. Costs way too much money to keep up, I’m talking $50 to $60 monthly if you want to compete. Used to be a lot of fun, now it’s a frustration.
Used to be the best.. not anymore
So I have played this game for years! I belong to a guild I’ve played with years. We all put some money in, but it was never a lot. They are now getting greedy. They are no longer allowing you to participate unless you open new restaurants, and you can’t earn enough rubies unless you do 230 levels In most restaurants. This game used to be the best, but now it’s just a pay to play game. Unless you are willing to spend $50 a more a month to play, it will be a disappointment. I’ll change my review if they change back the rules of the game. Disappointed
Greed
Keep moving unless you hit the lotto. I have been playing for over 3 years. Yes it is quite costly, you need rubies to win levels the little extras were manageable at $4.99. They would send you surveys asking opinions. I gladly will fill out as you obtain rubies. With each update they improve game, this last update. Wow! They want to lose players, now to achieve the extra objects you have to pay $9.99 or $19.99. When has that ever been an option never. Who cares for extra coins, WE NEED RUBIES!!!! Pointless now, wow Greed should be the new name of this game. As you can’t win levels or Advance without rubies. Everybody in the Facebook group is complaining and leaving. Don’t waste your time or money here.
Terrible updates
This game used to be fun. Now it requires paying way too much money to even get half the rewards you could get with what paying in the first place could get you. They make it nearly impossible to acquire rubies at a fair pace now, take away side games unless your in your current restaurant, and now increased path to glory to double the price? Very disappointing. Bring back the old game.
Game Crash
I have logged in every day for over 4 years. Today will be the first day that I have been unable to play your game, which will break my streak. Your changes to this game have been horribly greedy. I don’t have a player in my League that actually plays anymore. Everyone is disgruntled. You lost an avid $$ playing customer.
Never ending
I have played level 9 of the burger crazy restaurant for over 2 hours and earned over 20,000 coins and it never ends. If I quit I lose all of the coins. How do I complete this stage?
New Update on Jan.2.26
UPDATE: I have been playing this game since it first came out. In fact, I am the admin of a group. It is extremely upsetting to see how a game that used to be so amazing has become nothing but a money hungry app. We can’t pass levels now unless we spend actual money. I have filed complaints numerous times and all I get back, when you guys answer, is the same thing which sounds condescending, sarcastic, and giving back the finger to a loyal player. Needless to say, I am officially deleting this app and I do not recommend this app to anyone. Don’t waste your time. We have been noticing that, after Cinecafe (third restaurant), new members are giving up anyway. I don’t blame them.
STOP THE POP UPS
The amount of pop ups on this game is obscene. It’s clear they want you to spend your money but just going from one level to the next is a chore because there are no less than 5-10 ads/pop ups each time. I’ve stopped playing as a result. What a waste of a good game
Really hard to get gems 😭😭😐
So uhh Like in the title 🙄 I think you devs need to make it easier to get gems
For example add more chances to get gems in the wheel of fortune and make stuff that u need to buy with gems a lot more cheap and when you get prizes like in the path of glory make the amount of gems way more instead of 3 or 2 gems make it 5 or 10 or more plz
I hope the developers see this and actually do it because imma rate this one star if they don’t do this >:(
For example add more chances to get gems in the wheel of fortune and make stuff that u need to buy with gems a lot more cheap and when you get prizes like in the path of glory make the amount of gems way more instead of 3 or 2 gems make it 5 or 10 or more plz
I hope the developers see this and actually do it because imma rate this one star if they don’t do this >:(
Removed boosters for returning players
It’s such a shame they removed boosters for players that come back after more than a month. I deeply enjoyed using them to play multiple levels with ease. Please bring these back, now it’s just depressing without them.
STOP WITH ALL THE POP UP ADDS!!
This was a good game until they constantly spam you with pop up adds and offers for their game! Bs
Too difficult you have to spend money to get through the levels
This game has changed. At first it starts out fun and exciting but then it changes all about money.
I don’t recommend
I don’t recommend
Глэк
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False advertising
I have played this game for years, and I am so disgusted with your recent ads, showing every game style under the sun except what the actual gameplay is like. I refuse to continue with a game/company with no integrity.
Crashes after Update
After update on 1.2.26, cannot get back into game.
Keeps crashing after the initial Mytona screen.
Keeps crashing after the initial Mytona screen.
Annoying
Since last app update after New Year’s Eve, the music and the background music fight with each other. The levels are so annoying, money grabbing scheme to buy crystals because it’s impossible to go through them.. bs
Greedy greedy
This game keeps making things harder so you have to dish out more and more money.
I used to like this game
But it’s a new year
Another Terrible update
Hate the airline game! What’s the point! Bring back the secret assistant
Too much of a money grab and need too many diamond while not making enough ever
I used to love this game and returned you use to get free outfits and things as rewards for her restaurant but now you barely get free good items while I love the game and everything needs diamond including beating levels you can never actually achieve anything cuz you always lose til you get barely enough diamonds to upgrade therefore you can’t even use the diamonds on outfits or anything else which is why I hate to waste my money but I’m officially over this game plus buying diamonds are too expensive when everything irl is already overpriced and after giving it another try I’m on basic level but super high on map 10 and level 72 once again I keep only being 10$ short after playing for 5hrs straight collecting 36 diamonds to upgrade it 3x and yet I’m now 5$ no matter what wasted whole 24/hrs on a single level yet if I pay which I’m trying of doing everyone can’t just afford to get buying diamonds just enjoy the game with others while it’s enjoyable I won’t be giving this another penny
Too many purchases
Tiring to click through pages and pages of optional paid add ons between each level.
Sometimes buggy
Sometimes buggy
Got too expensive
I love the game and have been playing it for many years and this is the first time I am refusing to spend money. They doubled price on seasonal ticket, I still hope they will reconsider their tactic of making more money vs having happy players.
Sincerely
Sincerely
Terrible Changes
This used to be the absolute best TM game available. But the developers have gotten more and more greedy and every update is designed to force you to spend more and more money to enjoy the game or make progress. Very sad to be looking for another game
App Price Increase
I have had this for a very long time. One in app purchase went from 4.99 to 9.99! Double the price! I will not be buying any longer. That is insane to increase it double.
Update is bad
Rediculous for long term players who can’t get rewards in restaurants without moving. App crashes. Bring back our side events for all players.
Updates are ruining the game
This game used to be so much fun, but now the updates are completely ruining the game. Before I was able to earn gems in order to upgrade my restaurant and now I cannot earn gems without paying an insane amount of money to purchase. I also cannot earn other rewards like I used to without opening a new restaurant at level 50. It’s unrealistic to play competitively because without the rewards, you have to buy more packages. 50 levels isn’t enough to even complete tasks for each restaurant which actually give you gems. I can’t play to earn season guild points without opening a new restaurant. It is truly ridiculous and now I’m going to be kicked out of my guild because I don’t have money to spend on The game like everyone else.
Same problem
Fun to start. And further you go more pop ups you get. You have to close 10 windows trying to get you to buy something before you can play once you advance thru the game. Deleted this a year ago for the same reason. And decided to down load again and start over to see of it was a better experience. Was at first and now bogged down again so will be deleting and seeing if a competitor has decided to be less obnoxious
Fun Until….
This game was really fun but the pop ups are INSANE, i have to tap through like 8 different pop ups just to play ONE level then another 4 in between each round it’s getting really annoying at this point and I might delete the game soon. There is no point is having a game that takes 5 minutes to actually plauy
TOO MANY IN APP PURCHASES
The game itself (when you can actually play it, is fun) but omg I can’t even make it past one level without the game trying to make me purchase something 10 different times!! It’s annoying!! Look, if someone wants to purchase gems, they’re gonna do it. You do NOT have to ask a million times. I had to uninstall, it was more about the purchases than the actual game.
Upgrade sucks
I updated the game and when I go to play it took my to wild card I got away. I paid for them (not real money, game money) work hard for them.
Make it make sense.
The game made it much easier on the lower level to gain rubies as prizes. Now I’m at the pizza shop level and it’s become stagnant. A complete halt. How did I go from winning the treasure boxes with 15-20 rubies to now nothing?! You would think as the levels get higher they would give you a bit more because now the upgrades cost much more. This is America during the $2 minimum wage era and inflation is at an all time high. Ridiculous. Now I want to delete the game since I can’t earn rubies to upgrade anymore.
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)