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Cooking Fever: Restaurant Game
Nordcurrent UAB · 338,722 ratings · ★ 4.5
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Top complaints - extracted from 30 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"
22 negative reviews mention this · 73% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not enough ways to get gems. I absolutely love this game and often find myself playing for hours; however, it’s absolutely ridiculous how rarely gems are given. In order to level up appliances or the kitchen’s appearance, some restaurants require 10+ gems that are basi…" - Anonymous20018
2
"play"
9 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not enough ways to get gems. I absolutely love this game and often find myself playing for hours; however, it’s absolutely ridiculous how rarely gems are given. In order to level up appliances or the kitchen’s appearance, some restaurants require 10+ gems that are basi…" - Anonymous20018
3
"gems"
8 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not enough ways to get gems. I absolutely love this game and often find myself playing for hours; however, it’s absolutely ridiculous how rarely gems are given. In order to level up appliances or the kitchen’s appearance, some restaurants require 10+ gems that are basi…" - Anonymous20018
4
"level"
7 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not enough ways to get gems. I absolutely love this game and often find myself playing for hours; however, it’s absolutely ridiculous how rarely gems are given. In order to level up appliances or the kitchen’s appearance, some restaurants require 10+ gems that are basi…" - Anonymous20018
5
"money"
6 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not enough ways to get gems. I absolutely love this game and often find myself playing for hours; however, it’s absolutely ridiculous how rarely gems are given. In order to level up appliances or the kitchen’s appearance, some restaurants require 10+ gems that are basi…" - Anonymous20018
6
"hours"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not enough ways to get gems. I absolutely love this game and often find myself playing for hours; however, it’s absolutely ridiculous how rarely gems are given. In order to level up appliances or the kitchen’s appearance, some restaurants require 10+ gems that are basi…" - Anonymous20018
7
"doesn"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "CONSTANT crashing & overheating. This game just wants your money. Give you very little to no gems so then you can’t upgrade anything. And EVERYTHING needs gems to update. Yes you can’t plant seeds to get gems but it takes 80 hours, but if you want to reduce the time, you c…" - 23MJL23
8
"coins"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun but dead end game. The gameplay itself is fun and can definitely keep you hooked for hours. I've been playing this game on and off for over two years. Mostly off, and after coming back to it, I'm reminded why I end up taking such long breaks. My biggest issu…" - Lexibexi42
9
"playing"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not enough ways to get gems. I absolutely love this game and often find myself playing for hours; however, it’s absolutely ridiculous how rarely gems are given. In order to level up appliances or the kitchen’s appearance, some restaurants require 10+ gems that are basi…" - Anonymous20018
10
"progress"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth it anymore. I used to play this game a lot I loss all my progress and that’s fine I started again but now I see that it requires gems to be able to upgrade and you don’t get any free gems that easy so you can’t level up because you can’t upgrade and yo…" - Cubanking6
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"support"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "THIS GAME WILL STEAL YOUR MONEY. PLEASE READ : DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT BUY ANYTHING WITH REAL MONEY IN THIS GAME THEY WILL NOT GIVE YOU WHAT YOU PURCHASED EVEN IF IT SHOWS A UPDATED BALANCE THEY ARE THEIFS AND WONT REFUND GO ON REDDIT AND LOOK UP COOKING FEVER OTHER PLAYERS…" - Black cats are cool
12
"everything"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "CONSTANT crashing & overheating. This game just wants your money. Give you very little to no gems so then you can’t upgrade anything. And EVERYTHING needs gems to update. Yes you can’t plant seeds to get gems but it takes 80 hours, but if you want to reduce the time, you c…" - 23MJL23
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Uwu
Uwu
Crashing
I can’t play because it keeps crashing so now I’m going to miss my daily rewards
Not worth it anymore
I used to play this game a lot I loss all my progress and that’s fine I started again but now I see that it requires gems to be able to upgrade and you don’t get any free gems that easy so you can’t level up because you can’t upgrade and you only get gems when you level up so you have to buy gems. This last upgrade is just a big money grab. Don’t play it unless you want to spend your own money.
Forced to watch long ads after each level and then the game freezes
Needs serious overhaul
THIS GAME WILL STEAL YOUR MONEY
PLEASE READ : DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT BUY ANYTHING WITH REAL MONEY IN THIS GAME THEY WILL NOT GIVE YOU WHAT YOU PURCHASED EVEN IF IT SHOWS A UPDATED BALANCE THEY ARE THEIFS AND WONT REFUND GO ON REDDIT AND LOOK UP COOKING FEVER OTHER PLAYERS HAVE MENTIONED THE SAME ISSUE IF YOU VALUE YOUR HARD EARN MINEY SOEND IT ANOTHER GAME THAT WILL ACTUALLY GIVE YOU WHAT YOU OAYED FIR AND HAS A GREAT SUPPORT TEAM COOKING FEVER IS NOT ONE OF THESE GAMES ESPECIALLY RHE NOCTURNAL BRAND THAT OWNS THEM I WOULD BUY OR OLAY WHY OF THEIR GAMES AND GIVE MORE MONEY TO THESE SCAMMERS.
невозможно играть без доната
ужасно мало возможности заработать кристаллы
Broken game
Fun game until it hits you with “server not responding” and you can’t play anymore. I can’t even log into the game. Conveniently, this happens after I make a store purchase. Support does nothing to help you.
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la udah dpt diamond malah stuck di 13 padal jelas"dapet diamond malah ga masuk aneh
Customer support is trash
I’ve made purchases and have played this game a lot. All of a sudden all my purchases and progress has been wiped from the app. I tried to reach out via support and have gotten ignored. This is how they treat a paying customer, I can’t recommend anyone trust this company!
bad game
i've claimed the 4 daily quests and the weekly quests says 3out of 4 daily quests claimed so it's a bad game!🤬
ADS after every game played!!
This used to be such a great game, one ad maybe every 10 wins, and I’d play along/watch the ad but Now every time you beat a level an ad will pop up it’s ridiculous. I have spent money for extra coins and diamonds before but the amount of ads is so bad that I’m not caring about how much money I’ve spent or how far along I am in the game. I am looking for a game that’s good right now so I can delete this, it’s just not worth it anymore.
june 25 06
still can’t play the game. are your developers useless? probably. what are they even doing during work hours? losers.
not working
it doesn’t let me get in the app it just stays on the black screen but when i go on my phone it works so im really confused (ive reinstalled the app twice)
BUGS
my game keeps giving me a black screen everytime i try to play… theres no update needed either. fix it
?
It erased everything. I’ve been playing for years and I got on the game and everything was deleted and put me back to square one
Когда наконец будут исправления?
Новое обновление ничего не исправило. В задания зайти невозможно, рестораны не загружаются. Почитайте отзывы игроков, у всех такая же проблема, играть невозможно.
LITHUANIAN DEVELOPERS ARE STUPID!
They don’t listen to users on game crashing! Still hasn’t fixed it!!!!!!!!!!!!
levels
game is fun but then it’s rigged when it comes to level 12
😡
HEY I JUST GOT SCAMMED. I SPENT SO MANY GEMS ON UPGRADES BUT THEY DISAPPEARED AND THE UPGRADES WERE NOT THERE. MY LEVEL EVEN GOT RESTARTED BACK THREE LEVELS. DONT PLAY THIS GAME GUYS ITS JUST RAGE BAIT AND STRESS
To many adds
Honestly, I’ve been playing this game for years on and on, it’s not the amount of adds that bother me, it’s that you have to close the game to be able to go back from the add. Please fix this
Not enough ways to get gems
I absolutely love this game and often find myself playing for hours; however, it’s absolutely ridiculous how rarely gems are given. In order to level up appliances or the kitchen’s appearance, some restaurants require 10+ gems that are basically non existent. It’s even rare to earn gems from the casino. I really love this game and it’s sad that the developers are so money hungry. If you don’t have real money to spend on the gems, don’t bother downloading this app.
CONSTANT crashing & overheating
This game just wants your money. Give you very little to no gems so then you can’t upgrade anything. And EVERYTHING needs gems to update. Yes you can’t plant seeds to get gems but it takes 80 hours, but if you want to reduce the time, you can watch ads. Watching ads will cause your device to overheat. I thought it was just my iPad, but it overheats my phone too. Then there’s the crashing, after watching ads, many times the app crashes so you watched an ad for no reason because they won’t give you your reward because the app crashed due to the ad. This app is trash: poor ad integration, memory/ resource management issues, app instability issues, reward delivery failures, performance optimization issues, backend synchronization concerns, and just quality assurance concerns. I'd recommend prioritizing stability over adding new content for a few updates. The ad system appears to be the main source of problems, so profile CPU, GPU, memory, and battery usage during ad playback to identify what's causing devices to overheat. Test with different ad networks and devices, and consider replacing or updating any SDK that's causing instability. If the app crashes after an ad, players should still receive their reward. Save the reward state immediately after the ad completes or let the server verify the completed ad so a crash doesn't erase the reward. Since the game updates frequently, I'd also improve the release process by expanding beta testing, adding automated crash monitoring, and reviewing crash reports before pushing updates. Frequent updates are good only if they improve reliability; otherwise they risk introducing new bugs while existing ones remain unresolved. That info, I’ll tell you for free because not everything should cost money. And those gem shards are a joke and insult.
Fun but dead end game
The gameplay itself is fun and can definitely keep you hooked for hours. I've been playing this game on and off for over two years. Mostly off, and after coming back to it, I'm reminded why I end up taking such long breaks.
My biggest issue is how slow progression feels. I understand the game needs to make money, but it feels like upgrading your kitchen and restaurant becomes unnecessarily difficult. Almost everything requires diamonds, yet when you level up, you only get 7 diamonds no matter how far you've progressed. That's usually not even enough to unlock a single kitchen or restaurant upgrade, so you have to level up several more times just to afford one item.
The other option is using the slot machine, but that also requires spending a lot of coins, and the rewards aren't guaranteed. Not to mention, the cost goes up with every spin, so you're spending more and more coins each time. After a certain point in each restaurant, it feels like you can't beat the levels unless you've upgraded your equipment and decorations. That makes the game start to feel repetitive because you're stuck trying to earn enough resources before you can make any progress.
There are a few ways to earn extra diamonds, like watching ads, but those rewards are pretty limited and only reset once a day. Even buying diamonds doesn't feel like a great value. For the price, you don't get very many, and it can feel like you're spending close to $10 just to upgrade one item, with maybe enough left over for a couple of smaller upgrades. Overall, it just feels like you're pushed toward spending real money if you want to keep progressing at a reasonable pace.
I really do like the game, but it gets frustrating when it feels like the only way to make decent progress is by spending real money. That takes a lot of the fun out of it.
My biggest issue is how slow progression feels. I understand the game needs to make money, but it feels like upgrading your kitchen and restaurant becomes unnecessarily difficult. Almost everything requires diamonds, yet when you level up, you only get 7 diamonds no matter how far you've progressed. That's usually not even enough to unlock a single kitchen or restaurant upgrade, so you have to level up several more times just to afford one item.
The other option is using the slot machine, but that also requires spending a lot of coins, and the rewards aren't guaranteed. Not to mention, the cost goes up with every spin, so you're spending more and more coins each time. After a certain point in each restaurant, it feels like you can't beat the levels unless you've upgraded your equipment and decorations. That makes the game start to feel repetitive because you're stuck trying to earn enough resources before you can make any progress.
There are a few ways to earn extra diamonds, like watching ads, but those rewards are pretty limited and only reset once a day. Even buying diamonds doesn't feel like a great value. For the price, you don't get very many, and it can feel like you're spending close to $10 just to upgrade one item, with maybe enough left over for a couple of smaller upgrades. Overall, it just feels like you're pushed toward spending real money if you want to keep progressing at a reasonable pace.
I really do like the game, but it gets frustrating when it feels like the only way to make decent progress is by spending real money. That takes a lot of the fun out of it.
Not getting what I paid for
I pay for the monthly gems and coins, but for the last two months, I haven’t gotten any.
Fun Game But…
Lots of ads and all the progress I had recently got erased and the support team doesn’t really seem to do much.
Was Enjoying Game
And then one day it stopped loading. Deleted and reinstalled - nothing. When it was working, it was fun. Some of the restaurants were hard to advance unless you purchased gems, which I choose not to do.
Game
Doesn’t even work when trying to play
Pros And Cons
The game is pretty addictive you can play on it for hours and have loads of fun with determination and motivation to serve customers and complete the restaurants. The problem is that it is insanely difficult to get diamonds which is so frustrating considering that the restaurants are really demanding of that when it comes to upgrades. Soon, it becomes unlikable and unplayable which is so disappointing because the game had so much potential yet most of the time you’re stuck in the casino or planting and doing everything you can to try and gain coins and gems. Even the challenges require about 10+ diamonds to even enter only to gain back not even twice the amount. The game is great, but if they want more players, try to make the game a little more playable please.
Love the game itself BUT THEFT WARNING….
I have had a ton of fun on this game but the ads are insane so I tried to remove them (as advertised) by making a game purchase. I bought a $3-$4 package with some gems and coins then BOOM $92 attempts to come out from my account via Apple Store which my bank thankfully blocked. We have to get a new debit card now because the game keeps trying to take $92 that I never consented or tried to spend. BEWARE
Проблема
У меня не открывается ни один ресторан, и сад тоже, идёт бесконечная загрузка, а потом надпись «сервер не работает, попробуйте через 15 минут» и так каждый раз, в целом игра хорошая и интересная, но какой в ней смысл если я играть в неё не могу.
Sentiment summary
88%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
7%
Negative (1-2★)