Leave a Review Cooking Madness
It’s not about skill, it’s about money you spend
I love this game because it’s challenging and fun. BUT once you get up in levels (I’m level 395) it’s impossible to earn enough money to buy the upgrades. Here’s an example
level 361 starts a new world,new restaurants. I have gotten 3 stars on all levels up to 395 - this is without paying for extra customers so I have lost quite a few times and so earned extra money from that - and STILL i am short $28,500 for the remaining threee upgrades. So the next level is impossible to beat without more upgrades but because I have3 stars on all levels I can’t play anything but level 395, lose, earn about $600 and then do it again. Over and over. Until I earn the 9500 for one upgrade.
This is a deliberate pay wall so players feel forced to pay money. And even if you refuse, you are forced to watch countless commercials after your losses. I don’t mind a grab for real dollars from the developers but I do mind a deliberate system to prevent a person from moving through the game successfully without paying. These games are supposed to be challenging not impossible. If you have received top scores on all levels and are still unable to progress then the game is riggedShow lessMelody12344
Reset progress—Revised
Revision:
Reached out to game developer. They emailed me back some very helpful information!! I had also forgotten to use my accumulated gems to purchase boosts. Thank you, game developer, for quickly responding and helping :) I’m back playing this game again, and I’m grateful. Enjoy, everyone!
Previous review:
Have really enjoyed this game until recently. I’ve reached a level that I can’t pass. I avoid ads, so watching them to gain gems to purchase the boosts I would need is illogical and impractical. I miss the days when I would reach a level I couldn’t pass in Atari 2600’s Frostbite, die, and simply have to restart at the beginning. At least I could play the game still, successfully passing levels! There’s a note in the Help Section in the game that states they have no way to reset your progress. If you delete your game and reinstall it, it’s still saved and comes back onto your device at the same level you were unable to beat. I don’t even have the game backed up, but the developer apparently does :( So.. I have to locate another game to download and quit playing this one, since you cannot begin again at the beginning.Show lessKaceysCoolMom
I love THIS GAME ❤️
This game is so fun, it has no ads! If you need more diamonds you need to click on ads but that the only thing and again there’s no ads. The game is not so hard but some levels say hard, there is also a cool thing that you can up grade your food and machines so it can make it faster! That what I like about this game but also another thing that great is that when you win you get prizes there is some puzzles that you can also get prizes. If you get some many prizes you can get to 1st or any place and there is a thing that you can be a group of team that maybe strangers but you don’t have to talk with them. You can choose a team what ever you want but you don’t have to get a team the game will say that if you want to join or not if you do you can always back out. If you do you do join you can get to change people in the game if you don’t you can still join to change people the game ask if you want to change or not and again if you do you can always back out. Will that my explanation to you all that is reading this. Thank you for reading this I appreciate you reading it thank you, thank you.Show lessMontseCPotter
Such a fun game! However…
I love Cooking Madness. I have a number of cooking games on my iPad, but this one has become my favorite. I love the boosters and the challenges in each level. However, there a few things that I wish could change. For 1, I wish we had the options to buy coins! Some levels I do everything right, but because a menu item or an appliance isn’t upgraded, I won’t pass. I get using the double coin booster, but sometimes it’s not worth spending 100 gems when I’m only off by less than 100 coins. It’s even worse when I lose a level by less than 10 coins 🤦🏾♀️
Another thing that I wish could be different is how we add ingredients to menu items. While I appreciate being able to just click things and they go where they should, I would like a way to choose where ingredients would go. Sometimes I try to be strategic in how I place them and they end up on an item I wasn’t intending. I’m not sure how this feature can be modified, but I would like to see that change.
Other than that, great game. My boyfriend always made fun of me and how intense I am when I play - until I let him play a level 😅 Great work, ZenLife!Show lessDaishaSW
Because
I’ve been looking for a game like this for ages! It’s perfect! The levels are properly challenging and fast-paced, and the reward events and mini-cooking events bring more things to the screen when you get tired of the main game. The different restaurants, nearly infinite levels, boosters, diamonds, upgrades, extra lives, and everything else make me play this game for HOURS.
After playing to 200-3 or so, I realized levels, where you collect likes, are easier than timed coined ones! 😅😂 I normally use boosts or diamonds, or wait until my lives run out. I haven’t spent a penny on this game, and I confidently say it’s the most played on my phone.
My top five-star reason is that in the beginning, I didn’t experience a single ad. I think that was a connection error, and it was GREAT while it lasted, but the ads don’t seem constant or repetitive. They don’t take away from playing the game or make me want to stop. In fact, some of the games I play a lot now are from ads I got here. Whether that was purposeful advertising —
YOU KNOW WHAT THIS GAME IS TOP TIER AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL AND TAKE IT TO MY GRAVEShow less*>Zero<*
I WAS Enjoying this Awesome Game up until..
The basic scheme of trying to have the user purchase energy just to play the cooking game you run out of energy apparently on top of watching ads for 1 or 2 Jems and you need about 5 to 100 of them to purchase a carrot or upgrade a carrot excuse me TIMES 3 along with the lettuce.. the plate.. the frying pan so on and so forth. I’m so tired of finally finding games that I enjoy and then after a couple of hours the panhandling begins. DELETE APP… always the same truly sad results of 87% of games. I finally find interesting to download and play. Word puzzle games May still requires ads that you CAN SKIP after about 5-10 seconds but at the same time they don’t ask you for money and you can play as many word puzzles as you like without needing “make-believe energy” The desperate nowadays is embarrassingly ridiculous and now I can’t even play a cooking game without running out of “fake energy”. It’s just really sad stop being so money hungry the thirst, greed is extremely real. It’s like being at a stop light and hoping that individual doesn’t walk to the side of your car window and just stand there and make it uncomfortably awkward until the light turns green and you can’t wait to hit the gas full force be like REALLY…Show lessErikaVortex
Love
I am addicted to this game. I love playing this game but they’re a few things I don’t like and if the developers of this game change it. I will love it more. The main thing is when you earned your 10-30 minutes free play, that you have to use in that moment when you earn or given to you in what’s new. Most of the time when I earn them I can’t continue playing and I lose them. If they can make it to put in in your saved box or mail where you have the time to use would be great instead of losing it. The other is I notice that the game in certain levels the game tends to not give you your last plays to win. I have have count my food preps and it comes to one missing when I know I did all. Other than that so far the game I love.Show lessdaesy doll
Fun… until
Like most games, this game is fun and addicting right until the start making impossible unless you spend money. Around level 67 for me. There’s no way to create a consistent strategy to beat the harder levels, without the use of their boosters, which cost in game currency, you minimally earn by completing random side tasks. For me, that takes away the fun. I would spend money in boosters for exceptionally hard levels IF there was consistent ability to use independent strategy to beat harder levels without having to resource to boosters. For instance, levels 60+, you have 4 costumers, and you’re trying to make dishes as the approach, yet when you click a completed dish for one, it goes to another that just came over causing chaos in trying to strategize output. I have no issue with in-app purchases as a venue for making revenue on free games, however, it’s crappy to force players to have to do so, by making the game goals impossible. 👎🏻Show lessdementedaeryn
Inappropriate Ads
Me and my son play this game together. You promote ages 4 and up to play yet you have inappropriate ads showing. An ad popped up while waiting to play the next level, of two animated men kissing while one of the men’s private area was blurred out and the other showing hand motions near it. Mind you there were sound affects! It was one of those choose your story kind of games that they were promoting, and the games that they promote don’t even have scenarios that play out the way they promote it, because I have played similar games like that. But I was mortified as my son was next to me waiting for his next turn to play the game, mind you, you have to wait 5-6 seconds before you can exit out of the ad, which I ended up exiting the whole game. My son had questions that I had to answer but I shouldn’t have to discuss it while playing something which was supposed to be innocent fun. Please be careful on what your kids play, and watch the ads that they promote. Shame on this app for allowing these ads to promote inappropriate sexual activity on an app meant for children ages 4 and up. I love the game but this upset me so much I rated one star. I hope I brought some awareness to parents who let their children play games without any supervision, it’s not as innocent as they promote it to be. Smh.Show lessChocolatefingerz
WTH
I have been playing this game for about a year. While it is indeed a fun game, it’s getting more and more frustrating to deal With. Most times for the last few months, it takes FOREVER to load, then it crashes almost immediately!! If you do get to play any rounds, the minute u try to move within the game ( go to your quest board, play one of the side games, etc)it will just crash and you won’t know what you’ve lost or sometimes you will have to replay a round you have already completed. You will lose rubies ( which often times you have actually paid for), game progress, prizes, etc. with no way to get them back. As much as loved this game it is just becoming more of data sucker than an actual past time. Can you PLEASE do something to address this?? Also, can you make it possible for guild members to gift extra lives to each other?? ThanksShow lessShalamar2020
