# Chef Stack — Cooking roguelike deck-builder

> Cooking roguelike deck-builder (iPhone/iPad app by James Paton.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chef-stack/id6782283342 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [James Paton](https://appshunter.io/developer/6779110174)
- Category: Games, Card, Puzzle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 22 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-01
- Data updated: 2026-08-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chef-stack/id6782283342/reviews.md

## What is Chef Stack?

Chef Stack is a cooking-themed roguelike deck-builder — easy to learn, hard to put down.

Pick ingredient cards from your hand and PLATE them into recipe combos: pairs, trios, runs and color-matched plates score big. Hire CHEFS between tickets to multiply your score and stack powerful combos, then clear a run of escalating dinner tickets before your plates run out.

• Cook with cards — plate ingredients into recipes for points
• Build a kitchen — hire chefs that multiply and combo your score
• One more run — escalating tickets, unlockable kitchens and five difficulty stakes
• Premium, no nonsense — no ads, no tracking; one optional purchase unlocks everything

Free to play with the first kitchen. Unlock the full game once to open every kitchen and difficulty stake, forever.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock Full Game | $0.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.2 — 2026-07-27

A steadier kitchen.

• Buying the full unlock now completes reliably first time
• Restoring a purchase on a new device is more dependable
• Stability and performance improvements across the run

### 1.1.1 — 2026-07-26

A quiet maintenance update. Chef Stack can now report its own crashes, hangs and performance problems, so faults get found and fixed instead of waiting for someone to report them. Nothing personal is collected — the App Store privacy details list exactly what is.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-07-22

Chef Stack 1.1.0 — the biggest update yet.

BUILD YOUR DECK
• Buy fresh ingredients at the market and trim cards you don't want — every run is yours to shape.
• Your brigade now fills a 6-chef line, and you can sell chefs back, so every shop is a real decision.
• New chefs that snowball with every plate, every ticket, and your bank.

COMPETE & COLLECT
• Game Center leaderboards for the Daily Run and your best dish.
• 12 achievements to earn.
• A new Chef Collection book tracks every chef you discover.

TOUGHER SERVICE
• New boss rules keep every boss ticket fresh.

LOOKS THE PART
• Hand-painted art for every ingredient, plus new chef portraits.
• The scoring cascade now climbs in pitch, big plates shake the kitchen and catch fire, and cards fly off the pass when you plate them.
• Full VoiceOver support and Reduce Motion options.

FIXES
• Fixed a price-display issue on the unlock for some regions.
• Smoother iPad layout and safe-area fixes.
• Save-reliability and stability improvements.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-07-04

Lowers the one-time Unlock Full Game price and keeps the in-game price label aligned with Apple's localized purchase sheet.

### 1.0 — 2026-07-02

No release notes.

## More apps by James Paton

- [Tiny Courtroom](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tiny-courtroom/id6781199898)
- [Hereafter: Lanterns Keeper](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hereafter-lanterns-keeper/id6782757590)
- [Airtight: Excuse Generator](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/airtight-excuse-generator/id6783538343)
- [Elluna: Bedtime Stories](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/elluna-bedtime-stories/id6783539614)
- [JobTray](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jobtray/id6783540162)

All apps by James Paton: https://appshunter.io/developer/6779110174

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