Solitaire Showdown vs Solitaire Cooking Tower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solitaire Showdown
Experience classic Solitaire with a competitive twist. Challenge friends in real-time multiplayer games or compete in global tournaments set on scenic beaches. Improve your skills and climb the leaderboards.
- Real-time multiplayer Solitaire
- Global beach tournaments
- Daily and all-time leaderboards
- Facebook friend challenges
- Play on multiple devices
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Solitaire Showdown Head to the beach for a real Solitaire Showdown Experience the classic game of Solitaire in a totally new way. Challenge your friends for real-time multiplayer action, or take part in Tournaments on beaches around the World. Travel to wild beaches in the most famous places on Earth. Advance your Solitaire skills until you are ready to take on the World. Play Solitaire Showdown Now! Exciting Features: ◆ Play multiplayer solitaire live. ◆ Daily, All Time, Hall Of Fame Leader boards. ◆ Play exciting games on the beach around the world. ◆ Most people know the game, only few have mastered it. Extra Features: ◆ Facebook connection so you can play with your friends! ◆ Cool rewards! ◆ Support on multiple devices and platforms! ◆ Play against players from around the World.
Solitaire Cooking Tower
Play classic solitaire while building and collecting various restaurants. Collect unique card decks like Puppy or Kitty decks as you progress. Enjoy a blend of card game strategy and restaurant management.
- Classic solitaire gameplay
- Build diverse restaurants
- Collect unique card decks
- Restaurant variety
- Card deck customization
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Welcome to Solitaire Cooking Tower - Best Card Game! Build your own restaurants while playing your favorite solitaire! > Just like the old days! Remember the old solitaire game on your PC that you used to love? Well, things just got better! > Build Restaurants! Hot dogs, tacos, Chinese food, and so on. Variety of restaurants to choose and build from! > Start Collecting Cards Decks! Create your own Card Decks while playing solitaire! Puppy Decks, Kitty Decks, Blossom Decks and much more! More Card Deckss & restaurants all over the world will continue to be updated in-game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Solitaire Showdown at none against Solitaire Cooking Tower's shown. Solitaire Showdown also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). Solitaire Cooking Tower's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 26 months) and review sentiment (79% vs 63%). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Solitaire Showdown sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Solitaire Cooking Tower sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Solitaire Showdown against 4.6 for Solitaire Cooking Tower. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solitaire Cooking Tower has 1.3K ratings behind it against 163, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Solitaire Showdown's written reviews are positive against 79% of Solitaire Cooking Tower's.
Solitaire Showdown ships an update every 26 months, Solitaire Cooking Tower monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Solitaire Showdown | Solitaire Cooking Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (163 ratings) | 4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.1% of reviews | 79.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 163 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 350 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qublix | Sticky Hands Inc. |
Customer experience
Solitaire Showdown
Solitaire Cooking Tower
Bugs and requests
Solitaire Showdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Solitaire Cooking Tower
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezing or crashing
- Ads not working as intended
- Progress and data loss issues
- Inability to open the game after updates
Requested features
6 requests- More restaurants and menu items
- Ability to choose difficulty level
- Option to mute or adjust volume of customer sounds
- Ability to reset progress or start over
- More game modes beyond just solitaire
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- Improved daily challenges and missions
In-app purchases
Solitaire Showdown
- 1000 Coins$0.99
- 3 Tickets and 7000 Coins$1.99
- 1 Ticket$1.99
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- 6000 Coins$4.99
- 5 Tickets$4.99
- 12 Tickets$9.99
- 40000 Coins$19.99
- 28 Tickets$19.99
- 80 Tickets$49.99
- 200 Tickets$99.99
Solitaire Cooking Tower
- Undo 5$0.99
- EventPackage1$0.99
- Shuffle 5$1.99
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- Magic 5$1.99
- Undo 25$2.99
- Reward Video ADs skip$4.99
- Shuffle 25$5.99
- Alice card deck package$5.99
- Magic 25$5.99
- Special Package$7.99
Questions
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