Politaire vs Solitaire Cooking Tower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Politaire
Experience a unique blend of Solitaire and Poker in this handcrafted game. Aim to create winning Poker hands with your active cards, strategically discarding and drawing to score. Enjoy a minimalist design with deep gameplay and multiple modes.
- Solitaire and Poker blend
- Create winning Poker hands
- Strategic card discarding and drawing
- Two game modes
- Endless challenges
- One-handed portrait control
- Detailed game statistics
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A handcrafted Solitaire game with Poker blended, interesting game mechanics, charming clean visual & a native feel one handed portrait play! Politaire is a minimalistic, a new modern Solitaire experience prepared just for you. Politaire is a Solitaire mixed with Poker. Your aim is to make winning hands with 5 active cards in your hand. Choose cards that you want to discard and swipe it away. Upcoming cards will fill up your active hand and score if you make a winning hand. Discarded cards will go back to the pile, waiting to come up again. The minimalist visuals hide an interesting depth that will keep challenging and surprising as you master it. ** Politaire offers: - 2 game modes (Single Deck & Double Deck). - Endless challenges. - Game Center Leaderboards & Achievements & Cloud saves. - Brilliant design of Card-Faces & Card-Backs - One handed portrait control. (With custom option for Left-Hand or Right-Hand players) - Detailed Game Statistics. - Night Mode (For night play). ------ Thank you for trying Politaire! Ell Tee
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 price: Solitaire Cooking Tower at Free against Politaire's $1.99. Solitaire Cooking Tower also leads on ratings volume (1.3K vs 184). Politaire's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Solitaire Cooking Tower is free to download; Politaire costs $1.99 up front. Politaire sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Solitaire Cooking Tower sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Solitaire Cooking Tower holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solitaire Cooking Tower has 1.3K ratings behind it against 184, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Politaire's written reviews are positive against 79% of Solitaire Cooking Tower's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Politaire ships an update every 3 weeks, Solitaire Cooking Tower monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Politaire | Solitaire Cooking Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (184 ratings) | 4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews — better | 79.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 184 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| 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 | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 350 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Topebox | Sticky Hands Inc. |
Customer experience
Politaire
Solitaire Cooking Tower
User reviews
Politaire
From 184 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and addictive game
- 🚀 Quick and easy to play
- 💡 Interesting mix of poker and solitaire
- 🎨 Beautiful graphics and design
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🔧 Controls and touch sensitivity issues
- 📢 Too many ads
- 🔒 Lack of save/cloud sync functionality
Solitaire Cooking Tower
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Best game ever
- 👍 Fun, cute, and relaxing game
- 👍 Addictive and enjoyable
- 👍 Great concept and gameplay
- 👍 Smooth and fluid gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches after updates
- 🔋 Battery draining issues
- 💸 Expensive in-app purchases
- 📺 Too many intrusive ads
- 🤔 Confusing translation/localization
Bugs and requests
Politaire
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes after completing a round
- Touch screen unresponsive or inaccurate
- Objectives and scoring not working as expected
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Additional game modes and challenges
- Ability to disable auto-play
- Customization options for card designs
- Leaderboards and social features
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
Politaire
- Double Deck Mode + No Ads$9.99
Solitaire Cooking Tower
- Undo 5$0.99
- EventPackage1$0.99
- Shuffle 5$1.99
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- Magic 5$1.99
- Star 100$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
- Ultimate Package$9.99
Questions
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