Comparison

Chef Wars vs Tiny Shop

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Chef Wars

Embark on a culinary adventure as a budding chef in this RPG. Recruit and train chefs, discover ingredients, and invent hundreds of unique recipes. Then, battle your way through themed cooking challenges to become a world-renowned chef and thwart an evil plot.

Highlights
  • Invent over 900 recipes
  • Explore 500 towns on a real-world map
  • Recruit and train 20 chefs
  • Compete in 3000+ themed cooking battles
  • Win Cheffy Awards and reach Master Chef level
Features
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Chef Wars is the first food discovery RPG! Recruit chefs, source ingredients, and invent hundreds of recipes from around the world. Then use those recipes to win themed kitchen battles! Become the most famous chef and stop the evil Baron von Pork from world domination! FEATURES: - INVENT: Collect 200 ingredients. Then mix and match to invent over 900 recipes! - EXPLORE: Visit 500 towns on a fully explorable, real-world map. - TRAIN: Recruit and train 20 chefs - each with their own traits and backstories. - COMPETE: Build your recipe arsenal to win themed cooking battles! 3000+ unique fights presided by celebrity judges! - RISE UP: Win the annual Cheffy Awards, reach Master Chef level, and defeat Baron von Pork once and for all. DEVELOPER'S NOTES: - Chef Wars is free to play with optional in-app purchases. Purchases are NOT needed to finish the game! - You also don't need to register an account and go online to play, but doing so gives access to friend rankings, global leaderboards, and access to your in-app purchases like premium chefs and skins. - As of initial release, we have a huge world map covering Europe and Asia! We hope to add more features, regions, chefs and recipes over time! - The game is only available in English right now, but we plan to add more translations in the future. JOIN THE COMMUNITY! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mindcakegames/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/mindcakes Chef Wars Playtest Community: http://www.facebook.com/groups/chefwars/ Having problems? Got a suggestion? We're a small indie team and we'd love to hear from you! Reach us via social media or email: contact@mindcakegames.com Stuck? Need hints? Check out the community wiki: http://chef-wars.wikia.com!

About

Tiny Shop

Design and manage your own fantasy shop in a charming RPG world. Research, craft, and sell magical goods, complete quests, and expand your business. An assistant helps sell items even when you're offline.

Highlights
  • Personalize and design your shop
  • Research, craft, and trade fantasy items
  • Complete quests and missions
  • Build and upgrade your city
  • Grow and harvest plants for crafting
  • Offline item sales with assistant
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YOU are a brand new member of the trading guild just stepping into this fantasy world. Personalize and design your own store, attract customers and sell magical and epic goods! Research, craft, trade, negotiate, buy and sell fantasy items and products from all over the world in this RPG simulation game and learn to manage your store to become the city’s best shop! Build, design and customize your very own cute fantasy shop with dozens of options! Making your store as outstanding as it can be will upgrade customers' satisfaction and boost your shop! Fortune awaits! With the help of your cute little assistant, discover a RPG world crafted with love. Meet mages and knights and send your heroes on epic adventures! Earn money and XP without doing anything as your assistant will sell your items for you while you are offline! Just fill your warehouse to the brim with goods and items and let the cash flow! Complete quests and missions for the trading guild and your customers and become the most beloved and reliable shopkeeper in town! Follow a cute and funny story, discover characters from your town and outside, build and upgrade your city to unlock more items and quests! Expand and upgrade your shop tile by tile. Buy beautiful and cute furniture and decoration to make your shop truly yours. Upgrade your shop’s statistics to boost your gold and xp! Plant and harvest exotic plants to craft powerful potions and other magic alchemy goods. From beautiful flowers to leafy vines you can become the best gardener around! Visit the botanist in the city center to buy new seeds and expand your garden. In this RPG fantasy shop adventure you will: RESEARCH, DISCOVER and CRAFT dozens of different items and goods to trade DESIGN and CUSTOMISE your tiny shop to improve your sales! COMPLETE STORY MISSIONS and QUESTS to help your city become prosperous EXPLORE and BUILD your city and world GROW and HARVEST cute plants and flowers ENJOY CUTE and CHARMING hand painted visuals HAVE A GOOD and RELAXING time Tiny Shop is a RPG store simulation game that will let you customize and design your own shop within a cute fantasy world. You can research, craft and sell: armor, potions, magic books, all kinds of gear and equipment as well as crafting materials such as plants, metals and gems. With your hard earned money you can expand and personalize your cute fantasy shop and explore the world to become the most prosperous shopkeeper in town! Install Tiny Shop for free NOW! Craft, trade, buy, sell, quest and customize in this fantasy RPG game! Music in our game is made by Kevin MacLeod at https://incompetech.com/ We're using the following tunes: * Carpe Diem * Porch Swing Days (slower) * Montauk Point Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Screenshots

Chef Wars4 screens
Tiny Shop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Chef Wars at none against Tiny Shop's shown. Chef Wars also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Tiny Shop's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 293). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chef Wars sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Tiny Shop sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tiny Shop holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 293 and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 79% and 79% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chef Wars ships an update every 3 weeks, Tiny Shop fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Chef Wars versus Tiny Shop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChef WarsTiny Shop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (293 ratings)4.7 (1.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews — better78.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2931.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB270 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperMindcake GamesMateusz Lesinski

Customer experience

Chef Wars

All ratings293 ratings
Positive87.4%
Neutral4.4%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews536 reviews
Positive79.3%
Neutral8.6%
Negative12.1%

Tiny Shop

All ratings1,292 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews267 reviews
Positive78.7%
Neutral6.0%
Negative15.4%

User reviews

Chef Wars

From 293 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Addictive gameplay
  • 👍 Charming art style
  • 🌍 Diverse cuisine and cultures
  • 🎓 Educational and informative
  • 💡 Innovative cooking RPG concept

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔒 Unable to connect to internet/servers
  • 💰 Difficult to progress without spending gems
  • 🤔 Confusing recipe creation system

Tiny Shop

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Engaging gameplay
  • 🚀 Generous with free rewards
  • 🎨 Charming art style
  • 💰 No pay-to-win mechanics
  • 📺 Optional, non-intrusive ads

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • ⏱️ Slow progression at times
  • 🔋 Battery-intensive
  • 🔍 Lack of customization options

Bugs and requests

Chef Wars

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes after battles
  • Inability to connect to internet
  • Disappearing saved data and progress
  • Graphical glitches and missing map areas

Requested features

5 requests
  • Cloud save/sync across devices
  • More recipe slots and chef slots
  • Better ingredient acquisition system
  • Improved map and navigation tools
  • Additional content updates and new features

Tiny Shop

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezes or gets stuck during loading
  • Disappearing or malfunctioning shop displays
  • Recipes or licenses getting reset unexpectedly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to customize character/avatar
  • More furniture and shop decorations
  • Daily customer requests or challenges
  • Improved balance for crafting materials

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Chef Wars

One-time5
  • Pack of Gems$0.99
  • Stash of Gems$4.99
  • Crate of Gems$8.99
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  • Trove of Gems$34.99
  • Cornucopia of Gems$49.99
18 purchases

Tiny Shop

One-time18
  • Small Gem pack$1.99
  • Birthday bundle$1.99
  • Adventurer bundle$1.99
Show 15 more
  • Croissant Bundle$1.99
  • Coral Crab Bundle$1.99
  • Starting Pack$2.99
  • Winter hat bundle$3.99
  • Big Gem pack$4.99
  • Bundle$4.99
  • Botanist Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Blacksmith Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Home Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Kitchen Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Ad Tickets bundle$4.99
  • Sunny festival$4.99
  • Flooded Bundle$4.99
  • Large Gem pack$9.99
  • Enormous Gem pack$19.99

Questions

Is Chef Wars free?
Chef Wars is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tiny Shop free?
Tiny Shop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chef Wars or Tiny Shop?
Tiny Shop is rated higher. Chef Wars averages 4.4 out of 5 from 293 ratings, while Tiny Shop averages 4.7 from 1.3K ratings.
Do Chef Wars or Tiny Shop have ads?
Tiny Shop shows ads; Chef Wars does not.
Which is updated more often, Chef Wars or Tiny Shop?
Chef Wars ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tiny Shop fortnightly. Most recently, Chef Wars was updated on October 14, 2026 and Tiny Shop on October 10, 2026.

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