Comparison

We Happy Restaurant vs Salt Crown

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

Head to head
About

We Happy Restaurant

Run a restaurant with questionable ethics and create bizarre food that surprisingly attracts many customers. Expand your business and discover the secrets behind your success.

Highlights
  • Run a restaurant with no moral standards
  • Make abominable food
  • Attract tons of customers
  • Watch customers develop new bodily features
  • Expand and grow business operations
Features
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A serious, sketchy restaurant simulator, where you get to: * Run a restaurant with no moral standards. * Make abominable food yet still attract tons of customers. * Watch customers develop new bodily features. * Expand and grow your unholy business operations. Welcome to We Happy Restaurant Mega Group Inc. Here you will have an opportunity to run your own restaurant and be a productive, profitable member of the corporate family. Our mega group's killer product, green essence, is the foundation of our immensely profitable restaurant business. It keeps our customers hungry and always wanting more! With such an incredible weapon at hand, we can save ourselves from the dull effort of improving the food, and really really focus on the difficult part that is not doing anything! Too good to be true? Join us now, and find out for yourself! Follow Us Twitter: @ChillyRoom Facebook: @wehappyrestaurant Email: info@chillyroom.com

About

Salt Crown

Features
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You are the Warden of Solnitsa, a salt-mine keep, on the Night the fire is low. The Host outside is bound by the same law that binds you. Nothing crosses a threshold uninvited. Nothing takes what is not owed. A name given freely is a claim. So they do not storm the walls. They stand in the dark and wait for you to break the law first — and you will, because the fire needs feeding, and the granary needs opening, and somebody is knocking politely at the gate wearing a face you know. Twelve Watches until dawn. Three bodies. One purse. Salt Crown is FTL's crew triage rebuilt as a castle under siege: a folk-horror roguelike played across a lit cross-section of the keep, one room at a time, until the Night ends or you do. EVERYTHING IS A BODY IN A ROOM No ability bars. No cooldowns. If nobody walks to the gate, nobody holds the gate. Each defender has Vigor, Hands and Nerve, and every order costs the time it takes to cross the castle. THE TALLY IS A BILL, NOT A TIMER The Host writes down what it is owed, and every mark is something you did — a door opened, a guest invited, a name given away. At three marks they come sooner. At twelve, the Crowning. A bill is a thing you can argue with. A timer is not. ONE PURSE, THREE HUNGERS Chime buys wards, Chime feeds the fire, Chime pays people, and it will not do all three. Ember is the run clock and it burns whether or not you are looking at it. The dawn screen tells you exactly where it went. FOLKLORE LAW IS THE RULE SYSTEM Guest-right, threshold-law, name-law. Salt in the mouth is a truth test. The polite thing at the gate is a mechanic, not a mood. GLANCEABLE, BRUTAL, INSTANTLY REPEATABLE The whole castle is one screen. Pause is always a tap away. A Night runs fifteen to twenty-five minutes; losing takes rather less, and starting again takes seconds. WHAT IS IN IT • 41 hand-written event cards — every word original • Eight rooms, three besieging Hosts, one hearth • A deterministic simulation: the same seed is the same Night, every time • Landscape, one-thumb controls, built for phone and iPad alike • Plays fully offline — nothing to download, nothing to log into • No ads, no tracking, no accounts, no in-app purchases; the game saves on your device Keep the fire. Keep the law. Keep the count. Salt Crown's pixel art is generated with Pixellab (AI image generation) against a hand-built style specification, then curated and integrated by hand. All design, code and writing is original work by Arkynate.

Screenshots

We Happy Restaurant4 screens
Salt Crown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Salt Crown at none against We Happy Restaurant's 11. Salt Crown also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). We Happy Restaurant's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price and device support 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. We Happy Restaurant sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Salt Crown asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

We Happy Restaurant ships an update every 3 weeks, Salt Crown every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
We Happy Restaurant versus Salt Crown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWe Happy RestaurantSalt Crown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB4 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperChillyRoom Inc.Paolo Javier

Bugs and requests

We Happy Restaurant

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Customers not using all available food lines
  • Offline progress not updating correctly
  • Occasional app crashes
  • Inconsistent ad rewards

Requested features

4 requests
  • More customer and food machine variety
  • Ability to rearrange restaurant layout
  • Customer progress/mutation journal
  • Offline earnings tracking improvements

Salt Crown

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

We Happy Restaurant

One-time11
  • Cash Pack - Small$0.99
  • Green Essence - Pack 1$0.99
  • Accountant$0.99
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  • Welcome Pack$0.99
  • Agent$1.99
  • Biochef$1.99
  • Cash Pack - Medium$3.99
  • Green Essence - Pack 2$3.99
  • General Manager$3.99
  • Scientist$3.99
  • Cash Pack - Big$7.99
None

Salt Crown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is We Happy Restaurant free?
We Happy Restaurant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Salt Crown free?
Salt Crown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do We Happy Restaurant or Salt Crown have ads?
We Happy Restaurant shows ads; Salt Crown does not.
Which is updated more often, We Happy Restaurant or Salt Crown?
We Happy Restaurant ships an update every 3 weeks, and Salt Crown every 6 days. Most recently, We Happy Restaurant was updated on October 26, 2026 and Salt Crown on October 26, 2026.

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