Chef Wars Journeys vs Doom Kitchen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chef Wars Journeys
Engage in food trivia to collect chefs and ingredients. Invent over 1000 recipes by mixing ingredients and travel the world to discover unique postcards. Fill your kitchen with hundreds of collectible items.
- Food trivia quizzes
- Recipe invention
- Chef and ingredient collection
- World travel with postcards
- Kitchen decoration and collection
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Solve fun food trivia! Collect chefs, ingredients and 1000 recipes! Travel the world! Can you discover them all? FEATURES: - QUIZZES: Solve food trivia to unlock chefs and ingredients! - INVENT: Mix ingredients to invent over 1000 recipes! - TRAVEL: Send chefs to travel, collect postcards from famous places. - FILL YOUR KITCHEN: Collect hundreds of chefs, recipes, ingredients, decorations, trinkets and postcards! Can you find them all? DEVELOPER'S NOTES: - Chef Wars Journeys is free to play with ads and optional in-app purchases. Purchases are NOT needed to advance through the game. Ads, quests, and login rewards provide free gems to unlock additional hints and content. - The original Chef Wars is NOT needed to play - the gems and account from Chef Wars is not linked to this app. - We update the content regularly - more quizzes, recipes, and rooms! - The game is only available in English and Chinese. We hope to add more languages in the future. JOIN THE COMMUNITY! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mindcakegames/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/mindcakes Chef Wars Community: http://www.facebook.com/groups/chefwars/ 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!
Doom Kitchen
Defend your city from a zombie apocalypse by cooking special food that turns them to ash. Strategically arrange your kitchen and choose the right meals for different zombie types to survive.
- Defense roguelike gameplay
- Zombie-themed survival
- Kitchen arrangement strategy
- Food-based combat
- Enemy-specific food choices
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Doom Kitchen is a defense Roguelike. The zombie virus has swept the world, and your city is in crisis! As a special chef, you suddenly find that zombies have lost their ability to act after eating special food and turn to ashes. A sense of purpose arises, and you decide to pick up the spatula and save... Zombies are coming again, or survive first!! Features: - Arrange your kitchen properly within the limited space. - Choose the right food and facilities for different enemies. - Test your organizational skills and combat strategy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Doom Kitchen at 100% against Chef Wars Journeys's 50%. Doom Kitchen also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Chef Wars Journeys's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (43 vs 5). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Chef Wars Journeys sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Doom Kitchen asks for nothing beyond the download.
Doom Kitchen holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chef Wars Journeys has 43 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Chef Wars Journeys's written reviews are positive against 100% of Doom Kitchen's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chef Wars Journeys | Doom Kitchen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (43 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mindcake Games | 利园 宋 |
Customer experience
Chef Wars Journeys
Doom Kitchen
In-app purchases
Chef Wars Journeys
- 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
Doom Kitchen
No in-app purchases
Questions
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