Comparison

Cooking Quest vs Goblin's Workshop

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

Head to head
About

Cooking Quest

Manage your own food truck in this simulation game. Travel the kingdom, collect ingredients, cook delicious food, and compete in festivals. Upgrade your truck and hire chefs to become the best food vendor.

Highlights
  • Food truck management simulation
  • Ingredient collection and recipe discovery
  • Town festivals and food competitions
  • Hire and upgrade chefs
  • Invest in town development
  • Food truck upgrades
Features
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This place has some great food…!! Food truck management simulation game! Collect recipes from around the world and create the ultimate food truck! You must first go on an adventure to acquire ingredients. There are so many delicious ingredients in this world. Cook the best food with the ingredients that you worked tirelessly to gather. The customers who try your food will love your food truck more and more. Travel across the Kingdom to join town festivals. After you hire more chefs and enhance your heroes, go ahead and enter the food competition to compete with food trucks from all over the Kingdom! Enter the events to acquire new recipes and cute outfits. Invest in the town and construct new buildings. The more villagers move in, the more customers you'll have at your food truck. Don't panic when there are too many customers! If you purchase an upgraded food truck, you can hire more chefs to cook even faster! Will you be able to create and run the best food truck in the Kingdom? Begin your tasty adventure now! ■contact us email : catlabstudio@gmail.com *This game requires an internet connection.

About

Goblin's Workshop

A simulation RPG where you craft weapons, recruit monsters, and explore to gather materials. Sell items to monsters, upgrade your transport, and equip your monsters to battle humans and reclaim territories.

Highlights
  • Item crafting and selling
  • Monster recruitment and exploration
  • RPG combat mechanics
  • Idle gameplay
  • Monster equipment upgrades
  • Territory battles
Features
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***** goblin's Workshop is a simple and easy item making simulation & RPG idle game. ***** Make weapons, recruit monsters to explore, get more materials and make more powerful weapons! Defeat the evil humans! [Introduction] In the game, you can make all kinds of items to sell to monsters to earn money, from time to time there will be a variety of monsters to visit your store. If you are very idle, you can also click them to pimp, from them to cut more money. When there are not enough materials, you must send your monster hired soldiers to explore the world to get more resources. If you have some money, please buy a better transport wagon for the monsters to ride. But the humans in this world is not a vegetarian, they occupy many territories. So your monsters if the equipped items are too bad to explore, it is easy to be beaten by human! You can leave the better items to your monsters to put on, so that the monsters increase more combat power. The crap will be left to other idiot customers to buy it, this is the right way to do business! Well, no more chit chat. I'm going to the market to buy materials and drink... [Terms of Use] https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Cooking Quest4 screens
Goblin's Workshop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Cooking Quest at 4.7 against Goblin's Workshop's 3.7. Cooking Quest also leads on ratings volume (261 vs 9) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Cooking Quest sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Goblin's Workshop sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cooking Quest holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cooking Quest has 261 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Cooking Quest's written reviews are positive against 71% of Goblin's Workshop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cooking Quest ships an update every 5 weeks, Goblin's Workshop every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cooking Quest versus Goblin's Workshop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooking QuestGoblin's Workshop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (261 ratings) — better3.7 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews78.5% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings261 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB423 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJIN KWON JEONGJUNG CHUN HUNG

Customer experience

Cooking Quest

All ratings260 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral1.2%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive78.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative14.0%

Goblin's Workshop

All ratings8 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

Bugs and requests

Cooking Quest

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • White screen freeze on app launch
  • App crashes immediately after opening
  • App won't stay open and keeps shutting down
  • Chef timers frozen - cooking progress doesn't advance
  • Cannot log out to switch accounts
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  • Game won't load past 'Cat Lab' title screen
  • Random game freezes during gameplay
  • Bounty rewards cannot be claimed
  • In-app purchases not reflecting in-game
  • Ad rewards not being granted after watching
  • Data loss and account disconnection issues
  • Purchased ad removal package still shows ads

Requested features

10 requests
  • More towns and locations to explore
  • Additional recipes and food items
  • More hero characters to collect
  • Food truck customization options
  • Arena or friend list battle system
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  • Ability to log out and switch accounts
  • Game restart/data reset option
  • Faster ingredient spawning
  • Background music/podcast compatibility
  • More events and seasonal content

Goblin's Workshop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cooking Quest

One-time10
  • Starter Pack on Sale!$0.99
  • Fever Tickets$0.99
  • Starter Pack$1.99
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  • 300 gems$2.99
  • Beginner Pack$3.99
  • 550 Gems$4.99
  • 1200 Gems$8.99
  • Darkville Pack$8.99
  • Cherryville Pack$8.99
  • 5-Star Hero Pack$26.99
10 purchases

Goblin's Workshop

Subscriptions3
  • Double Bless$9.997 Days
  • Goblin King's Bless$9.997 Days
  • Hire Crystal Miner$14.991 Month
One-time7
  • Fistful of crystals$0.99
  • Unlock a random recipe$1.99
  • Pouch of crystals$2.99
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  • Chest of crystals$9.99
  • 3x Battle Speed$9.99
  • Newbie Special Package$9.99
  • Barrel of crystals$29.99

Questions

Is Cooking Quest free?
Cooking Quest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Goblin's Workshop free?
Goblin's Workshop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cooking Quest or Goblin's Workshop?
Cooking Quest is rated higher. Cooking Quest averages 4.7 out of 5 from 261 ratings, while Goblin's Workshop averages 3.7 from 9 ratings.
Do Cooking Quest or Goblin's Workshop have ads?
Both Cooking Quest and Goblin's Workshop show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cooking Quest or Goblin's Workshop?
Cooking Quest ships an update every 5 weeks, and Goblin's Workshop every 3 weeks. Most recently, Cooking Quest was updated on November 2, 2026 and Goblin's Workshop on November 3, 2026.

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