Red Sword vs Catastrophe Restaurant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Red Sword
Engage in epic battles by enlarging your sword and unleashing a multitude of skills to defeat legions of monsters. Power up your abilities, equip numerous skills, and discover rare items to achieve ultimate strength. Explore bonus and hidden stages for an enhanced gaming experience.
- Enlarge sword for powerful attacks
- Activate numerous skills
- Equip any number of skills
- Obtain powerful weapons
- Power up abilities
- Discover rare items
- Bonus and hidden stages
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Power up the various abilities! Activate a large number of skills to defeat enemies!! ■ Game description ・Enlarge your sword and attack many enemies! ・Obtain powerful weapons to attack legions of monsters! ・Activate a large number of skills to attack many enemies! ・You can equip any number of skills! ・Obtain rare items to achieve unrivaled power! ・You can power up the various abilities! ・There are bonus stages and hidden stages!
Catastrophe Restaurant
Manage a restaurant in a post-apocalyptic world, transforming bizarre ingredients into gourmet meals for a diverse clientele. Engage in fast-paced cooking actions and a lighthearted story.
- Apocalyptic ingredient cooking
- Restaurant management
- Diverse customer base
- Fast-paced cooking action
- Shop decoration
- Secret recipe development
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A restaurant like no other On the edge of a ruined world stands a slightly quirky restaurant. Cut. Grill. Boil. Salt. Pound. Every step is a satisfying, high-tempo tap! Turn bizarre monsters and even microwaves into delicious masterpieces in this unique cooking action game. What's great about Catastrophe Restaurant? 【1】Simple One-Tap Cooking Action Tap at the perfect moment to prep ingredients. Easy to pick up, incredibly addictive. Develop secret broths and upgrade your restaurant to master the chaos! 【2】Wildly Weird Customers Cyborgs, genius babies, mermaids, demons, and more. Laugh-out-loud conversations with your cheerful waitress "Kuno" and the mysterious "Madam" never stop. 【3】A Surprisingly Gentle Apocalypse The end of the world has never been this heartwarming. Funny, touching, and satisfying until the very end — a rare "kindness in the ruins" story. Plenty to enjoy ・Develop over 100 secret broth recipes ・Collect decorations to customize your restaurant ・Discover the hidden stories of quirky guests ・Upgrade tools and kitchen equipment Perfect for players who love: ・Fast, satisfying tap action ・Charming pixel art & retro style ・Post-apocalyptic & dystopian worlds ・Heartwarming humor and light stories ・Games you can enjoy in short bursts No in-app purchases needed to finish the game (ads are shown). Welcome to the friendliest restaurant at the end of the world!
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Verdict
Red Sword and Catastrophe Restaurant both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Catastrophe Restaurant's written reviews are positive against 78% of Red Sword's. Catastrophe Restaurant also leads on monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Red Sword's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (279 vs 55). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Red Sword sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Catastrophe Restaurant sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Catastrophe Restaurant holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Red Sword has 279 ratings behind it against 55, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Red Sword's written reviews are positive against 100% of Catastrophe Restaurant's.
Red Sword ships an update weekly, Catastrophe Restaurant every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Red Sword | Catastrophe Restaurant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (279 ratings) | 5.0 (55 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 279 — better | 55 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 167 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Tatsuki | zxima.LLC |
Customer experience
Red Sword
Catastrophe Restaurant
In-app purchases
Red Sword
- RingEx1$6.99
- playercolor1$6.99
Catastrophe Restaurant
- Designer's Style$0.99
- Luxury Restaurant Style$0.99
- Kuno's Glasses$0.99
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- AD removal$2.99
- Tip Jar(Medium)$2.99
- Tip Jar (Large)$12.99
- Tip Jar (Ultra-Large)$31.99
Questions
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