Comparison

Red Sword vs Catastrophe Restaurant

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Apocalyptic ingredient cooking
  • Restaurant management
  • Diverse customer base
  • Fast-paced cooking action
  • Shop decoration
  • Secret recipe development
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Red Sword4 screens
Catastrophe Restaurant4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Red Sword ships an update weekly, Catastrophe Restaurant every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Red Sword versus Catastrophe Restaurant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRed SwordCatastrophe Restaurant
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (279 ratings)5.0 (55 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings279 — better55
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB167 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTatsukizxima.LLC

Customer experience

Red Sword

All ratings279 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews206 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral6.3%
Negative15.5%

Catastrophe Restaurant

All ratings52 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral1.9%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Red Sword

One-time2
  • RingEx1$6.99
  • playercolor1$6.99
7 purchases

Catastrophe Restaurant

One-time7
  • Designer's Style$0.99
  • Luxury Restaurant Style$0.99
  • Kuno's Glasses$0.99
Show 4 more
  • AD removal$2.99
  • Tip Jar(Medium)$2.99
  • Tip Jar (Large)$12.99
  • Tip Jar (Ultra-Large)$31.99

Questions

Is Red Sword free?
Red Sword is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Catastrophe Restaurant free?
Catastrophe Restaurant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Red Sword or Catastrophe Restaurant?
Catastrophe Restaurant is rated higher. Red Sword averages 4.8 out of 5 from 279 ratings, while Catastrophe Restaurant averages 5.0 from 55 ratings.
Do Red Sword or Catastrophe Restaurant have ads?
Both Red Sword and Catastrophe Restaurant show ads.
Which is updated more often, Red Sword or Catastrophe Restaurant?
Red Sword ships an update weekly, and Catastrophe Restaurant every 2 weeks. Most recently, Red Sword was updated on November 7, 2026 and Catastrophe Restaurant on November 7, 2026.

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