Comparison

MasterChef vs Potion Punch 2+

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

Head to head
About

MasterChef

Engage in a fun, fast-paced cooking competition game. Learn over 120 recipes, customize your chef avatar, and upgrade cooking gear. Compete with players globally in challenging mini-games to prove your culinary skills.

Highlights
  • Learn over 120 recipes
  • Compete in global cooking challenges
  • Play fun mini-games
  • Customize chef avatar and outfits
  • Upgrade cooking gear
  • Unlock new recipes and challenges
Features
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Discover the new MasterChef: Learn to Cook!, rebuilt for you to learn and compete for endless fun in the kitchen! Do you have what it takes to be the number one chef? Show your cooking abilities in MasterChef: Learn to Cook! A unique, fun, and fast-paced cooking competition & learning game awaits you! Get matched with other players around the globe. Choose your ingredients, slice, prepare, plate and serve delicious dishes with style in fun mini-games! The MasterChef judges will evaluate your dish based on your performance and speed. Complete and unlock new recipes, challenges, and mini-games along your cooking journey! PRACTICE AND LEARN WITH MORE THAN 120 RECIPES! From a Margherita Pizza to Sushi, what do you want to cook today? CHALLENGE MINI-GAMES Play countless mini-games with a twist! Challenges will take you to cook recipes with extra added difficulty. Will you be able to clear all of them? COOK WITH STYLE Create an avatar and customize its features as you want! Become the coolest chef and standout by changing your outfit from a wide range of clothes, accessories, and aprons! UPGRADE YOUR COOKING GEAR By completing mini-games, events and challenges, you will be able to collect different cooking gear such as pots, utensils, plates amongst others, and upgrade them! Cooking utensils are a chef’s best friend! Multiplayer fun and lots of recipes await you in MasterChef: Learn to Cook! Download it now, it is time to prove that you are a top chef! Join our Social Club and share your tasty dishes with us! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlayMasterChef Twitter: https://twitter.com/MasterChefGame Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Masterchef_game

About

Potion Punch 2+

Manage a magical restaurant, cooking enchanted items and serving fantasy characters. Battle monsters and villains while upgrading your shop and crew. Embark on a humorous quest to save the kingdom, one café at a time.

Highlights
  • Run multiple magic restaurants
  • Cook enchanted items and potions
  • Upgrade shops and crew
  • Serve fantasy characters
  • Battle monsters and villains
  • Hundreds of challenging levels
Features
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Cook, bake, serve, and… save your customers from evil monsters and villains?! Now on Apple Arcade, Potion Punch 2+ is the ultimate restaurant time-management game for those looking for a challenge! Embark on a quest in a fantastic world filled with magic and monsters. Set up shop in unique locations to serve enchanted swords, magical scrolls, and powerful potions to help heroes on their adventures! Take the cooking fever to an all-time high with baby dragons roasting ingredients and magic wisps freezing your favorite treats or grilling your delicious steaks! Cook in ways that you've never seen before in a fast-paced time-management game. Become the star chef through hundreds of levels teeming with amazing heroes and dastardly villains. Unfurl your scrolls, polish your frying pans, and open the restaurant doors, because it's time for cooking madness in Potion Punch 2+! RUN YOUR OWN MAGIC RESTAURANT ● Potion Café: Mix colors and brew powerful potions, and tame baby dragons to cook tasty fish. ● Enchantment Shop: Blend squid inks, stamp scrolls, and train birds to carve runes. ● Shroom Kitchen: Grow mushrooms in the night and catch fireflies to make bright and colorful lanterns. ● Sword Shop: Forge enchanted blades and craft brilliant gemstones through smelting. ● Tropical Treats: Make frozen ice cream popsicles, dip treats in fondue, and bake delectable cupcakes. ● And more with new chapters added regularly! Each chapter brings fun new stories and fun new restaurants, cafes, kitchens, and more! UPGRADE YOUR CREW AND CAFÉ ● Design and decorate your shop to make delicious meals quickly, serve orders faster, and maximize profits and tips. ● Level up your heroes and magical creatures like cooking dragons, gargoyles, and magical wisps to maximize their awesome abilities and powers. MEET AND COLLECT LOYAL CUSTOMERS ● Meet every type of fantasy character, from brave knights to powerful gods to snarly goblins and many more! ● Throw fun parties and magical feasts to attract new customers from every corner of the kingdom. FIGHT MONSTERS AND VILLAINS WITH GODS AND HEROES ● Summon legendary heroes and recruit them to overcome the challenges of running the most popular kitchen in this delicious magical world. ● Manage the madness in the kitchen by harnessing the power of heroes who can tame dragons, wield ice magic, or even control time. ● Defend your restaurants from enemies who attempt to disrupt your fast-paced kitchen. ● Save the kingdom one café at a time! HUMOROUS FANTASY STORY ● Follow the tale of Lyra and Noam, two alchemist entrepreneurs who have a taste for fun new adventures. ● Experience a story filled with twists and turns as you unlock your magical restaurants and fill your cooking diary with amazing stories. UNIQUE TWIST ON COOKING GAMES ● Fast-paced combo system that rewards you for maintaining your rhythm. ● Hundreds of levels with unique goals like serving a number of customers, earning a total amount of tips, making every order perfect, avoiding trash bins, and many more! Be the ultimate shopkeeper in this simulation of various cooking games with a magical twist. Explore a fantasy world filled with delicious food to cook, incredible magic to cast, and colorful characters to meet! Download Potion Punch 2+ on Apple Arcade today!

Screenshots

MasterChef4 screens
Potion Punch 2+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Potion Punch 2+ at weekly against MasterChef's monthly. MasterChef's advantage is ratings volume (27K vs 3.6K) and device support (5 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for MasterChef against 4.8 for Potion Punch 2+. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MasterChef has 27K ratings behind it against 3.6K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 52% of MasterChef's written reviews are positive against 56% of Potion Punch 2+'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MasterChef ships an update monthly, Potion Punch 2+ weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MasterChef versus Potion Punch 2+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMasterChefPotion Punch 2+
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (27K ratings)4.8 (3.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.4% of reviews55.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings27K — better3.6K
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size998 MB836 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTilting Point LLCMonstronauts

Customer experience

MasterChef

All ratings26,566 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral4.6%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews802 reviews
Positive52.4%
Neutral17.7%
Negative29.9%

Potion Punch 2+

All ratings3,609 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews462 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral19.0%
Negative25.3%

Bugs and requests

MasterChef

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Oven stop button disappearing
  • Mixing and pouring ingredients not registering properly
  • Saved progress being lost or reset
  • Inability to complete challenges due to missing ingredients

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a practice mode to hone skills
  • Implement a multiplayer mode to play with friends
  • Provide more in-depth recipe customization
  • Improve the boiling and stirring mechanics
  • Allow players to create and share their own recipes

Potion Punch 2+

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

MasterChef

No in-app purchases

None

Potion Punch 2+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MasterChef free?
MasterChef is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Potion Punch 2+ free?
Potion Punch 2+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MasterChef or Potion Punch 2+?
Potion Punch 2+ is rated higher. MasterChef averages 4.7 out of 5 from 27K ratings, while Potion Punch 2+ averages 4.8 from 3.6K ratings.
Do MasterChef or Potion Punch 2+ have ads?
Neither MasterChef nor Potion Punch 2+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MasterChef or Potion Punch 2+?
MasterChef ships an update monthly, and Potion Punch 2+ weekly. Most recently, MasterChef was updated on October 31, 2026 and Potion Punch 2+ on October 31, 2026.

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