Farmside vs Potion Punch 2+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Farmside
Cultivate a seaside farm, growing crops, raising animals, and crafting unique recipes. Decorate your farm and avatar with hundreds of unlockable items. Expand your land and fulfill orders from townsfolk.
- Plant crops and harvest produce
- Raise farm animals
- Craft recipes from farm goods
- Decorate farm and avatar
- Expand farm land
- Fulfill town orders
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******Build your dream farm!****** * Place plots, plant crops, harvest, and repeat * Build beautiful orchards filled with your favorite fruit trees * Raise chickens, cows, and other animals who produce agricultural products * Use the produce from crops, orchards, and animals to craft and cook unique recipes! * Fill orders from townsfolk * Buy seeds from Dunn’s seed stand ******Decorate!****** * Everything on the farm can be placed freely and they all have their own characteristics, such as fences that will stop chickens from running around, street lights that automatically light up the farm at night, and pavement that provides safe walkway for your avatar. * Change the color your barn, house, and other key farm locations with decals * Customize and dress your avatar! * Unlock hundreds of unique decorations as you complete quests and level up ******Expand!****** * Start with a quaint farm by the beach, and expand into the island interior
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.
- Run multiple magic restaurants
- Cook enchanted items and potions
- Upgrade shops and crew
- Serve fantasy characters
- Battle monsters and villains
- Hundreds of challenging levels
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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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Potion Punch 2+ at 4.8 against Farmside's 4.0. Potion Punch 2+ also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (3.5K vs 334). Farmside's advantage is device support (5 vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Potion Punch 2+ holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Potion Punch 2+ has 3.5K ratings behind it against 334, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Farmside's written reviews are positive against 56% of Potion Punch 2+'s.
Farmside ships an update every 5 weeks, Potion Punch 2+ weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Farmside | Potion Punch 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (334 ratings) | 4.8 (3.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 334 | 3.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 652 MB | 808 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Team17 USA | Monstronauts |
Customer experience
Farmside
Potion Punch 2+
Bugs and requests
Farmside
Reported bugs
5 issues- Character getting stuck in corners
- Inability to exit edit mode for structures
- Visitors requesting items player cannot make
- Disappearing resources after harvesting
- Inconsistent save data and progress loss
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to zoom out further
- Option to automate repetitive tasks
- More diverse character customization
- Expanded farm areas and decorations
- Multiplayer co-op and community features
Potion Punch 2+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Farmside
No in-app purchases
Potion Punch 2+
No in-app purchases
Questions
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