Comparison

MouseHunt vs Dungeon Cook

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

Head to head
About

MouseHunt

Embark on an idle RPG adventure to catch mice across a fantastical kingdom. Craft unique traps, collect magical cheeses, and team up with friends for treasure hunts and tournaments. Participate in seasonal events and discover over a thousand different mice.

Highlights
  • Passive mouse catching
  • Customizable trap crafting
  • Team-based treasure hunts
  • Seasonal hunting events
  • Dozens of unique locations
  • Over a thousand mice to catch
Features
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The Kingdom of Gnawnia needs MouseHunters! Choose from dozens of unique mousetraps with their own elements and powerups. Arm your trap with magical cheese from all over the world, and end Gnawnia’s pest problem - one hunt at a time! MouseHunt is an award-winning Idle RPG Adventure you can play anywhere, anytime. Check your trap throughout the day (and secretly while at work) or join friends and hunt together. *PLAY THROUGHOUT THE DAY* Your trap will passively catch mice for you every hour, all day and night, or sound the Hunter’s Horn to begin a hunt every 15 minutes. Friends adventuring with you can also sound the Horn on your behalf; hunting is always easier in teams! *CRAFT POWERFUL TRAPS* Mix and match your cheeses, weapons and bases to make a winning mouse-catching combination! Mice from all around the Kingdom have different preferences, weaknesses, and behaviours. Study the enemy, craft the perfect mousetrap, and set your bait! Maximize your trap power to catch rare and elusive mice while on adventures! *WORKIN' AS A TEAM* MouseHunt is the only Idle RPG Adventure where teamwork goes all the way! Join multiplayer treasure map hunts and win rare and limited-edition hunting tools and mouse bait. Compete in tournaments and climb the leaderboards with your allies and become a tournament champion! Cover more ground when you hunt mice with your friends! *REGIONAL FRIEND HUNTING* Don't worry if you need to dip away from the adventure while hunting with friends. With Regional Friend Hunting, your friends can sound the Horn on your behalf in nearby regions. Don't be idle in an Idle RPG - sound the horn and help your friends with their adventures! *SEASONAL HUNTING EVENTS* Something exciting is always afoot in the Land of Gnawnia. Your RPG is idle, but that doesn't mean your calendar has to be! Join us for the winter holidays for the Great Winter Hunt, or brew up creepy concoctions during our Halloween event. Check back regularly for new events, updates, multiplayer events and more! And that’s not all! MouseHunters also enjoy: ● Over a thousand ridiculous, fantastical mice to catch, from the mundane Grey mouse to fire-breathing dragon-mice and much more! ● Dozens of unique locations spanning the depths of the Sunken City to the Floating Isles, each with its own ecosystem, puzzles, and progression to explore. ● Hundreds of trap combinations. Mix and match trap types and baits to catch different breeds of mice. ● Frequent community and seasonal events, quests, and minigames. There’s always something new to explore. ● An incredible player community of hunters, traders, and cheesemongers to play, trade, and swap hunting tips with! Check back every 15 minutes for a new surprise! Can you rise to the challenge and be a Legendary MouseHunter? -- Follow us on Facebook for frequent updates and links to FREE LOOT! https://www.facebook.com/MouseHuntTheGame Join the Fan Discord for hunting strategies, or to make friends with your fellow Hunters! https://discord.gg/mousehunt -- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Dungeon Cook

Embark on a first-person dungeon crawl where survival means cooking your kills. Explore unique, living kitchens, battle evolving beasts, and master culinary combat to rescue fellow chefs and rebuild your kitchen line.

Highlights
  • First-person dungeon crawling
  • Culinary combat mechanics
  • Harvest and cook monster drops
  • Eight unique, evolving kitchens
  • Unlockable chef characters with unique decks
  • Procedurally shifting dungeon routes
  • New game plus with increased difficulty
Features
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The dungeon is alive — and it is hungry. It baits you with treasure. When delvers fall, it digests them. That meal becomes bigger halls, denser layers, and more beasts. The glitter is bait. The monsters are the farm. Dungeon Cook is a first-person dungeon crawler with a kitchen at its heart. You walk living corridors, fight with a cook’s cards, harvest what drops on the knife, and time the fire for a clean cook or a perfect one. Pip, a village kitchen apprentice, wakes in the Verdant Threshold with only the Living Cookbook. The rest of the kitchen line is still being swallowed. Cook their signature dishes, set the offering on the altar, and pull them free before they become the next course. EIGHT KITCHENS Each one is its own ecology — not a coat of paint. • Verdant Threshold — eight layers of one fungal forest. Routes shift. Fauna evolves. The Threshold Guardian waits at the heart. • Boiling Brine Depths — eight layers of steam, salt, and pressure. The Brine Sovereign waits in the boiling heart. • Crystalline Meat Gardens — eight layers of singing lattice and jewelled flesh. The Crystal Gardener tends the heart orchard. • Ashen Ember Fields — eight layers of banked heat and patient ash. The Ember Warden keeps the fields from fully dying — or fully waking. • Whispering Root Labyrinth — vines that listen, flesh that borrows, tunnels that finish your sentences. • Hollow Feast Halls — leftover hospitality, unfinished courses that still remember the cook. • The Last Dessert — one frosting-court layer under the last kitchen, and a cupcake who thinks a crown is godhood. • The Final Course — the kitchen that dreamed the dungeon into being. Living gold ink. The Last Table. The first recipe, unfinished. EIGHT COOKS. EIGHT HANDS. Rescue the line and you inherit their deck. • Pip — line cook. Honest knives, block, and small heals. The way in. • Miravelle — range archivist. Bow volleys that grow the more you fire. • Torren — stone butcher. Heavy cleaves, hard block. Slow and costly. • Sable — ember smoker. Smolder, banked heat, recovery between burns. • Rook — root forager. Draw, energy, soft control. • Lira — feast host. Heals and the table. • Vespera — shadow sous. Setup, discard, burst. Fragile if the combo fails. • Sage — first recipe. Grows with every meal you have ever cooked. THE TABLE Treasure is bait. Digestion is growth. Broth’s stall restocks the line. Artifacts and meals rewrite the next fight. The Living Cookbook keeps what the party lost. AFTER THE LAST PLATE Clear the Final Course and a harder table opens. Beasts hit harder. Waves run thicker. Coin and essence come hungrier. Finish a tier to unlock the next. Not infinite — hungrier. TASTE FIRST The first two layers of the Verdant Threshold are free. Unlock the full kitchen with a one-time purchase. No ads. Restore Purchases anytime. One cook. One book. A kitchen that refuses to die. Cook what you kill.

Screenshots

MouseHunt4 screens
Dungeon Cook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dungeon Cook at daily against MouseHunt's fortnightly. Dungeon Cook also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%). MouseHunt's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. MouseHunt sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Dungeon Cook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MouseHunt ships an update fortnightly, Dungeon Cook daily. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MouseHunt versus Dungeon Cook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMouseHuntDungeon Cook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (623 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings623 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB2.1 GB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperHitGrab Inc.MY AR UNIPESSOAL LDA.

Customer experience

MouseHunt

All ratings606 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews612 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral8.3%
Negative21.1%

Dungeon Cook

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

MouseHunt

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to log in or sync account
  • Freezing and crashing on certain actions
  • Inconsistent notifications and timers
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to craft and manage inventory on mobile
  • Improved sorting and filtering options
  • Integration with Apple Watch for quicker hunting
  • Better music/audio controls
  • More seamless Facebook/account integration

Dungeon Cook

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

MouseHunt

One-time10
  • 15 SUPERbrie+$0.99
  • 30 SUPER|brie+$0.99
  • Recipe Unlock$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Spooky Shuffle Upgrade$0.99
  • Snowball Showdown Dust$0.99
  • 100 SUPER|brie+ Bundle$0.99
  • Rare Map Dust$2.99
  • 3 Magical Winter Holiday Hat$4.99
  • 500 SUPER|brie+$9.99
  • 1,200 SUPER|brie+ Plus 600 Mobile Charms!$19.99
1 purchases

Dungeon Cook

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Game$14.99

Questions

Is MouseHunt free?
MouseHunt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dungeon Cook free?
Dungeon Cook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MouseHunt or Dungeon Cook have ads?
Neither MouseHunt nor Dungeon Cook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MouseHunt or Dungeon Cook?
MouseHunt ships an update fortnightly, and Dungeon Cook daily. Most recently, MouseHunt was updated on November 6, 2026 and Dungeon Cook on November 6, 2026.

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