Comparison

Cafe Master Story vs dead air

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

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About

Cafe Master Story

Experience the joy of running your own coffee shop in this charming simulation game. Design your cafe, brew a variety of drinks, create delicious combo meals, and attract customers to become a five-star establishment. Expand your business to new locations and discover new patrons.

Highlights
  • Design and furnish your cafe
  • Brew various coffee and tea drinks
  • Create combo meals
  • Enter food contests
  • Expand to new locations
  • Pixel art graphics
Features
Currently charting
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Have you ever wanted to run your own coffee shop? The smell of fresh roast beans, the gurgling of the espresso machine, the sheen of a squeaky-clean counter... All this and more await you in this quirky sim game! Just set up your tables and counter seats, and wait for the customers to come rolling in. Add handy features like magazine racks, or chic furnishings to give your cafe a more welcoming atmosphere. Coffee and tea are just the beginning—there's a whole world of hot and cold drinks out there just waiting to be discovered! Try out different combinations to make your regulars happy, or attract new customers. You can even recommend your favorites via the Specials Board. Feel like a little something on the side? Combine food items with drinks to create Combo Meals. These can also be entered into contests—pick the right meal for the right theme, and you're sure to win it big and make your cafe even more popular! You're not just limited to one town, either. You can move your cafe to several new locations and discover new customers. You may even encounter some familiar faces... So, what are you waiting for? Grab an apron, boil up some water, and get started on your journey to becoming a five-star cafe! Supports drag to scroll and pinch to zoom. Search for "Kairosoft" to see all of our games, or visit us at http://kairopark.jp Be sure to check out both our free-to-play and paid games! Kairosoft's pixel art game series continues! Follow us on Twitter for the latest Kairosoft news and information. https://twitter.com/kairokun2010

About

dead air

Learn Morse code through interactive drills and a unique combat game. Master sending and copying characters with adjustable speed and pitch. Progress through lessons and unlock achievements in this offline, ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Morse code drills using the Koch method
  • Sending and copying skill practice
  • Combat-themed game progression
  • Adjustable speed (5-25 WPM) and pitch
  • Endless practice mode
  • 58 achievements
  • In-app field manual
Features
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dead air teaches you morse code. it goes about it the way the old typing tutors did. you drill, the drills get harder as you get better, and there is a game wrapped around them so you come back tomorrow. the method is koch, which is how morse has actually been taught since the 1930s. you start at full speed with two characters. once those stick you get two more. no charts, no counting dots, no memorizing a tree. twenty lessons, forty characters including numbers and punctuation, then a last run where all of them turn up at once. there are two skills in morse and the game grades them apart. sending is one. you tap out characters on a straight key, short for a dot and long for a dash, and the timing has to come from you. copying is the other, and it is the one that takes longer. nothing is written on screen for it. you hear a character and answer on the keypad. the game around the drills: a radio station in sector 55 is being overrun, and you clear the people coming for it by keying or copying whatever they carry. six kinds turn up. one of them speeds up when you get it wrong, one takes two correct answers, one blacks out the characters near it, and every third lesson finishes with a boss that needs five clean answers to put down. also in it: - an endless practice mode on a rolling set of characters, for when you only want reps - speed from 5 to 25 words per minute, and a pitch control for the tone - 58 achievements, one for every lesson on each of the two tracks - a field manual covering morse, the koch method, every enemy and how the lessons work, so you are not reading a wiki in another window - a key tester for finding your timing before anything is coming at you the tone is generated as it plays rather than read off a sound file, so the pitch control does what it says and the timing is what you set. no account, no network, no ads, no telemetry. your progress is three files on your own device. music by freshley crusher. digital gangster for eternity. rip to the fallen homies. momino is beautiful and amazing. written by ytcracker (KR4CKR) and clord. (c)2026 digital gangster enterprises, llc

Screenshots

Cafe Master Story4 screens
dead air4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: dead air at Free against Cafe Master Story's $6.99. dead air also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Cafe Master Story's advantage is ratings volume (224 vs 1) and chart position (#160 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

dead air is free to download; Cafe Master Story costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

dead air holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cafe Master Story has 224 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Cafe Master Story's written reviews are positive against 100% of dead air's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cafe Master Story ships an update every 5 days, dead air daily. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Cafe Master Story versus dead air: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCafe Master Storydead air
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (224 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings224 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#160 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKairosoft Co.,Ltddigital gangster enterprises, llc

Customer experience

Cafe Master Story

All ratings224 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral1.8%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews168 reviews
Positive81.5%
Neutral10.1%
Negative8.3%

dead air

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Cafe Master Story

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Rank up button not appearing for some users
  • Recruitment system becoming stuck for some
  • Occasional crashes or save issues reported

Requested features

5 requests
  • More drink and food recipes to discover
  • Ability to destroy/rearrange items more easily
  • Longer gameplay duration or replayability
  • Achievements or other progression systems
  • Compatibility improvements on older devices

dead air

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Cafe Master Story

No in-app purchases

None

dead air

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cafe Master Story free?
Cafe Master Story costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is dead air free?
dead air is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cafe Master Story or dead air?
dead air is rated higher. Cafe Master Story averages 4.7 out of 5 from 224 ratings, while dead air averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cafe Master Story or dead air have ads?
Neither Cafe Master Story nor dead air shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cafe Master Story or dead air?
Cafe Master Story ships an update every 5 days, and dead air daily. Most recently, Cafe Master Story was updated on October 19, 2026 and dead air on October 5, 2026.

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