Comparison

Stardew Valley+ 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

Stardew Valley+

Cultivate a new life in this open-ended farming RPG. Build your dream farm, raise animals, grow crops, and explore mysterious caves. Customize your farmer, start a family, and become part of a vibrant community.

Highlights
  • Build and customize your farm
  • Raise animals and grow crops
  • Explore caves and fight monsters
  • Customize farmer and home
  • Settle down and start a family
  • Engage in community events
  • Mobile-specific controls and auto-save
Features
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Move to the countryside, and cultivate a new life in this award-winning open-ended farming RPG! With over 50+ hours of gameplay content and new Mobile-specific features, such as auto-save and multiple controls options. **Winner of the Golden Joysticks' Breakthrough Award** **Nominee of Game of the Year 2017 - BAFTA Games Awards** --- BUILD THE FARM OF YOUR DREAMS: ■ Turn your overgrown fields into a lively and bountiful farm ■ Raise and breed happy animals, grow a variety of seasonal crops and design your farm, your way ■ Customize your farmer and home! With hundreds of options to choose from ■ Settle down and start a family with 12 potential marriage candidates ■ Become part of the community by taking part in seasonal festivals and villager quests ■ Explore vast, mysterious caves, encountering dangerous monsters and valuable treasure ■ Spend a relaxing afternoon at one of the local fishing spots or go crabbing by the seaside ■ Forage, grow crops and produce artisan goods to cook up as a delicious meal ■ Rebuilt for touch-screen gameplay on iOS with mobile-specific features, such as auto-select to toggle quickly between your farming tools and auto-attack to swiftly take down fiendish monsters in the mines ■ Continue farming from where you last left off with auto-save (even if you close the app!) ■ Play the game your way with multiple controls options, such as touch-screen and virtual joystick ■ Newly Updated Single Player Content - Including new town upgrades, dating events, crops, fishing ponds, hats, clothing, and new pets! Plus more to be discovered... --- “The best version of Stardew Valley is the one you have with you … This game is absolutely incredible, and will not disappoint.” - TouchArcade "Stardew Valley beautifully combines farm simulation with RPG elements to create an intriguing, absorbing rural world." - IGN “Far more than just a farming game... filled with seemingly endless content and heart.” Giant Bomb "Village life has never been so accessible and satisfying" - The Telegraph “Stardew Valley has been the most rich and heartwarming experience I’ve had in a game in years.” CG Magazine --- Note: Features new 1.6 update story content, multiplayer functionality not supported. No in-app purchases. *All accolades belong to the App Store version of Stardew Valley, except for the following, which belong to the original title: Golden Joysticks' Breakthrough Award, BAFTA Games Award nomination, and comments by Giant Bomb and the Telegraph.

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

Stardew Valley+4 screens
Potion Punch 2+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Potion Punch 2+ at 4.8 against Stardew Valley+'s 4.2. Potion Punch 2+ also leads on monetization model (free vs paid). Stardew Valley+'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

Potion Punch 2+ holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.3K and 3.6K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Stardew Valley+'s written reviews are positive against 56% of Potion Punch 2+'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stardew Valley+ ships an update every 2 weeks, Potion Punch 2+ weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stardew Valley+ versus Potion Punch 2+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStardew Valley+Potion Punch 2+
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (2.3K ratings)4.8 (3.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.1% of reviews — better55.5% of reviews
Number of ratings2.3K3.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size447 MB808 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperConcernedApeMonstronauts

Customer experience

Stardew Valley+

All ratings2,208 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews631 reviews
Positive60.1%
Neutral14.7%
Negative25.2%

Potion Punch 2+

All ratings3,538 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews461 reviews
Positive55.5%
Neutral19.1%
Negative25.4%

Bugs and requests

Stardew Valley+

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Game crashes when processing geodes
  • Inability to access certain shops
  • Stuck fishing reel sound
  • Freezing during combat encounters
  • Inability to start a new game

Requested features

5 requests
  • Multiplayer support
  • Ability to save progress manually
  • Improved UI optimization for notched devices
  • Controller support
  • Faster updates to match PC version

Potion Punch 2+

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Stardew Valley+

No in-app purchases

None

Potion Punch 2+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stardew Valley+ free?
Stardew Valley+ 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, Stardew Valley+ or Potion Punch 2+?
Potion Punch 2+ is rated higher. Stardew Valley+ averages 4.2 out of 5 from 2.3K ratings, while Potion Punch 2+ averages 4.8 from 3.6K ratings.
Do Stardew Valley+ or Potion Punch 2+ have ads?
Neither Stardew Valley+ nor Potion Punch 2+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stardew Valley+ or Potion Punch 2+?
Stardew Valley+ ships an update every 2 weeks, and Potion Punch 2+ weekly. Most recently, Stardew Valley+ was updated on October 25, 2026 and Potion Punch 2+ on October 26, 2026.

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