Ramen Chef vs Ashley's Carnival Rush
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Ramen Chef
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Ramen Chef: Slice & Serve Welcome to Ramen Chef, the most thrilling noodle making adventure! Satisfy Your Noodle Cravings! Step into the kitchen and unleash your inner chef as you slice and dice your way through a variety of delicious ingredients. From crunchy veggies to savory meats, your culinary journey begins here. Explore Exotic Tastes! Travel the world of flavor by slicing and dicing ingredients from various cuisines. Create authentic and fun new Ramen dishes that cater to global palates. Craft Your Signature Bowls! Put your creativity to work by mixing and matching ingredients, sauces, and toppings. Craft unique bowls that tantalize taste buds and impress hungry customers. Create Your Dream Kitchen! Customize your virtual kitchen space with delightful decorations and charming details. Make your cooking environment as inviting as your dishes. Ready to embark on your delicious journey as a Ramen Chef? The kitchen awaitsโstart slicing and serving now!
Ashley's Carnival Rush
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Ashley's Carnival Rush is a memory game with your hands full. A customer steps up and shows you a ticket. Bun, patty, cheese, no onion. The next one wants a funnel cake with strawberry and a soda. Behind you are three counters โ sweets, savory, drinks โ and forty-eight ingredients spread across them. Build the order exactly, hand it over before their patience runs out, and keep the streak alive. Get it wrong and you break the streak. Take too long and they walk. A STAND THAT GROWS You start on a hot dog cart that sells three things: a hot dog, a hamburger and a soda. One customer at a time, and all the time in the world to read them. The County Fair opens it up to eight dishes across all three counters, still one customer at a time. The Boardwalk seats two. The State Fair seats three, and three at once is genuinely more than one pair of hands can work. Midnight Midway seats three as well, and pushes everything else instead: the shortest fuse in the game, the fastest arrivals, and the longest tickets โ nearly every order comes with something extra on it. Last is the 5th Ave Cart, which sells one thing. Hot dogs, to the fastest queue in the game, at Manhattan prices โ against rent that comes out of every round whether you earned it or not. Work it alone and the rent eats you. Put two hires on it and it pays better than anywhere else on the map. Each fair is unlocked with money AND stars, so getting there means playing well, not just playing often. A MENU THAT CHANGES Every round deals a fresh menu from fourteen dishes. You never settle into one routine, and the counters you need change with it. SPEND IT ON THE STAND Buy new dishes to raise what a round is worth, and hire help. A greeter works the queue so every customer waits longer before giving up on you. A prep cook makes the base of every dish ahead of time. A busser whisks a wrong order away before anyone notices, so your streak survives the mistake. A drinks runner pours every drink, so orders that come with one only need the food built. A sign spinner works the pavement, so the next seat fills sooner. A cashier upsells every single order, a little more on each one, all day long. Change the awning, the bunting, the string lights, the plates, the crowd. THINGS HAPPEN Some rounds bring news. A viral post, a health inspection, a rally in town โ and occasionally something bigger in either direction. Some of it is just luck. Some of it is a decision: a developer wants to buy your pitch, a supplier offers you a crate that is a little off. You pick, and you live with it. WHAT'S NOT IN IT No ads. No in-app purchases. No energy meters, no timers to wait out, no account to make. It never connects to the internet โ there is nothing to connect to. Your progress lives on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ashley's Carnival Rush at none against Ramen Chef's 8. Ashley's Carnival Rush also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Ramen Chef's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Ramen Chef sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Ashley's Carnival Rush asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ramen Chef ships an update every 2 months, Ashley's Carnival Rush weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ramen Chef | Ashley's Carnival Rush |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly โ better |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EPRA GAMES PRODUCOES LTDA | PF DATASTACK LLC |
In-app purchases
Ramen Chef
- Lightning Trail$0.99
- Inkblot Trail$0.99
- Hologram Blue trail$1.99
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- Hologram Green trail$1.99
- Hologram Pink trail$1.99
- Puff Trail$2.99
- Star Trail$2.99
- Ghost Trail$2.99
Ashley's Carnival Rush
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Ramen Chef free?
Is Ashley's Carnival Rush free?
Do Ramen Chef or Ashley's Carnival Rush have ads?
Which is updated more often, Ramen Chef or Ashley's Carnival Rush?
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