Comparison

Campfire Grind 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

Campfire Grind

Explore a wilderness, gather resources, and craft to survive. Repair your aircraft to escape the area. Upgrade your base by maintaining a central bonfire and trade hunted goods.

Highlights
  • Explore woods with a torch
  • Repair plane to escape
  • Evolve base with bonfire
  • Hunt and sell food
  • Crafting and survival mechanics
Features
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- Use your torch and explore woods! - Find a way to repair plane and leave. - Evolve your base by supplying bonfire! - Hunt for food and sell them.

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

Campfire Grind4 screens
Dungeon Cook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dungeon Cook at 100% against Campfire Grind's 20%. Dungeon Cook also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). Campfire Grind's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price 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

Both are free to download. Dungeon Cook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Campfire Grind asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Campfire Grind ships an update every 4 days, Dungeon Cook daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Campfire Grind versus Dungeon Cook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCampfire GrindDungeon Cook
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size139 MB2.1 GB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperAny Games OUMY AR UNIPESSOAL LDA.

Customer experience

Campfire Grind

All ratings9 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

Dungeon Cook

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

In-app purchases

None

Campfire Grind

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Dungeon Cook

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Game$14.99

Questions

Is Campfire Grind free?
Campfire Grind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dungeon Cook free?
Dungeon Cook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Campfire Grind or Dungeon Cook have ads?
Campfire Grind shows ads; Dungeon Cook does not.
Which is updated more often, Campfire Grind or Dungeon Cook?
Campfire Grind ships an update every 4 days, and Dungeon Cook daily. Most recently, Campfire Grind was updated on October 24, 2026 and Dungeon Cook on October 24, 2026.

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