Comparison

Cooking Blast vs Pixel Hive

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

Head to head
About

Cooking Blast

Manage a bustling animal restaurant by organizing a colorful queue and solving engaging puzzles. Serve unique dishes to adorable animal customers, overcome obstacles, and enjoy a relaxing gameplay experience with charming visuals and ASMR audio.

Highlights
  • Direct animal queues by color
  • Solve match-3 and sorting puzzles
  • Serve specialty dishes to customers
  • Overcome various in-game obstacles
  • Utilize powerful boosters
  • Enjoy cozy 2D visuals and ASMR audio
Features
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Welcome to Cooking Blast! The animal restaurant is open, and hungry little pals are already lined up, eager for a delicious meal! Organize the line, solve playful puzzles, and serve fragrant specialty dishes to your cute animal customers! Direct the line, seat by color Every animal has unique tastes! Guide the matching colors to their seats based on the dishes at the counter. Stay sharp—Big Eaters that gobble double portions, inseparable BFFs, and shy Mystery Guests who won't show their faces… your line planning is always put to the test! Solve puzzles, serve with joy Giant dishes, Candy Bars, Gummy Snakes, Snack Boxes, Extra Counters, and more are waiting! Clear obstacles with smart thinking—don't let a jam slow down dinner time! You'll also love • Cozy art: soft, fresh 2D visuals and adorable animal guests warm up every session. • Puzzle clearing: innovative line control blends sorting, Merge, and match-clearing in one flow. • Strategic challenge: varied obstacle levels plus powerful Boosters keep you hooked. • Calm immersion: smooth clearing feedback plus soothing ASMR audio make every clear more relaxing. Download now and start your cozy chef Career!

About

Pixel Hive

Engage in a relaxing 3D puzzle game where you direct swarms of colored bees to deconstruct pixel sculptures. Plan your hive releases strategically to manage limited slots and clear each level.

Highlights
  • Harvest matching pixel blocks with colored bee swarms
  • Deconstruct 3D pixel sculptures piece by piece
  • Manage limited hive waiting slots
  • Rotate sculptures to find colors
  • Plan with upcoming hive queue
  • Utilize power-ups like magnet and freeze
Features
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Welcome to Pixel Hive, a puzzle game where swarms of busy bees take apart colorful 3D pixel sculptures, one block at a time. Every level starts with a finished sculpture floating above your hives: a juicy watermelon, a desert pyramid, and many more. Your job is to pick the right hive and release its bees. Each hive holds a swarm of one color, and its bees fly out to harvest only the blocks that match. As the blocks disappear, the sculpture melts away until nothing is left. But there's a catch. A hive whose bees still have blocks to collect flies back and parks in a waiting slot. Slots are limited. Fill them all and the level is over. Success means reading the sculpture, choosing hives in the right order, and keeping the swarm moving without clogging the hive. Rotate the sculpture to spot hidden colors, plan ahead with the hives coming up in your queue, and use power-ups like the magnet, the fan, and the freeze ray when the pressure builds. As you progress, sculptures grow bigger, colors multiply, and every choice matters more. Features - Send colored bee swarms to harvest matching pixel blocks - Take apart beautiful 3D pixel sculptures piece by piece - Manage limited waiting slots before the hive fills up - Rotate sculptures to find the colors you need - Plan around a queue of upcoming hives - Powerful boosters: magnet, fan, extra slot, and freeze - Simple one-tap controls with real puzzle depth - Hundreds of levels with growing size and color variety - Relaxing visuals and satisfying block-by-block clearing Pick your hives, manage the swarm, and clear every pixel in Pixel Hive.

Screenshots

Cooking Blast4 screens
Pixel Hive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Pixel Hive at ad-supported against Cooking Blast's free with in-app purchases. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Cooking Blast sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Pixel Hive sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cooking Blast ships an update every 4 days, Pixel Hive every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cooking Blast versus Pixel Hive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooking BlastPixel Hive
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—20 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size293 MB172 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperAUTUMN STUDIOS LIMITEDPlayoneer LTD

Customer experience

Cooking Blast

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

Pixel Hive

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Cooking Blast

One-time11
  • Grand Opening Offer$2.99
  • Ad Skip Tickets$2.99
  • Ad Skip Tickets$9.99
Show 8 more
  • VIP Lifetime Pass$12.99
  • Ad Skip Tickets$19.99
  • Coins$34.99
  • Ad Skip Tickets$39.99
  • Coins$64.99
  • Ad Skip Tickets$69.99
  • Coins$99.99
  • Ad Skip Tickets$99.99
9 purchases

Pixel Hive

One-time9
  • Mini Coin Package$1.99
  • Double Pack$6.99
  • Remove Ads$6.99
Show 6 more
  • Small Coin Package$7.99
  • Double Pack$9.99
  • Medium Coin Package$14.99
  • Big Coin Package$29.99
  • Super Coin Package$54.99
  • Giant Coin Package$99.99

Questions

Is Cooking Blast free?
Cooking Blast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pixel Hive free?
Pixel Hive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cooking Blast or Pixel Hive have ads?
Both Cooking Blast and Pixel Hive show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cooking Blast or Pixel Hive?
Cooking Blast ships an update every 4 days, and Pixel Hive every 3 days. Most recently, Cooking Blast was updated on October 25, 2026 and Pixel Hive on October 29, 2026.

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