Comparison

Lala's Kitchen vs Forgotten Town

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

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About

Lala's Kitchen

Features
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Welcome to Lala's Kitchen, a calm, cozy match-3 puzzle game built for players who want to unwind, not race a clock. There's no timer counting down. No energy meter forcing you to wait. No pressure to keep up. Just warm, hand-illustrated ingredients, satisfying matches, and a kitchen that's always ready when you are. FEATURES - Dozens of handcrafted levels, each with its own gentle challenge - Collect recipe cards as you play, building a real cookbook of rewards - Special combinations that spark satisfying chain reactions - A calm, player-controlled hint if you ever get stuck, never forced on you - Optional sound and haptics, off by default, because quiet is often better - Nothing to buy. Ever. Just play. Lala's Kitchen was built with one simple idea in mind: a puzzle game should feel like a warm afternoon in a kitchen you love, not another notification demanding your attention. Come cook, come relax, and take exactly as long as you'd like. The pot's always warming.

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Forgotten Town

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A little town. A missing story. Yours to find. Forgotten Town is a cozy merge adventure with a real mystery underneath it. Merge everyday objects into better ones, deliver what each repair needs, and bring a hundred and fifty abandoned places across fifty regions back to life โ€” from an old house and its walled garden to a sunbeam motel, a police station, a train station, a cabin by the lake, and on toward the dam that was never going to fail. Every object you restore leaves something behind. A photograph. A ticket stub. A ledger nobody closed. Pin them to the evidence board, meet the suspects, and work through a hundred linked cases, each one turning the town's quiet story a little further. A wrong answer never locks you out. WHAT IS INSIDE - 2500 orders across 50 regions of 50 levels, each with its own items, costs and rewards, then repeatable town orders once the story is told - 150 restoration areas, each with three illustrated states as you repair them, plus finishing touches to make each one yours - 100 linked cases built from evidence you actually earned, with suspects and clues on an evidence board for every region - 18 merge chains across 101 item tiers, each tier announced the first time you make it - Burst production, so a full energy bar can go out in one tap instead of twenty - Daily tasks, a weekly task and a seven-day lantern streak - The Forgotten Archive of collectible evidence, a new Weekly Mystery every Monday, five story seasons and a Records page, all open after the story and all optional - Original music and sound, written for this town - 16 languages, including full right-to-left Arabic PLAY IT YOUR WAY The whole game works offline. Continue as a guest and you need no account, no payment and no advertisement to reach the end. Sign in with Google, Apple or email only if you want your town to follow you to another device. Energy sets the pace of a session. It refills on its own over time, and every chapter and every finale gives some back. When you want more right now, a rewarded advertisement (up to three a day), a few gems or the store can refill it. Nothing is ever walled off. HONEST ABOUT ADS Levels 1 to 5 have no advertisements at all. From level 6 you may choose to watch a rewarded advertisement for extra energy or a bigger level reward โ€” only ever because you tapped it. Occasional advertisements between levels begin at level 21 and never interrupt a merge, a conversation or a case reveal. There are no banner advertisements and none when the game opens. Remove Ads is a one-time purchase that permanently stops every forced advertisement. It deliberately leaves the optional rewarded ones available, in case you still want the energy. No subscriptions. Ever.

Screenshots

Lala's Kitchen4 screens
Forgotten Town4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lala's Kitchen at none against Forgotten Town's 6. Forgotten Town's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Forgotten Town sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Lala's Kitchen asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lala's Kitchen ships an update every 10 days, Forgotten Town every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Lala's Kitchen versus Forgotten Town: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLala's KitchenForgotten Town
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size47 MB99 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin WoodBURAK YILMAZ

In-app purchases

None

Lala's Kitchen

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Forgotten Town

One-time6
  • Small Gem Pouch$1.99
  • Starter Pack$2.99
  • Energy Pack$2.99
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  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Medium Gem Chest$4.99
  • Large Gem Vault$9.99

Questions

Is Lala's Kitchen free?
Lala's Kitchen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Forgotten Town free?
Forgotten Town is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lala's Kitchen or Forgotten Town have ads?
Both Lala's Kitchen and Forgotten Town show ads.
Which is updated more often, Lala's Kitchen or Forgotten Town?
Lala's Kitchen ships an update every 10 days, and Forgotten Town every 2 days. Most recently, Lala's Kitchen was updated on October 31, 2026 and Forgotten Town on October 31, 2026.

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