Comparison

Cooking Dash™ 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

Cooking Dash™

Experience fast-paced time management as you prepare, cook, and serve dishes in exotic restaurants. Earn profits, upgrade your kitchen, and become a celebrity chef. Compete in challenges and customize your character with outfits and pets.

Highlights
  • Fast-paced kitchen action
  • Prepare, cook, and serve dishes
  • Upgrade food and appliances
  • Collect outfits and pets
  • Compete in Series Finales and Trial of Style
  • Spin daily prize wheels
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This game includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items, including a random selection of virtual in-game items. Flo cooks her way to TV fame as a celebrity chef in this fast-paced time management game – COOKING DASH! Sharpen your skill as you prepare, cook, and serve delicious menu items in each exotic restaurant… in front of a live studio audience! Hear them gasp and cheer as you earn profits in each exciting episode! Quirky customers, superstar VIPs, fast-paced kitchen action, and TV fame await! Excel as a chef to beat Series Finales and compete in the Trial of Style, where you can earn adorable Pets & Outfits! COOK YOUR WAY TO STARDOM! Control the fast-paced chaos as you dash your way around the kitchen, preparing meals for crazy customers! Collect tons of tips for excellent service and make those profits! YOU ARE DESTINED FOR FABULOUS TV CHEF MEGA-FAME! HUNDREDS OF EPISODES TO COMPLETE! Tons of fun cooking play across unique restaurant shows like the Vegas-themed Table Steaks, crazy Taco Train, and trendy Hip Stir Cafe with many more on the way! COLLECT AND UPGRADE! Wanna get more successful and famous? Spend your profits on upgrades for food and appliances for your restaurant! Upgrade to shiny stoves, fancy food prep stations, and more to ensure all customers get three-star service! PRIZE WHEELS! Introducing Weldon Brownie’s brand new game show - Spin to Win! Spin a free Prize Wheel every day to win prizes like Gold, Prep Recipes, VIP Tickets, Auto Chefs, Outfits, Pets, and more! OUTFITS & PETS! Dress up Flo in fun outfits themed for each Show, and equip Pets to help you out in the kitchen by auto-serving Prep Recipes! SERIES FINALES! Want to test your skill? Face a gauntlet of challenging levels in a Venue’s Series Finale - experts only! Beat every episode in a Venue with 4 or more Stars to unlock! TRIAL OF STYLE! Try your luck in the Trial of Style! This multiplayer event features different Venues each time - do you have what it takes to be the best? PREP AWESOME RECIPES FOR MORE CUSTOMERS! Make special Recipes in the Prep Kitchen and attract customers with their favorite dishes! They’ll get you more and more famous, drop cool items, and give you special powers to blast your coffers with mega-profits and keep your star on the rise! BECOME SUPER-FAMOUS! Fan the flames of your fame as you start your OWN SHOW full of the most elite VIPs coming to see YOU and your amazing cheffing skills! It’s FOOD and FAME for you as you host the hippest dinner parties in the WORLD in front of MILLIONS of VIEWERS! It’s a TV Chef dream come true! PLAY WITH FRIENDS! Exchange gifts and compete with friends on your never-ending quest to be the best! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!? Show your stuff and feed the hungry stomachs -- and fragile egos -- of the guests and VIPs! Download the FREE Cooking Dash® today! THIS IS THE MOST INSANELY FUN DASH GAME EVER! COOKING DASH now supports iPhone X in true wide-screen! See your favorite Venues in all their glory! PLEASE NOTE: - This game is free to play, but you can choose to pay real money for some extra items, which will charge your iTunes account. You can disable in-app purchasing by adjusting your device settings. - Please buy carefully. - Advertising appears in this game. - This game permits users to interact with one another (eg. chat rooms, player to player chat, messaging). Linking to social networking sites are not intended for persons under age 13. - A network connection is required to play. - A network connection is required to enable certain features/access certain content. - For information about how Glu collects and uses your data, please read our privacy policy at: www.Glu.com/privacy - If you have a problem with this game, please contact us at: www.Glu.com/support

About

Potion Punch 2

Experience a fantasy cooking adventure with unique magical restaurants. Mix potions, forge swords, and serve fantastical customers in this fast-paced time-management game. Upgrade your crew and defend your establishments from villains.

Highlights
  • Magical restaurant management
  • Potion brewing and cooking
  • Hero and creature upgrades
  • Customer attraction and management
  • Restaurant decoration and design
  • Seasonal events and limited-time content
Features
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Cook, bake, serve, and… save your customers from evil monsters and villains?! 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 today! Terms of Service: https://www.monstronauts.com/games/potion-punch-2/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://www.monstronauts.com/games/potion-punch-2/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Cooking Dash™4 screens
Potion Punch 24 screens

Verdict

The call

Cooking Dash™ and Potion Punch 2 both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of Potion Punch 2's written reviews are positive against 32% of Cooking Dash™'s. Cooking Dash™'s advantage is ratings volume (111K vs 6.3K) and chart position (#163 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 Dash™ sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Potion Punch 2 sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Cooking Dash™ against 4.7 for Potion Punch 2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cooking Dash™ has 111K ratings behind it against 6.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 32% of Cooking Dash™'s written reviews are positive against 71% of Potion Punch 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cooking Dash™ ships an update monthly, Potion Punch 2 every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Cooking Dash™ versus Potion Punch 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooking Dash™Potion Punch 2
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (111K ratings)4.7 (6.3K ratings)
Positive reviews32.2% of reviews71.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings111K — better6.3K
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#163 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size205 MB804 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGlu Games LLCMonstronauts

Customer experience

Cooking Dash™

All ratings110,961 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews932 reviews
Positive32.2%
Neutral18.5%
Negative49.4%

Potion Punch 2

All ratings6,264 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews1,356 reviews
Positive71.2%
Neutral10.5%
Negative18.4%

User reviews

Cooking Dash™

From 111K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fun and addictive gameplay
  • 👍 Variety of restaurants and recipes
  • 🚀 Challenging levels and time management

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive to progress without spending money
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔍 Difficult to earn enough gold/currency
  • 📥 Issues with video ads and rewards not working

Potion Punch 2

From 6.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Leagues and miles ahead of Cooking Fever
  • 👍 Can progress without gambling
  • 👍 Endless mode is satisfying
  • 👍 Charming characters
  • 👍 Varied mechanics across shops

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Difficulty distinguishing red and orange potions
  • 🐛 Download issues for additional content
  • 🔋 Mana system can be tedious

Bugs and requests

Cooking Dash™

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game crashes when trying to play certain levels
  • Rewards and progress not saving properly
  • Inability to connect to Facebook to save progress

Requested features

3 requests
  • Bring back free gold from watching ads
  • Reduce cost of upgrades and new restaurants
  • Improve customer service and bug fixes

Potion Punch 2

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Download errors for additional content
  • Crashes and data loss issues
  • Mana not collecting properly when offline

Requested features

2 requests
  • Option to turn off timers
  • Easier way to earn gems

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cooking Dash™

One-time10
  • Handful of Gold$0.99
  • Handful of Coins$0.99
  • Ticket Bundle Low$1.99
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  • Handful of Gold$2.99
  • Handful of Coins$2.99
  • Starbucks Promo!$4.99
  • Stack of Coins$4.99
  • Bucket of Gold$9.99
  • Bucket of Coins$9.99
  • Case of Gold$19.99
15 purchases

Potion Punch 2

One-time15
  • Handful of Gems$1.99
  • Welcome Pack2 variants$1.99
  • Pouch of Gems$4.99
Show 12 more
  • 7-Day Loot Pack$4.99
  • XP Level 5 Pack$4.99
  • Eversand Pack$4.99
  • Shroudland Pack$4.99
  • Bucket of Gems$9.99
  • Elven Pack$9.99
  • Dwarven Pack$9.99
  • 14-Day Loot Pack$9.99
  • Spring 2025 Golden Pass$9.99
  • Summer 2024 Golden Pass$9.99
  • Barrel of Gems$19.99
  • Starter Pack$19.99

Questions

Is Cooking Dash™ free?
Cooking Dash™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Potion Punch 2 free?
Potion Punch 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cooking Dash™ or Potion Punch 2?
Cooking Dash™ and Potion Punch 2 are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 111K and 6.3K ratings respectively.
Do Cooking Dash™ or Potion Punch 2 have ads?
Both Cooking Dash™ and Potion Punch 2 show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cooking Dash™ or Potion Punch 2?
Cooking Dash™ ships an update monthly, and Potion Punch 2 every 4 weeks. Most recently, Cooking Dash™ was updated on September 27, 2026 and Potion Punch 2 on September 25, 2026.

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