Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy Reviews

by Smooth&easy

I enjoyed this game and it was entertaining. It was “technically” free. But it’s really very cheap when it comes to rewards. It gives you one or two diamonds at a time and yet the upgrades are costly so if you want to continue to higher stages, you will eventually have to invest. Naturally, it’s good revenue for CookingMadnessKitchenFrenzy developer. But it could get pricy for us players since the “tricks” or extra moves that will earn you the Boosters only get you 2 diamonds. After reaching my budget, it is no longer fun. I got to stage 364 and now I’m done. Also, they change currencies when you reach certain stages. So you’re back to $0 at that point, which is such a cheat. They let you keep the boosters but your cash changes? So all money earned in previous stages do not transfer to this “new restaurant”. In which case, you will have to pay if you want to move on because the upgrade cost is high but winning a level at these early stages only gets you 200 or so. Second, diamond rewards are low but you have to pay 67 diamonds to extend 30 seconds or add more customers. Who came up with this? Really? I am pretty sure I have already spent about $100 at this point. Now I’m done since what I spent money on before is now useless. I’ll just go back to the earlier stages if I want to play this game again. But I’m no longer interested in moving forward. Thanks for the time.

by Nursejeannie2005

I enjoy playing this game, to a point, but then I hated it. It's just another scam, designed to part fools from their money - LOTS of their money. If they wanted to charge me $15 to buy their game, then let me go my happy way to play it, I would happily do so -but they want to make it so every few levels, it is impossible to move on, unless you buy their super powers - over and over and over. NO game is worth all they are trying to get! This is ridiculous! I don’t mind watching a couple of ads here and there to earn boosts - and completing challenges that are difficult but doable to earn them is fine, too… but NO game is worth paying every single day (what they WANT - NOT what I do!) just to play for a little bit! Most days I just play for a little while, then quit when it wants to charge me to play on… but today, I was finally beating the level I’ve been stuck on for weeks, and the stupid game cheated me! In the Valentine challenge, I am constantly beating 6, 7, and occasionally 8, then running out of time on 9 and getting busted back down to 6… but today, I was actually killing it on 9, and the stupid game glitched on me, and no matter how many times I tried to take my hearts out of the oven, the ovens would not open. I give up. Not worth the frustration. The designer has a potentially good game here, but greed has ruined it.

by Opshai

I’m reading through the other reviews and it looks as though everyone has similar issues at varying levels, indicating it requires some skill but… Look, from level 70 onwards I haven’t been able to move forward without increasingly hard to obtain power-ups. Earlier in the game I could get away with using whatever free power-ups were around and earning gems from levels- it was lots of grinding, but not impossible to play freely. But the levels have gotten to a point where the difficulty is so high every level needs a power up. To make any progress further in the game would require my spending money on the game.

Also, I don’t really like to complain about ads in games where you can pay to remove them, but the ads in this game are ridiculous- it asks if you want to watch an ad for in game currency and if you say no, it shows you an ad anyway without a reward. Ads play after literally every level. You definitely could pay to remove them, but I wouldn’t suggest it since you only get so many hours of entertainment before hitting a difficulty spike.

Gonna delete from my phone now, but not before grabbing screenshots to brag to my friend who got me into this game.

by Qassis

So I have paid quite a few times for extra gems and for special events to earn extra awards like Autumn and Winter events. You can’t win anything extra on a level you have already beaten. So it has to be a new level. With that being said, twice now they have had no “New Restaurants” available so they did a trophy level to where can still trying winning some tickets or passes for the events, but then when you win all the trophy levels, you have wait at least a day or 2 for new ones to come up. So I’ve wasted at least $15 trying to play to win the events. And with the events they do give you some good rewards, but there’s nothing available, you can’t proceed with the event. Just really disappointing. And I was really enjoying playing this game and I am apart of a great team. I would like to actually request some money back or get reimbursed with some gems. And I have commented on this before, I really wish when you send a gift to your team members, that you could have a couple of different options instead of an extra life. Maybe like some boosters, but no, still nothing. Trying to debater whether if I’m going to play anymore.

by Dangerjason

The kind of game I wish would just let me play a flat fee to play instead of trying to milk me for money. What you have to pay to get gems is ridiculous considering the bare minutes of gameplay you can generally pull from those gems. I wasn’t even going to leave a bad review because this is just a thing that happens in games now, but I was disgusted by the “piggy bank” that just popped up. It’s this thing were for like 38 hours a “piggy bank” randomly shows up and takes most of your hard earned gems and then guess what? You get to pay for them to get them!! Oh, but don’t worry…it’s at a discount. Cool. Thanks for keeping the gems and not letting me use them when I need them….and then making me buy them from you. The biggest insult is how they make it look like this is a great little feature they put in for the user instead of just another stab at not even letting us get in some honest game play. Why can’t you just make 2 platforms so that some of us can just buy the game for whatever price you think is fair and then we can play in peace! And then other people can just by gems every 10 minutes.

by Nightz

I really like this game I enjoy playing it. However I’m not sure how long I’m going to keep it.
First of all the ads, there are way too many of them! And the way ads are now is you watch the video for 30 seconds then you close it and then it pops up with CookingMadnessKitchenFrenzy Store then you close that then you get a sit in another screen for like another five seconds it’s ridiculous every ad takes like a minute. Add that to the fact that there are ads after every board you complete it’s just way too much!
I even paid to get it ad free it was so much and I don’t do that with any game really. However with the gameplay you get five lives and if you’re on a difficult board you can burn through those lives pretty quickly. And you get one new life with every like 20 minutes so it’s kind of not even worth it. So if I’m on a challenging level I can burn through those lives in like 10 or 15 minutes and then I got a wait over an hour to get my lives refilled just for another 10 or 15 minutes of gameplay. Completely not worth it.

by Avocadolvr

This game is pretty fun and I was cruising along enjoying myself but here comes level 22 and I literally can’t pass it because I keep being told I need more customers. So I can’t figure out if it’s because I’m too slow or if I’d run out regardless. But honestly I feel like I do a pretty good job. I’m filling all the orders, no one has walked away. The only level I’ve failed so far was level 6 of the valentine levels. So back to the customers I need: the only way to get more customers? Pay 67 gems for them. Guess what else? I don’t have enough gems. I’ve played this level like 5 times now. I started out like 20 or more gems short. I have watched ads and I get 2 gems per ad. How many ads do I have to watch? And then what happens on the next level? Do I need to pay for more customers again? This makes me mad because I’m basically being forced to pay real money to get more gems or else I can’t advance in the game. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to pay for in-app purchases WHEN I WANT TO. But NOT because I’m forced to in order to play the game. Disappointed because I was having fun. DEVELOPER: People will pay money for this game regardless. Don’t force us to do it. I would have kept playing and I would have eventually spent money. Now? You lost me.

by Rhapsody13

I’m honestly surprised CookingMadnessKitchenFrenzy is rated so high. I play a number of games like this one and always do well. This game gets WAY to hard to fast. I know it supposed to get harder and I don’t mind that. But I’m only on level 80 and I’m already bored of doing the level so many times. I don’t like that you have to beat the same levels multiple times with different goals just to keep moving forward. Doing extra levels should be for power ups and coins not just to get through. If you want people to complete 25 levels to get to the next round make the round 25 levels. Like I said I don’t mind hard but I don’t want to spend days trying to pass the same levels when I’m this early in the game. I can’t win on any of the mini games, I never even get passed the mid level, without getting tired of doing the same level over and over again and saying forget it. I really do like the concept and the graphics but I’ve had it less than a week and I’m pretty much done with it.

by Wiley1229

This game is great. It’s fun. But does it’s best to give you a run for your money. The purple jewels you need are needed to get any kind of booster. And of course the boosters cost 100 gems. And you barely win or earn enough to ever be able to purchase a booster. The time to get more energy to keep playing the game is too long in my opinion. And the amount of time you get to actually attempt to pass the level is nearly impossible if you don’t have the support of a booster. Running out of time or running out of customers is very irritating. Especially when you need to try and pass the level to win a key to unlock the next few levels to play. Understandably the game is meant to be more difficult the more you level up. But if you don’t purchase the expensive packages with boosters and gems. You barely get to go far in this game. And the packages only come with one booster each. And only 100 gems. Which is the lowest costing package at $2. Which is pricey when you barely get anything useful in return. I think they should take away the energy bar and just allow people unlimited play. And make boosters be available to buy with the coins you make or lower the cost of gems it takes to be able to purchase a booster. And it only allows you to join a group and ask for energy once. It won’t allow me to join another group to ask for energy.

by Linz@44

If you want a cooking game that is challenging this is a good one. It gets increasingly hard for each group of restaurants before finishing and starting a new place with all new food and drinks. As you work through the levels you earn coins which are used to upgrade each restaurants items and food and drinks. The only thing I have a hard time with is that there are levels in each group, usually one or two that you have to beat in order to move on and they are very hard if not impossible to beat without the use of boosters, or diamonds. The game gives diamonds at a rate of a couple here and there and boosters cost around 100 diamonds each, and when you need to add customers to a level to pass it cost 67 I believe. So even repeating levels you are allowed to reply you get stuck frequently if you don’t have diamonds or want to buy packs with real money. Other than that it’s a fun game! I like the mini competitions they run often, and if you win you can get nice boosters and diamonds. Overall fun game but it is geared to needing to buy packs, to progress as you level up.

by Sheadontplay

First I would like to say,, I truly enjoy this game and have spent a lot of real money and time playing it. Very competitive and rewards are given in reasonable ways. My biggest issue with this game is, often times I’ve been able to win a level (easily) Bt it’s as if the system decides if I’ll win or not prior to starting the level. When beating the clock, I thinks it’s extremely important that the costumers come in faster. Then with the staggered customers come the many whom travel all the way across the counter to place an order. It’s a total slap in the face and I find myself yelling at my phone like a child screaming “THIS GAME IS CHEATING!!!!” When midnight strikes, free levels are available. However, if you are in the mist of completing levels you bought with gems you’ll need to finish them before 12. Bcuz I was cheated out of time from staggered slow customers on a easy timed level I’m out of 50 gems worth of levels and trophies. Plz fix this, or at least be of some type of assistance concerning this matter.

by Bonauroa

I’ve been playing this game for years, especially around the holiday season. The rewards have lessened and some levels I can hardly beat. This is coming from someone who wrote a review in the past basically telling people that it is possible to pass levels without money. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. Further, while I do have the add free version, I really dislike the pop up for more gems and coins to get little from watch 60 second ads. The game is fun, but this is ridiculous. Don’t even get me started on this Christmas event. I’m still at level 30 and unless I spent money on boosts it’s simply a waste of time and so hard to beat. The time given for the likes is absolutely unbalanced. Being in a 200+ level, I’m very sure I can get 22 likes but to only get 10/22 is ridiculous and I’m wondering if you guys are now designing the game to simply make money.

I would like to have a dev reach out to me. I really want to support this pass time game but not like that. Please fix the balance.

by LincolnJackson

So I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I don’t still hate the game and I did need some more upgrades but what I’m mad about is something different than my last review. and for some stupid reason I can’t see the review and it’d just like poof...so... but anyway the bad news is that when you get to levels in the game they give you about 15 characters to give food to and then it asks you if you want more customers for 67 gems and you know the games where it’s easy to get coins but then there are like gems or something like that and you use the gems to get better stuff than what you use to get stuff with the coins? This is one of those games but instead of getting better stuff with the gems you get the same stuff you’d get with the coins and it is super hard to like 2 gems so how do you expect us to get 67 of them for literally 3 customers! This is a whole lot more frustrating than the last one cus I could get through those levels without raging every 5 seconds. but with this I can’t.

by C3rose7

I love this game. It is so much fun and was created in a way that you can keep going. In other cooking games, I find that you are not able to pass levels unless paying for upgrades. I love that I can play extra shifts on levels if I run out of money. I also love the special games (The easter and mother day special mini games are awesome) and the creativity with food and restaurants is so appealing!

There is only one problem I recently ran into. I was looking at the booster options but didn’t want to spend my diamonds right away. I went to click the exit button, but something went wrong. It ended up paying for a booster I never use, and unfortunately took half my diamonds. I now have 3 extra boosters of a booster I never use and don’t have diamonds for the upgrade I wanted to make. I would love it if there was a pop up when trying to buy things with diamonds asking “are you sure you want to purchase ‘x’?” Then you could confirm or cancel the purchase. Really small issue and I may be the only one who has this problem 😂

by Reyna Roa

My favorite game of its kind, I’ve always liked this kind of game and tried playing others but unfortunately they were disappointing for many reasons. Not sure why other reviews complain about having to pay for diamonds and such. I am on level 750 and I have 2,465 diamonds with being able to take the liberty to use diamonds for boosts on some levels. My six year old daughter even borrowed my phone and spend 400 of my diamonds lol (of which I was mad and she hasn’t done it since). Of course I did have to complete just about every level to collect so many diamonds (level 3 gives you 5 diamonds each). Completing tasks will also give you diamonds. I do agree some levels are ridiculously hard or even impossible to pass without using diamonds but the game gives you so many it doesn’t even matter and it’s only a couple of levels per restaurant on which you will have to use diamonds. There are quite a bit of ads but come on the game is FREE!

by Pug Avery

Anyone who is reading this, happy 2020!🎉🎊🎈❤️ And,have a good day and night! 🌞/🌜 ( I think the sun and moon look creepy! LOL!😂🤣😆😄)And bless everyone! Prayers to everyone who is having troubles with anything!😊🙂and if anything bad or wrong comes your way, know that God is with you! ( sorry if you don't believe in him 😕, I apparently do!)🙂And I really really like this game! Super fun! You should buy it! So intertaning, ( I think I spelled that wrong.) 🤷🏼‍♀️🙁and such fun! I mean, its AWESOME SAUCE! And I love how I barely ads! And that you can have a character! 👍🏻Cooking fever doesn't! (But still cooking fever is a really good game!)😁 I don't think there's anything wrong with it! Well, I am still at the beginning, just got on the cruise level one.🛥 But so far, It's GREAT! Sometimes it can get challenging and a little hard, but I really like it!😁😍😘😋😜😙😌😊☺️😃😄😁😆😎💕 Bye!

The 9 year old, pug loving girl, Avery 👱🏻‍♀️

by Alijwoo

I started playing during the pandemic and just love it! My favorite thing is that you don’t need ads-you can watch ads to get more coins, or extra life etc. but they aren’t required. There have been times when I was stuck for days on a level but with persistence I made it through. It may seem like you need the boosters or diamonds, but not necessarily. It can seem like it and I’ve paid for extra diamonds etc. but honestly it was bc I was impatient and just wanted to move on from a level. But many times I just bide my time and wait for the daily boosters, watch the ads etc. whatever I can do to earn extra diamonds or coins so I don’t have to spend any money.

I only wish all the game money you make would carry over in other worlds or you could have the option of trading them for diamonds when you enter another world. It’s a fun and challenging game and I’m glad I found it!

by PJ-A

I love these kinds of organization/time management games. I’ve played many and deleted almost that same number after trying them out for a day or so... or 15 minutes LOL. After years of wading through new games, the minute I am ‘forced’ to sit through 30 seconds of advertising, especially when said ads are stuffed in between every round of play, that app hits the trash. Not so with this little gem... Thank you, thank you, thank you to the devs 💖 I’m not really a stingy sort. I believe in paying people for a job well-done. I have, and will continue as long as this game stays on track, to pay a reasonable amount for the pleasure of playing it. I find the the graphics fun and interesting, the controls/touch quality quick and responsive and, so far, I’m truly enjoying myself. I downloaded about 15 apps in the same category and am working my way through the ones I’ll keep. This one has risen to the top. My hardy recommendations to others looking for a fun cooking app.

by Alexa3965

Honestly, I love this game.
If I could give it more stars, I would.

Let’s start with the basic stuff that pleases everyone: there’s basically no AD breaks, though rewards in return for watching a 15-30 second video are there as an OPTION. Gems are fairly easy to collect through completing daily challenges and playing the levels. You spend the gems on the boosters, which honestly, I hardly use anyway.

Something I found genuinely really cool about this game is that when you find yourself in the “real dollars to in-game money” shop tab, and you don’t buy anything, they’ll offer you some free gems in exchange for an ad break. I’ve had the presented to me almost every time, and usually I take it up on the offer.

The levels have 3 tiers of difficulty, meaning each level you can play 3 times over, this gives you the chance to earn more coins, gems, and master keys which unlock the new restaurants as you reach them. I’m currently playing on the third restaurant. I was able to completely upgrade all my items in the shop by the first few levels of each restaurant by playing each level 3 times. Now I have to play a little longer for the upgrades as, of course they’re going to get more expensive as you play on. Where’s the fun if there’s ZERO challenges?

I play this game for hours on end throughout my day, whenever I have free time. I love it so much.

Definitely recommend if you like the classic time-management game!

by Beeree88

A very fun time management cooking game! It’s possible to beat levels without paying a dime. The restaurant themes around the world and food graphics are so cute and appealing to look at and play with, it gets better with each free upgrade. There are 3 types of challenges: keep customers happy, earn the most money with 5-combos, and fulfill the min # of dishes to pass. You’ll want to spend your diamonds on the right boosters that will help you get through tough levels. There are also occasional side special challenges for a change (I wouldn’t spend any game currency on these as they are hard to beat but fun to play) Overall, game has a nice pace to it and can get challenging near the end of each food world. I’m most excited to see their designs in each world, and I am addicted!

Cons:
CookingMadnessKitchenFrenzy does shut down occasionally in the middle of a game, and it could be annoying esp when you’re doing well. Once you open CookingMadnessKitchenFrenzy again, they restore you the life.

by Gsxr16k

What starts out as a fun game, is basically just sucking you in to get you to spend actual money to progress. First of all, the ads didn’t start until day three of playing the game, which I am happy to pay to go away on a game I like. So I did that, no problem. Then you quickly realize that many levels are impossible to beat without boosters that very quickly become impossible to maintain without purchasing them using real money. And then there’s this whole complete bs concept of “energy” where you can’t continue playing once you lose five times. Sure, you can buy more with 100 diamonds, which the game siphons to you 1, 2, and 3 at a time, but is happy to charge hundreds of them for something incredibly menial. Look, I’m a realist: I know games can’t be free and that the companies that make them need to somehow make money. I just wish the approach wasn’t so slimy and underhanded. So hey, keep designing games where levels that aren’t even marked as “hard” are virtually impossible to beat without boosters, and watch people like me delete tf out of your game. [shrug]

by JennB...

This game is fun and addictive to play .. however I hate the fact that the only allow you to get so far in the game and force you to pay money to advance I have beat almost every level and it seems like one you reach the last game on your level they stop you from winning the game until you pay money for jewels. I have beat my last game over and over never missing one customer and they still told me I lost the game. I actually watched my points not count as I’m playing just to see if it was something I’m doing wrong. The bored I was playing said you have to have over 21 likes all of my customers was well satisfied . I should have got 3 stars but the more ppl I pleased the less points I got . I am not pleased with this game and will be deleting it . I even went back to play old boards that I didn’t get a star on just to earn jewels and even that wasn’t enough to get me pass the next level. But as soon as you pay the .99$ or watevr they ask you for you win automatically. SCREW THIS GAME .. I have giving them over 10$ just to advance I’m DONE ..

by Bougity Boug

It’s a fun and addictive game, however, there are some things that make the game more frustrating than fun as you get to higher levels. Food can be accidentally thrown out since the bin is placed right beneath the food and it restarts the level, which can cost a life, if the secondary goal was no food waste. A life takes 30 minutes to regenerate. Food also gets sent to customers other than the one you think you’re serving which can cause you to miss a ‘like,’ in the case when a certain number of ‘likes’ is the goal, and you will fail the level. An extra 30 seconds of play within a level costs 67 gems. The likes are increasingly difficult to obtain as the food combinations increase and mood boosts are limited. The game has a lot of freebies but they go fast. Ads are also plentiful. That said, the graphics are fantastic, the food looks delicious and it gets really fast paced. If you like these things the game will still be enjoyable.

by Hashtagtag

SUPER fun game. Wish there were more levels. What everyone is saying about some levels being really hard is true. You can use gems to buy power ups. Every time you pass a level you get gems. 1st level you get 1 I think, 2nd level 3, and 3rd level 5 gems. If you get stuck and need gems go back through and play levels you didn’t finish to get some. If you’ve done that and still don’t have enough gems, then you’re using your gems too much. I’ve completed every level (290) and have 1169 gems to spare. If you never spend any gems at all you should have 2610 to spend on whatever you want. The game is great.