Cooking Fever Duels: Food Wars Reviews

by Musikate01

I’ve played Cooking Fever for years. Here are my criticisms of this new game:
1. None of my upgrades in the old game transfer here.
2. When you bake a cake (bakery), by the time it’s done, the customer is gone and you have to throw it away! I couldn’t serve any cakes, only drinks.
I’ll be deleting this game until these issues are fixed.

by MC2rd

This game is very “sticky” meaning when you try to put the condiments on or grab a plate or move a food item, it’s SO hard. You have to go back three times and re-pickup items. So annoying when the play time is already impossible.

by Cooking Bro 12345

When I first played this game I thought you get free gems and a bunch of other rewards on cooking fever by completing quests. However, when I did the exact same thing that the quests said, I didn’t get the gems. What just happened?!🤔Also, why is this game making unfair matchups. I got destroyed by somebody who was way higher than me and that made me weaker. I would never recommend this game. If this game doesn’t fix, I will delete this game.

by Peaches & Cocoa

I play the other version of this game but, which is very fun, but this one is not so enjoyable I spent money to upgrade but it seems like that doesn’t even help. It’s taking the fun out of the game when you can’t upgrade to beat the other person. Like other reviews said this would be a great game but you have to spend a whole lot of money to upgrade. This game would be perfect if it’s more like the other game except you can go against other players and duel. So if you guys play this game beware of high bargains on this game.

by Mal$71

I enjoyed playing cooking fever so I figured this game would be just as fun to play. I guess I’m wrong about that. I contacted the people who run CookingFeverDuels on 12/21 and up until this date they have not resolved my issue of me buying a bundle to see if the game was really worth it. All I get are emails telling me they are having tech issues trying to resolve my issue and that’s it no estimated time of when it will be fixed except the first message said about 3 working days. Maybe I need to delete all these games if this is how the service is when having issues with the game.

by Hej25

Keep losing to characters who move way to fast to be able to be human. User experience is horrific. Keep moving objects near plates or people and not having it register at all. The area you need to hit for it to register is too slim, which can be problematic when playing quickly. I do use iPad so larger movements are required, but it’s less of an issue with the regular cooking fever — may be because I can play a little slower. Either way, my movements on an iPad make it impossible to win against what I presume is CPU due to speed or at the very least are people playing on their phone. Really frustrating and disappointing.

by Candi003

I love cooking fever so I was happy to see this new app. I figured it would be something like the duels in the old Restaurant Dash app but instead it’s just a cash grab. CookingFeverDuels consistently matches you against people so far ahead of you in ranking points and upgrades that there’s no way to win without spending large amounts of money. No skill involved- if you pay big money to get your equipment fully upgraded, you win. There’s no guaranteed way to get boosts without buying bundles either. You might win one or two if you can manage to level up but that’s rare. Overall it’s just not much fun.

EDIT: after the vague non response of the developers on my review, I started looking for other people’s opinions on the huge issues this game has and found out that it’s happening to almost everyone playing. Most people think the devs are using AI players to wipe you out with the hope that you’ll pay to upgrade everything and that honestly sounds plausible. I decided to give it one more try before deleting. Played three matches and somehow everyone I played against had an endless supply of cakes or hamburgers and hot dogs and could provide them instantly. No point continuing so I deleted. I’d suggest everyone else do the same until they decide to run a fair game.

by Ugggvgbibuyxdx

First of all, I only downloaded it bc the original cooking fever game said that I would get gems if I did certain tasks in cooking fever duels. I NEVER GOT MY GEMSSSSS. The game is just a off brand version of the original and it could never be better. Also if you already completed all the restaurants in the original cooking fever this game would be so boring. do NOT DOWNLOAD!!! If I could give 0 stars that would be my rating.

by A Longtime Rider

I have been playing Cooking Fever for years, and it is still fun. This game, however, is not. No matter how many upgrades I get, I’m matched against players who wipe me out, with reactions so fast I find it hard to believe they aren’t AI. And when I look at the upgrade menus and see how much work it would take to level my restaurants up, and think how it would still be matching me with opponents who would clobber me—it’s not worth it. Uninstalling.

by Madelyn Sanzio

Game is really confusing and I think the developer thought I was a super human or something. TELL ME WHY THESE CUSTOMERS WAIT .3 seconds for their food when there was still a lot of waiting time left it’s so annoying this game makes me want to break something.

by Teebozz69

The wait times are too short, making It not even a good game to play! By the time you prep the food they are gone.
I am a huge cooking fever fan? Been playing since It came out and I have ever single restaurant maxed out, just waiting for a new one. ( snooze)
So I really wanted to like this game so much as I am always waiting for new restaurants in cooking fever and thought this would be a good game while I wait.

I was wrong. Suprised as I love every single detail of cooking fever

by Fiftyshadesme

App doesn’t even open. Some stupid message about a “fatal error”. Clearly someone Asian made this game or there wouldn't be a very poorly written error message popping up. Maybe go to school and learn some English.

by LordAlocer

The promotional item that buys for both games do not link out.

by Not So Subtle

Too busy, complicated, can’t find the level boards.

by Mom Soccer Crush 14

Do not waste your time with this game. Terrible.

by Trill_gamer

THE CUSTOMERS ARE SO IMPATIENT!!! Its almost impossible, soon as you’re about to serve them what they ordered they CANCEL IT within SECONDS of you trying to get it to them !! So it’s a waist of time before handling someone else’s order, PLEASE FIX IT

by Thegirlwiththegreeneyes

I thought this would be more fun than it actually is. Even with upgrading kitchen items, it seems impossible to get dishes out quick enough. It’s literally a blink and you’ll miss it for some customers

by Karma's Mama

Just started playing this game last night so don’t have a whole Lotta points and I’m being matched up against people that have double or more what my score is. That is totally unfair and takes all the fun out of the game.

by Bee1234-

When I first started playing this game it had levels to complete. Now I can’t find them. Am I missing something?

by Kayla Weed

This game is not skill based. I just started and you putting me up against people that’s level 200. Sorry but I’m going back to the actual game.

by @kyleeklair

I LOVE LOVE LOVE cooking fever so much so it was a no brainer that I would like this game, but I have noticed a lot of delays in the game. Sometimes in the middle of a match certain areas wont let me click like for example it wont let me drag the patty from the pan to the bun. Its really annoying during games that are really close. Overall it is a fun idea, but some fixes need to be made to the functionality of it.

by Sage Short

Being that the game is super new, I expected issues. It needs a patch update, because…
- Sometimes the loading screen lags and it throws you into a match, giving the person you’re playing against a head start in the round
- There's a lag in moving objects from the serving station

I suggest…
- Adding a way to exit a match once it starts but giving players a 10 second penalty or something for leaving, just to give players the option to leave matches
- Adding a way to play against friends for points
- Adding a Casino, like in Cooking Fever for more ways to get those gem things

by Lovesdora

I like that the restaurants are the same as cooking fever. Only complaint is that dragging an item to where u want it to go quickly needs major improvement. It’s wanting u to be way too accurate. If u get the hot dog anywhere near the bun, it should go in. Ur trying to go fast. Please fix! I’ve offloaded the game and will check back in a few weeks.

by N1BBL3$

• As just a Review, you may not think is too important. Well my evidence is that I loved playing cooking fever when I was younger, recently I just got back to playing cooking fever again. Then I got introduced to this game, Cooking Duels
• I love the ideas that it makes you become more competitive by making you go against other players. Although, I did encounter a few problems.
• The touch precision is very off point, this game is all about rushing and the horrible touch precision is really affecting the gameplay. It’s very frustrating when you give the costumer the food and just the tiniest distance from the customer can prevent the meal from going to the customer, which gives the other team an advantage with giving them the food.
• The opponent selecting and sorting is unreasonable. I am beginner and went against people with 200+ wins. The opponent selecting is crucial to the game. This needs to be fixed, I’m not enjoying the fact that I have to go against high win players when I can just go against someone my level, PLEASE fix this.
• With both the horrible touch precision and going against the high wins players, I feel very stressed when I play the game.
• I rate this game a 3/5, it needs some improvement, but I know you developers will exceed our expectations because you brought to this world the iconic game “cooking fever” 😊❤️ I look forward to the improvements😊

by Tryodohxkgxig

Fun game, awesome really. But the software bugs everyone has been complaining about still exist. The user interface doesn’t keep up with movement. You put something somewhere and it doesn’t go. The game lags and starts you in the middle of matches so far behind you don’t have a chance. You get put against players that are either AI or way out of your league. Other than these problems that affect the point of playing the game, it really is awesome.

by Ismail😄😄😄

Very cool game, but major thing that needs to be fixed! The touch response is awful. It wants you to be very exact and precise, yet in this one we need to move quick! I can’t count how many times I missed the party into the bun or dragged food to a customer and it wasn’t precise enough. It’s worse than the regular cooking fever. Fix it please. Also, add more opportunities for those boxes that contain coins and tokens! I feel like i’m always lacking coins and the pink tokens! Not as money hungry as cooking fever though which I appreciate. Matchmaking could use some work, i either get someone insanely better or someone way lower.

by Yurluckystar

This game is fun, but one major bug is that the game will freeze in the middle of the match. There’s no way to restart the match or to get it to unfreeze unless you close out CookingFeverDuels . By that time CookingFeverDuels says I lost the match and my exp. level is decreased.

by Shelly49

Please make it so we are playing ONLY with those that are around our same level/ranking and not with players that are ABOVE us which gives us literally ZERO CHANCE of serving much of anything in the game, let alone winning.

by Katellis28

This game is okay. I was pretty excited when it came out because it’s related to Cooking Fever. The game was very generous at the beginning and gave out lots of rewards, so I didn’t have much of a problem with that like other people. It’s clear that I won’t be able to progress very far without spending some money, though. I’m not super into competitive games, so the main reason I played it was to earn rewards for Cooking Fever. I was able to get a good number of diamonds for Cooking Fever just by playing Cooking Duels. Now that the launch is over, though, I can’t do that anymore. I don’t see myself playing it much in the future.

by MeganC.1010

This had happened for probably the 3 time now. I upgrade an item for a daily challenge, I do the upgrade and I go to clam my reward and the cake stacking loading screen come on and I wait and wait. Till I have to just close CookingFeverDuels and restart it. I come back all the coins and badges I spent doing the upgrade are gone and the item I upgraded isn’t upgraded (robbed..) so I have to it again and finally it works. Just getting tired of being robbed after spending my time playing this game…

by N00b1kenob

I’ve played quite a few cooking games.. was in the #1 worldwide guild in Cooking Diary. Also have played a lot of similar games where touching the screen is required to move items around.

Unfortunately this game is not very responsive at all. It’s not my phone or my screen, it’s the game.

:/ I wish items were easier to move to customers because it’s a fun game, but I’m not going to spend money if it doesn’t work correctly.

by Jklhdhhd

In the beginning of downloading this game, I was excited, because I thought you would get free gems in cooking fever, which luckily I did! However, when I try to message in global chat or in friendliest of social hub, it won’t let me type for some reason. I want to say hi, but it doesn’t let me. Also, whenever I play a match, it always pairs me up with someone WAY higher in rank than I am, which is unfair. Whenever I lose a match, I manage to lose roughly 30 points, even if the opponent is higher in rank, which is also very unfair. Please take these improvements to consideration, and make this game run smoothly. -NiaLenna 🥀

by Mrs. Murfreesboro

I have been using my Apple Pencil with this game, I updated CookingFeverDuels & now my Apple Pencil stopped working. I deleted the Pencil from my ipad & reconnect the Pencil, it still don’t work. It works on other apps, no problem. Please fix this problem

by Now I Have To Enter A Nickname

It’s a fun game however there are a few things that cause frustrations while playing like being kicked off mid game or not being able to deliver the food to a customer even though you have exactly what they need, or some items won’t move even if directly touched and dragged it takes multiple tries.

by CrazyNerd22

It would easier to play if the games were all in one app

by 0nlyNeviie

Alright so basically if you haven’t played this game yet, it’s cooking fever but you actually cook against other players. Like there will be customers and you have to cook and serve the foods faster than your opponent, gaining you a location rating for wherever you’re at (if you play at the fast food restaurant for example, and if you keep winning against other players, your location rating will increase, but if you lose it’ll decrease) and it’s the same for each restaurant. It’s really fun if you’re a competitive person and enjoy trying to get to the top of tournament leaderboards, although there are a few things that bug me. First of all, none of your upgrades, coins or diamonds transfer to this game even tho it’s basically the same, meaning you have to go and upgrade everything again. On the topic of upgrades, upgrading has changed a bit since there are 3 new currencies that you can use to upgrade things (and you don’t use gems to upgrade equipment anymore) but that’s not the issue. The issue with upgrading is that it’s actually much harder to gain coins than it is in the original cooking fever, and it’s hard to upgrade things because now you have to upgrade something like 10 different times before it’s maxed out, unlike cooking fever where you only have to upgrade it 3 more times.

It’s also hard because the new currencies in the game are kinda hard to get, and it doesn’t seem like anything is really helping you unless you upgrade everything to the max. Although there are some good things, like you can add friends, chat with them, and have friendly duels. They have these food themed avatars that you display yourself as during your time playing the game, and in my opinion they’re pretty cute. You just have to progress in the game to unlock more of them. You get to choose your name and everything so you basically have a whole profile. There’s also 3 boosters you can use during matches that are pretty easy to get once you get the hang of the game. I haven’t exactly “beaten the game” yet so I don’t know everything there is to know about it but if you’re reading I hope it aids you in your decision of downloading this game.

by China Cooks

We need Chinese

by Cooking Fever Master🥳

So I saw this game in the cooking fever original so i downloaded it and everything was fine until I got into a match the customers wait time was super short!

There’s nothing wrong with this game just the wait time!

by Pecan0

I just love playing this game it’s awesome

by Payton67297

I just started and when you pick the skip button it automatically ends the game claiming you a victory I literally just kept on doing that for every level XD

by Is The Best Game Ever.

OK so I watch Piper Rockelle‘s video and she said that it was fun so I downloaded it and it is so fun I love it I play almost every day best thing ever and I think you should download it too❤️❤️❤️❤️

by Chiknchuck

It kept giving me the same person over and over and over and over and over again and it was so hard. It was like 104 trophies, but gave me some easy ones too, but it was just yeah I could do better.

by Sneaky Snacky18

It’s great to participate

by Kinggkevvin

Im a real chef, I played cooking fever since it came out in 2014. This game is an Excellent follow up! Game play is very similar plus a new competitive feel to it! I love it!! Great for any age! Music is great too! Feels like cooking fever with a cherry on top!

by # Smiley Face

This is literally the best game in my LIFE! I love this, keep the great work. Kids should play this game(better if there reflex is good)! Anyway glad you read this. Have a Awsome day!

by You Meaghan

I am a China player.Many years ago,I was a child.When Cooking fever
in Chinese App Store ,I played Cooking fever and Airplane Chefs
I like game of your company.I think the new game will launch the Chinese language .My English no well , I hope the company can arrange it as soon as possible.Thanks

by 还不如玩崽崽

正好玩烹饪发烧友觉得无聊了，新游戏很不错👍就是没有中文不方便，期待更好，加油（以上英文由翻译器输入）
It happens that cooking Fever are bored. The new game is very good, but it's not convenient without Chinese. I look forward to better. Come on.

by 雕户雪易誉

I am a Chinese. I have been playing cooking fever since 2018. It is a very good game, but it was later removed from the shelves (in mainland China). Now I feel like I have recovered my childhood when I see this game, but I hope to add Chinese, thank you!