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Cooking Life: Kitchen Diary – Simulation Game Review
Cooking Life: Kitchen Diary is a Simulation/Strategy/Lifestyle game from Art Ocean Inc., first launched in 8th September 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,530+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Cooking Life: Kitchen Diary Stand Out
Welcome to Cooking Life and Start your best Cooking Hot Life in 2020. Get ready for the New Cooking Home Game? Dash into your tasty town and design your cooking restaurant, cater customers with top-quality dishes! Those real cooking fevers would motivate your cooking craze in this casual strategy restaurant games! Come and feel the cooking fever!
Expand our culinary skills and serve delicious food to earn achievements in a fantastic and time management cooking home game! Just simply download the kitchen content and start your COOKING LIFE!
FEATURES:
Cook top-level cuisines from around the world!
Match food to customer orders with challenges, boosts, mini-events, and puzzles!
Bake donuts, cook cookies, grill burgers and tasty steaks!
Enjoy the Smoothest game operations and the Easiest gameplays!
Utilize time management skills for yourself and create the empire of restaurant!
Earn tips from restaurant renovations!
Customize your clothes, restaurants and decorations!
Involve special EVENTS and popular tournaments.
Play with your friends to experience as a real chef and manage a restaurant together!
No need Internet after the initial install, loading process becomes more simple!
Let's imagine this scenario:
When you spend a long workday and back to home, you are losing the courage and hope about life. Then, you notice the picture on the bedside table and recall all the memory about your grandpa…
In the next day, you are in the coach with the picture and back to your hometown. In the car, your finger is touching the frame and fall asleep. When you wake up, you would see the colorful buildings in the hometown. Everything is as beautiful as the memories. After seeing strangers in familiar streets and restaurants, you walk to the door of Grandpa’s restaurant.
Now a brand new energetic cooking game is Online!
What are you waiting for? Let's Cook & Design your Cooking Home!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Cooking Life: Kitchen Diary is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th January 2021
Recent improvements include:
1.New customer is online!
- Other optimization and adjustment!
Download & Availability
Cooking Life: Kitchen Diary is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Cooking Life: Kitchen Diary on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
It takes part for this game but we do love it its a stress reliever.
Why do you need gems to upgrade your basic kitchen equipments? Arent the equipment essential to pass at least a level? Dont tell us its strategy and plan ahead or log in everyday to collect gems, yea, by the time Im able to pass level 3, it would be a year later collect gems to buy basic equipment.
Far too many ads and theyre way too long. You spend more time on ads than on the game. Also its nearly impossible to get through more than a minute of the game before time is up. Will delete.
Updated today and now its a glitch. Im losing lives because what we select to make doesnt work so cant process orders in levels.
Game is fun. But keep running into issues where the game freezes after you past any level.
We keep trying to put on our apron and it crashes. We uninstall and install the game back & still does the same thing.
This game is blinking off of our phone screen. We play it for a little while but it needs to be fix ASAP. We rate it as a two stars because we cant play it.
We know theres a lot of ads but Im 10 and we have cooking experience best cooking game ever.
The last restaurant is the Sushi restaurant? No more.
This is really entertaining but a problem. This is fun and addicting but there are some flaws like ads so thats why it is a 4 not a 5.
It feels like a rip off of cooking diary, but the graphics and gameplay are unsophisticated. We think its the game grows it could get really good.
There are to many ads but its good :) :].
We really like this game but it has ended on the Sushi Restaurant for MONTHS, now. We think , since last year.
When is new update will be out.
Is this game just going to end on sushi restaurant.
Great game its very similar to cooking diary but costs less and rewards are awesome. Our only complaint is that its too many bugs we will probably go back to playing cooking dairy until these buys are fixed. Current bugs Im experiencing are – level freezing, guild freezing (keeps telling us connection issues but we can play our other games just fine) movement are laggy a lot. Also please add more outfits that isnt similar to cooking diary because we dont want to play the exact same game.
Game is good, just like cooking diary which imo is better. This game you cant join a guild, if you create your own, you cant leave it.
Another good game that self sabotages. This game is fun we enjoy it but Im not able to give more than 2 stars. In games like these you watch a lot of ads to earn needed items we have no problem with that. You do end up choosing to watch quite a few and it benefits the game, all good. BUT this game has forced pop up ads (incredibly annoying) along with the ones you can choose to watch. Thats a HUGE no! That means they dont care about the customers or the game. Its a scam. Greed is their only motive. Cooking Diary is just like this game but because no forced pop up ads they get 5 stars. We dont understand ruining your own game like these devs but they will learn that people will abandon a game like this because there are games out there where the devs actually care about their game and customers.
So we do like youre game but we cant connect it to Facebook which makes us annoyed because we would like to invite our friends to play. When will this issue be fixed.
There are only 7 restaurants in the game and there seems to be zero plan for new ones. Also, there are only a few outfits to acquire. It appears the developers have abandoned this game as there is literally NO work being put into it. Such a waste.
Upgrades cost to many rubies smh.
So far we like the game its fun.
- Expensive upgrades with coins and gems 2. Graphics could be more crisp and clear.
Yes its like cooking diary, but has its own style. We would give this a 5/5 but there are a couple of levels that make you fail on purpose that keep forcing us to use items to be able to advance. It being the serve x amount of people. If we serve everyone on time with 30 seconds to go why arent there other people to serve? Ive had less customers than the level requirements which is really annoying.
We hate how it keeps telling us what to do. It makes us buy things and makes us use boost.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.13
- Size: 245.94 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Art Ocean Inc.
Last updated: 9th January 2021 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Art Ocean Inc.