Cooking Dash™ is a time-management simulation game for casual players, featuring restaurant-themed kitchen challenges on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#141
▲1Games · grossing
Sentiment
4.1
571k reviews
Nemesis
Cooking Fever: Restaurant Game
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Players return to the app for the high-frequency, rhythmic kitchen-service loop that provides a familiar, relaxing progression experience.
For Casual gamers interested in time-management and simulation games with a preference for progression-based rewards.
What does it look like?
Key features
Fast-paced kitchen simulation requiring meal preparation and service for customers in a studio setting.
Daily spin mechanic awarding in-game currency, recipes, and power-ups.
Crafting system for special recipes that attract VIP customers and provide profit-boosting powers.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model relies on ad-supported gameplay and IAP for virtual currency, with random item selection mechanics.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceopaqueShow more...
With the latest release occurring 317 days ago and no new feature builds appearing in the recent history, the app is in a maintenance phase. The development cadence is extremely low, averaging less than one release every three months across the observed window. All recent updates consist solely of generic bug fixes and performance optimizations, indicating a lack of active feature development or live operations. The project has effectively stalled, with the last meaningful update occurring in 2020.
Who built it?
Glu Games
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What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads mixed. Users appreciate the core cooking and time management gameplay loop remains highly addictive for long-term returning players and the visual design and restaurant themes provide a satisfying and engaging experience for casual players, but report frequent forced downloads of restaurant assets every time the app launches disrupt the user experience.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The core cooking and time management gameplay loop remains highly addictive for long-term returning players
- The visual design and restaurant themes provide a satisfying and engaging experience for casual players
- Frequent forced downloads of restaurant assets every time the app launches disrupt the user experience
61 of 104 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Cooking Dash™
How's the Games market?
Cooking Dash™ sits #119 Grossing in the US Casual Games category. The gap between its established brand presence and current grossing rank signals monetization friction relative to its discovery advantage.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Nordcurrent UAB
The most direct rival in the time-management sub-genre, matching Cooking Dash in scale, longevity, and the core 'serve-at-the-counter' gameplay loop.
- Significantly larger variety of restaurant locations and cuisines
- More frequent content updates and technical stability
- Less aggressive monetization gating for core progression
Cooking Diary® Restaurant GameContender
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Key takeaways for Cooking Dash™
Where is it heading?
Casual simulation traffic is consolidating around modern entrants with more frequent live-ops, leaving the current maintenance-mode cadence exposed to churn. The lack of meaningful feature expansion over the last three years suggests the app is in a defensive posture, where technical stability is the only lever left to defend the existing player base.
- Frequent forced asset downloads disrupt the user experience, which compounds the churn pressure already visible in the review sentiment.
- Users report: Persistent reports of missing in-app purchases drive accusations of deceptive billing, damaging brand equity and long-term player trust.
The SWOT
- Decade-long retention loop sustains organic install velocity
- Implementing reliable cloud-save would reduce churn for switching players
Next best moves
Ship cloud-save synchronization because it is the top-requested missing feature → unlock data-loss frustration
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's #119 grossing rank is not a failure of the core loop…
Read the full takeSince the last report: Technical instability and the absence of cloud-save synchronization have become the defining characteristics of the user experience, overshadowing the core gameplay loop. The app has transitioned into a defensive maintenance posture as these operational failures drive churn.
Bottom line
Prioritizing a stable cloud-save mechanism would address the primary churn driver for long-term users, securing the base against technical attrition. The current reliance on aggressive difficulty spikes to force IAP conversion is a short-term lever that risks the app's long-term viability.
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Is Cooking Dash™ still fun for casual players in 2026?
Does Cooking Dash™ have intrusive ads?
Is it possible to save my progress across devices?
What are some alternatives to Cooking Dash™?
Sources
- [1] App Store, source
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