Cooking City: Restaurant Games vs Plants vs. Zombies™ 2

How do Cooking City: Restaurant Games and Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 compare on difficulty, ad pressure, in-app-purchase pressure and what real reviewers say? A side-by-side look, grounded in App Store data.

	Cooking City: Restaurant Games	Plants vs. Zombies™ 2
Genre	Strategy	Strategy
Price	Free	Free
Difficulty	hard	medium
Ad intensity	high	high
In-app-purchase pressure	high	high
Typical session	medium	medium
Rating	4.8 / 5	4.7 / 5
Ratings count	168,043	432,148
Reviews say	What players like Addictive gameplay keeps players engaged daily Variety of global cuisines and restaurant types Many levels and progression through world cities Common complaints Forced ads interrupt gameplay after almost every level Excessive gem costs for boosters vs. low earn rate Pay-to-win progression wall at higher levels	What players like Hundreds of collectible plants and zombies with varied designs Engaging tower defense gameplay that's satisfying to watch Excellent animation and visual design of plants Common complaints Frequent crashes and stability issues on mobile devices High volume of ads, especially unskippable/buggy ones Expensive premium plants ($5 each) gating content

Cooking City: Restaurant Games — A fast-paced time-management cooking game where you build restaurants across global cities and compete in timed service challenges. (rated hard difficulty, high ad pressure) Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 — Deploy an army of plants to defend against waves of hilarious zombies across time periods in this award-winning tower defense strategy game. (rated medium difficulty, high ad pressure)

Data: Apple App Store, as of 2026-07-10. Last updated 2026-07-10.