Cooking Fever: Restaurant Game vs Plants vs. Zombies™ 2

How do Cooking Fever: Restaurant Game 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 Fever: Restaurant Game	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	variable	medium
Rating	4.5 / 5	4.7 / 5
Ratings count	339,354	432,148
Reviews say	What players like Addictive time-management gameplay across diverse cuisines Hundreds of restaurants and levels to unlock Decorate and customize your restaurants Common complaints Gems are extremely difficult to obtain without real money spending Frequent ad interruptions that sometimes freeze the app Game-breaking bugs including crashes and progress loss	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 Fever: Restaurant Game — Race against the clock to cook and serve dishes across themed restaurants worldwide while managing upgrades and competing in 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.