Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy vs Evony

How do Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy and Evony 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 Madness-Kitchen Frenzy	Evony
Genre	Strategy	Strategy
Price	Free	Free
Difficulty	hard	medium
Ad intensity	high	medium
In-app-purchase pressure	high	high
Typical session	variable	long
Rating	4.9 / 5	4.0 / 5
Ratings count	779,599	179,249
Reviews say	What players like Addictive gameplay with 80+ themed restaurants and 3000+ levels Relaxing and aesthetically pleasing visuals Tap-to-cook controls make it easy to play casually Common complaints Ads after nearly every level, mandatory to watch for rewards Later levels become nearly impossible without paying for boosters Weekly pass now forces ads to claim rewards (recent greedy update)	What players like Global community with real-time translation and alliance features Deep strategic city-building and troop training mechanics Multiple civilization options for aesthetic customization Common complaints Severe app crashes on iPad and Apple devices, unresolved for months Heavily pay-to-win with non-paying players at severe disadvantage Deceptive advertising claims action/shooter gameplay that doesn't exist

Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy — A time-management cooking game where you run exotic restaurants worldwide, perfecting hundreds of recipes across 3000+ levels. (rated hard difficulty, high ad pressure) Evony — A real-time strategy MMO where you build empires, train troops, and wage epic wars across seven kingdoms—if the app doesn't crash first. (rated medium difficulty, medium ad pressure)

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