Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy vs Plants vs. Zombies™ 2

How do Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 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 Madness-Kitchen Frenzy	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	4.9 / 5	4.7 / 5
Ratings count	779,599	432,148
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 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 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) 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.