Royal Cooking vs Solar Smash

How do Royal Cooking and Solar Smash compare on difficulty, ad pressure, in-app-purchase pressure and what real reviewers say? A side-by-side look, grounded in App Store data.

	Royal Cooking	Solar Smash
Genre	Casual	Casual
Price	Free	Free
Difficulty	hard	easy
Ad intensity	high	medium
In-app-purchase pressure	high	low
Typical session	medium	variable
Rating	4.7 / 5	4.8 / 5
Ratings count	181,767	401,432
Reviews say	What players like Colorful graphics and charming visuals Fun and addicting early gameplay Strategic resource management with upgrades Common complaints Ads before each round and after every level; aggressive ad monetization Coin rewards insufficient to progress without paying; coin-gated progression Pay-to-win design forces purchases to advance past difficult levels	What players like Wide variety of destruction weapons Creative sandbox planet/system building Physics-based destruction mechanics Common complaints Ads block/interrupt building menu Game freezes during custom planet creation Infrequent updates and developer support

Royal Cooking — A colorful cooking simulation where you prepare meals and upgrade your restaurant, but face mounting paywalls as you progress. (rated hard difficulty, high ad pressure) Solar Smash — Unleash cosmic destruction by smashing planets and building solar systems with 50+ creative weapons in a physics sandbox. (rated easy difficulty, medium ad pressure)

Data: Apple App Store, as of 2026-10-25. Last updated 2026-10-25.