Cooking Fever
Cooking Fever is a highly addictive and fun cooking game, but recent updates have introduced severe stability issues like crashes and server errors, alongside a significantly increased difficulty in earning premium currency without spending money.
Cooking Fever is a popular and addictive cooking game with a long history, praised for its engaging gameplay and variety of restaurants. However, recent updates have led to widespread technical problems, including frequent crashes and server connectivity issues, making the game unplayable for many users. There's also a strong sentiment that the game has become pay-to-win, with premium currency (gems) being much harder to acquire, hindering progression.
What users like
What users complain about
- Frequent crashes and freezing, especially after recent updatesR7R19R25R27
- Server not responding, preventing gameplayR2R6R13R31
- Difficulty in earning gems, pushing players to payR1R4R10R14
- Excessive and unskippable ads that interrupt gameplay and cause issuesR8R21R26R45
- Loss of game progress or saved dataR11R17R21R30
- Unresponsive or unhelpful customer supportR12R15R17R29
- Game speed is too fast, making it less enjoyable or impossible to complete levelsR18R92R98
- Glitches causing levels to fail despite correct play or not saving progressR12R22R30R32
Latest update · v27.0.1
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Various bug fixes and small improvements to make your gaming experience smoother. Follow us on social media, for all the latest news, contests, and more!
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy fast-paced, addictive cooking simulation games and are willing to either tolerate frequent technical issues and ads or spend money on in-app purchases to progress R5R55R57R80. It is not for users who expect a stable, bug-free experience, dislike aggressive monetization, or prefer games without intrusive ads R2R6R7R8.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, focusing on technical issues and monetization. While many positive reviews praise the game's core appeal, the high volume of complaints about crashes and gem scarcity suggests a significant decline in recent user experience. The developer's notes claiming 'bug fixes and small improvements' are directly contradicted by widespread reports of new and persistent bugs and crashes.
Frequently asked
Why is Cooking Fever crashing or showing 'server not responding'?
Is it hard to get gems in Cooking Fever?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 100 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R5] Naomi 🫧🧸🛁🦢: Love this game it’s soo addictive to play keep this up 💕🤍
- [R55] Love definitely a new fav of mine: This game is amazing it’s so entertaining and fun to play worth the download 5 stars it’s also easy and hard at the same time a new favourite of mine to play
- [R57] Addictive-like what it says: This game is so addictive
- [R80] Cooking fever is sooooo fun!: It’s so fun to play when ur bored and it helps your speed to do things faster
- [R53] Epic game!!!: The game is really fun to play. I love all the different types of food and upgrades. It’s very satisfying and I can’t stop playing it.
- [R88] The best cooking game ever: This is the best cooking game I think I have owned this for 9 years or more I love it and the pressure to make food for your customers in a time limit is so fun. Honesty thank you for making this game it’s so fun
- [R90] So good: It’s the best it calms you. It’s so fun challenging when you’re bored. It helps you like focus fail and it’s just so fun. So so so so fun and you should just download it.
- [R7] Crashing on iPad: Game not loading and keeps crashing on my iPad
- [R19] Unable to play: Can’t play due to constant crashes
- [R25] Really fun but keeps crashing: I’ve never had any problems with this game, it’s really fun and one of my favourites but for the past few days every time I try and open the app it crashes and kicks me out of it.
- [R27] App keeps crashing: It has been 3 days since the app stopped working. It keeps crashing upon loading, and it seems to be a worldwide thing as other players are complaining of the same. Please fix this.
- [R2] Great to start with: I’m so frustrated I was really enjoying this game but now every time I open the game it says server not responding try again in 15 minutes. It’s been 2 days that I can’t play the game. It’s a really good game and I had collected a lot of gems but now can’t play
- [R6] Server: The survey has been down for two days now, I cannot access this game, I am not impressed,I am having withdrawals from not playing this game 🥹
- [R13] Used to be a great game....: I started playing this game years ago and really enjoyed it, I then deleted and downloaded it again a few months ago. Everything was fine until this week - when I constantly get a server not responding message everytime I open the game - thus not allowing me to play it. I have let Nordcurrent (the developers) know (at least sent them an email!) and surprise surprise n
- [R31] Constant crashes: I’ve played this game for years, never had any problems until recently. The game has been crashing or displaying “server not responding “ on and off for weeks now, especially when you’ve just paid for a monthly in app purchase
- [R1] Disappointing Update: Been playing this for years, but really disappointed by the new update. Can't say I like the new way of moving between locations, but that is probably just lack of familiarity. What really disappoints me is the halving of the rate of gem drop. Previously you got a reliable two gems daily, ie sixty in an average month. Now, not only are they coming in dribs and drabs but I'll
- [R4] Money: I love this game it’s truly amazing but it’s so difficult to get diamond I have to pay it’s not even able to do it
- [R10] Diamond gain sucks: Everything costs diamonds after 1 upgrade and you can barely get any diamonds without using money. If you don’t upgrade then you can’t pass any stages.
- [R14] One huge money grab: I remember playing this game as a child so was excited to play it again but money is obviously the only goal of the games team these days. The game starts off well with the burger restaurant and it's reasonably easy but now I'm on the cake shop it's getting increasingly pointless playing. The game moves so quickly it is frustrating to play and you can't win without getting upg
- [R8] Unbearable ads!: Love the concept of this game and love playing when I FINALLY get past the relentless ads! It almost makes the game unplayable for me, because I have to sit through so many ads. I don’t mind so much when the ads are interactive and advertising other games, but I get so many adverts for AI-related apps and they will not let me get back to the game. Very disappointing and gets worse
- [R21] Addictive but problematic this last week: Was enjoying sakartvelo new restaurant when after an update it completely eradicated progress. I started again but after every turn the same game advert appears which takes an excessive length of time and will not delete. Extremely irritating, need to sort out the gremlins. Seems like I’m not the only one.
- [R26] Too many ads: Used to love playing cooking fever recently there are too many ads after completing a level where you can’t click off them ruins the momentum and then when you close the app down because you can’t get off the ads you lose your rewards
- [R45] don’t recombine: okay but there is to much ads and there like five minutes long!!!!
- [R11] From 5 stars to 1 … Deleted through disappointment: It was a great game that I really enjoyed playing for many years. I’d built up a good store of gems and had completed every restaurant, including the newest one. However today the game suddenly crashed and when I reloaded it had lost all my progress. I hoped it was a temporary blip which would resolve itself, but after reloading many times over
- [R17] Terrible customer support and constant glitches: I love this game but if I knew the issues I would have I wouldn’t get started. For years it was fine but for the last 6 months I’ve had countless problems. The latest, and most significant is that it’s wiped all my progress across around 30 restaurants that I had completed 3 stars on every level . Then to compensate they tried to give 200 diamonds w
- [R30] A few new bugs: Love this game but ever since the new update there have been so many bugs. When I finish a level at Vilnius manor the screen just freezes and I have to exit the app. Then when I finish a level of Bavarian festival it completely just crashes the app and doesn’t save the progress I got. Another minor thing is every time I open the app which I now have to do a lot it has a notificatio
- [R12] Buggy game: Game is always bugging my desserts went from 3 stars to 1 star, and it got 2 stars in a level but it said I failed. Support does not help they send the same message each time but no one’s helping me fix my issues.
- [R15] Don’t bother: The game has been glitching for months now and when you contact customer services for help you get the same email telling you to download the newest version of the game (which I have and didn’t fix the problem) over and over again, completely unedited each time. I assume they don’t have humans working for them just AI (or if it is humans responding they need extensive training and su
- [R29] game now unplayable: since the update, it is impossible to load the game, it crashes on the loading screen. support utterly useless and give troubleshooting tips that do nothing. do not seem concerned or to care that some have spent real money on the game
- [R18] Too fast!: I’ve been playing for years, the game has become too fast, and it’s no longer enjoyable!
- [R92] So good: One of the best games I’ve ever played! But the game could make a few changes like giving you more time to make the customers food and making multiple meals at once
- [R98] Too fast: It gets way to fast way to quickly it would be way more fun if it wasn’t so fast
- [R22] The pancake shop: Every time I pass the level specifically 26 and 28 it keeps loading every time and I have to refresh the game and it every time it says I have to play the game again and I don’t need to update it ive checked
- [R32] Good but has some problems: I’ve been playing this game for a really long time and find it quite addictive however sometimes when I play there are glitches where the games end without allowing me to serve the customers , not only that it has become harder to earn 3 stars during the game compared to before. Besides those issues I really recommend the game.
- [R3] Good game but has bug: Love the game but recently been lagging a lot. Needs an update
- [R9] Some restaurants impossible: Some restaurants are impossible to complete like the Indian diner the cost of upgrades is too much like 30 diamonds & even using boosters & selling desserts still can’t get 3 star
- [R23] DIAMOND HEIST!: I’ve asked before and I’m gonna ask again and again until we get more gems otherwise I will devise a boycott of your game in the gaming community. 7 GEMS FOR LEVELLING UP IS AN INSULT. A minimum of 25 would be welcomed. Plus change the day of the bumper box from day 30 to day 15 or 20 So we can get the gems we need in order to keep playing. Thank you. After all the world is on fire
Synthesized from 100 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store