“I've been playing this game since almost the beginning and it was so much fun. Not anymore. The changes they have made to the game have ruined it. Like so many others, it's not about fun now, its about money. The rewards have completely…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 440 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★26,187 ratings
1M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Play Chef & Friends, a real cooking madness game! Transform chefs and renovate restaurants in the universe of the legendary Cooking Diary! Restore cafes and restaurants all over the world, become a head chef and leader of the restaurant restoration team!…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.49.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.49.0, updated 2026-10-01.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.7% of 440 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“should be call chef and crooks instead. this game used to be fun, had ads and was entertaining. they'd make an effort to make the game entertaining and have new ideas, but they got rid of the ads and they kind of force you to pay premium…”
“I have played this game for 3 good years and gave it 5⭐️ up to recently because the game has gradually turned into a cycle of frustrations and madness as it is not humanly possible to pass just ONE level without dying or using and wasting…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.49.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.