“I enjoy the game and it's fun. However there are too many ads, not enough rewards, and I recently had over 200,000 in in-game cash and it was reduced to 25,000. I thought major received a big reward for hitting a major milestone but the…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 679 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
We Are Cooking: Taste of Life
MatryoshkaDive into the Cooking game that combines the charm of cafe, food, and restaur…
4.7 ★39,324 ratings
5M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Dive into the Cooking game that combines the charm of cafe, food, and restaurant games. Start your cooking adventure as an aspiring chef keen to master the casual and engaging kitchen time management. This cooking game allows you to hone your skills in a variety of food games, including chopping and frying across different restaurants.
As you progress, experience the thrill of time management by efficiently managing multiple food tasks to ensure that all dishes are prepared and served promptly, keeping your customers happy. Explore an extensive range of food games where you can try out various recipes and ingredients, from crafting simple cafe snacks to complex dinner meals.
Venture deeper into the casual gameplay by running the day-to-day operations of your restaurant. Manage food delivery, ingredient stocking, and restaurant upgrades to attract more customers.…
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 0.16.2.12 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 0.17.0.102, updated 2026-09-28.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 0.16.2.12, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 0.17.0.102 · 2026-09-28
No release notes were provided for this version.
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
2 themes 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.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 42 distinct reviewers — 6.2% of the 679 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).
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: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 679 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“The game itself is super fun and challenging, but there are WAYYYY too many ads. and they aren't just short ads. It's a bit much sooo uninstalling”
“fun but boring of many ads.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 0.17.0.102.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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