Cooking Craze vs Diner Dash
Cooking Craze
Cooking Craze is a very addictive and yet surprisingly easy-to-play time management game developed and published by Big Fish Games. Featuring a linear progression path resembling what you'd see in a standard match-3 games, Cooking Craze is so different from all the other similar cafe or restaurant-themed time management games mainly through its unique gameplay - it's very simple and well-suited for the mobile market. As opposed of having to drag and drop stuff on a small mobile screen, the game is designed so that you can simply tap once to prepare the foodstuff, another 1 or 2 times to add "toppings", and once more to serve the food to your customers. Coins that are left behind are then automatically collected.Not to mention, Cooking Craze also has a 3-tier per level system whereby each new tier represents a higher difficulty level. You are not forced to replay a level just to complete all 3 tiers, unless there's a golden comment card, which is needed to unlock new restaurants, attached to the second or third tier rather than the first, but you'll end up having more coins to spend on food and tool upgrades if you do.
Cooking Craze is indeed a very intriguing time management game (since it's likely the first of its kind) that's just perfect for casual gamers to put in a couple of minutes of play in between the gaps in their schedules and daily routines.
Diner Dash
Diner Dash is the mobile version of the addictive time management game series of the same name that features a brand-new cooking adventure where you'll help Flo fend off Mr Big's attempt to bankrupt all the local diners, take over them, and set up his very unhealthy, Eat-Mor fast food restaurants. With 150 levels to play, you'll need to strategically seat and serve your customers while maximizing the tips you earn and the efficiency and speed at which you prepare the dishes. Satisfy the taste buds of various customers ranging from the fussy VIPs to the belligerent dine-and-dash-ers, by catering to their needs while keeping a close eye on them.Diner Dash is a game that's a long time coming but the wait is very much worth it, especially because PlayFirst has released Cooking Dash first to tide the fans over. However, if you are to compare the game with other similar games, we'd say that Diner Dash is more suitable for the hardcore time management gamer as there are seriously a lot of stuff to do - more than Cooking Dash or Cooking Fever, and definitely so much more than in Cooking Craze.