Chef Survivor

Chef Survivor is free and has no in-app purchases of any kind — no packs, no premium currency, and no billing code in the app. The only ads are optional rewarded videos, each behind a button that says what it gives: a coin boost for a finished run, a second chance, a reroll, two cards from one hand, a short boost during a run, a doubled treasure chest, a boost before a run, a trial of a locked chef or kitchen, an order swapped or doubled, a calendar stamp doubled, the daily bonus, the lobby's tip jar tripled, a lobby supply crate, or the last coins an upgrade is short of. The game never starts an ad on its own, and skipping all of them costs you no content.

Yes. Every kitchen, chef, weapon, level and mode works with no internet connection. Signing in to Google Play Games is optional and only adds leaderboards and cloud save; your progress is also restored on a new phone by Android's own backup, with no account.

Yes. Version 2.0 is an update of the same Google Play app, not a new one: your coins, chefs, kitchens, upgrades, goals, cloud save and settings carry over as they were.

A Classic run is 30 minutes. Elites arrive carrying chests; minibosses come at 10:00 and 19:00 in the first six kitchens, at 10:00 and 23:00 in the next two, and at 8:00, 16:00 and 23:00 in the four hardest; a guaranteed supply crate lands at 20:01 and the kitchen's final boss arrives at 28:00. Quick Cook plays the same timeline three times faster, so the whole arc takes about 10 minutes. Endless loops the timeline until you fall, Boss Rush throws all 18 bosses at you back to back, and the Daily Special is a 10-minute seeded run. A level runs at Quick Cook's pace and ends the moment its goal is met, usually in three to seven minutes.

Each of the 36 base weapons has exactly one evolution, unlocked by exactly one catalyst passive. Level the weapon to its maximum (level 5) while holding its catalyst at any level: the next level-up deals a golden evolution card, and the next treasure chest you open hands it over first. Chef B.O.L.T. evolves weapons without a catalyst. The full pairing table is in the guide.

There are 16 chefs. Chef Antonio is available from the start; seven are bought with coins earned in runs (Sakura 500, Tex 900, Kenji 1,100, Morgana 1,400, Grandma Rosa 1,700, Pierre 2,000, B.O.L.T. 2,600); eight are earned by milestones — collect 1,000 ingredients, earn 5,000 coins in total, survive 3,000 damage, defeat 5,000 food monsters, defeat 10 bosses, win 3 runs, evolve 15 weapons, or take 10 spices. Details for each are in the guide.

Beating a kitchen's final boss unlocks the next kitchen for free; you can also skip ahead with coins (from 600 for the Haunted Supermarket to 44,000 for the Spice Bazaar). Endless and Boss Rush unlock after your first kitchen win. The levels are open from the start, one after another.

A 10-minute run generated from the date, so every player in the world gets the same kitchen, the same spawns and the same two modifiers — one twist that makes the day harder, one treat that makes it kinder — on the same UTC day. Runs are deterministic, so a better result is a better result; the Daily Special has its own leaderboard on Google Play Games.

Heat is a 0–10 difficulty dial set per kitchen. Each level adds 20% to enemy health and 12% to their damage, and pays back 15% more coins and 6% more XP. Winning a kitchen at one Heat level unlocks the next.

Thirty numbered levels, played in order from the main menu. Each one is a kitchen at Quick Cook's pace with a single goal — survive a set time, defeat a number of enemies, or take down a named boss — and sometimes rules of its own, such as faster enemies or a higher Heat. Clearing it earns a star, finishing with half your health a second, finishing with 80% a third; each star pays coins once, and each level opens the next. All thirty are listed in the guide.

Every kitchen after the first has a floor rule of its own: lava vents and grill flare-ups that erupt where they glow, cans, meatball meteors, fireworks or toast that land where a shadow appears, conveyor belts that carry you and the crowd, gusts of wind that push everything one way, and void rifts that drag the crowd in. The ones that strike are telegraphed and hurt the food far more than the chef, so luring the crowd into one is a tactic, not a risk.

The whole game — weapon names and enemy taunts included — is available in 11 languages: English, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese. It runs on Android 7.0 and newer, downloads at about 32 MB on a 64-bit phone, and holds 60 fps on modest hardware, adapting on its own if a device struggles, with a full graphics panel if you want to tune it yourself.

It is rated Everyone on Google Play: cartoon violence against sentient food, no blood, no chat and no user-generated content. Because it serves opt-in ads, it is not designed for or directed at children under 13. The privacy policy lists exactly what the app stores and sends.