Burgle Bros vs Cottage Garden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Burgle Bros
Assemble a crew and plan a daring heist in this strategic board game adaptation. Use unique character abilities and clever tools to outsmart guards and escape with the loot. Each playthrough offers a fresh, dynamic puzzle experience.
- Stealth and planning gameplay
- Unique character abilities
- Rogue-like dynamic puzzles
- 3D floor swapping mechanics
- Variety of cool tools
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Burgle Bros requires stealth, planning and a little bit of luck. In the tradition of classic heist movies like Ocean's 11 and The Italian Job, you assemble your crew, make a plan, and pull off the impossible. Push your luck or play it safe - your decisions impact everyone on your team. Choose from a cast of characters with unique powers. Be sneaky - Find clever solutions to get out of sticky situations. Rogue-like - each game is a unique dynamic puzzle. Swap floors and think in 3 dimensions to evade the guards Use cool tools like a Smokebomb, EMP - even Donuts!
Cottage Garden
Compete in the art of gardening by filling flowerbeds with diverse plants, flowerpots, and garden cloches. Score completed beds and earn points to become the ultimate gardener. Enjoy a family-friendly, strategic experience with various play modes.
- Digital board game conversion
- Local and online multiplayer
- Cross-platform play
- Family-friendly theme
- Ranked and casual play
- Real-time and asynchronous games
- Interactive tutorial
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COTTAGE GARDEN - a colorful sea of flowers, framed by walls, paths, and hedges. As ambitious gardeners, you face the challenge of filling the beds in every corner of your garden with plants, inspired by the limitations of space to create ever new compositions. You will use a variety of plants — as well as flowerpots and garden cloches — to design gardens that bloom with diversity. Be kind to the helpful cats! Goal of the Game - In Cottage Garden, you compete in the art of gardening. Plant two Flowerbeds with different flowers. Score each Flowerbed when there are no more free spaces visible on it, then exchange it for a new, unplanted one. You receive points for all visible Flower Pots and Garden Cloches on the completed Flowerbed, and you may also receive Flower Pots and Cats that will help you with your gardening. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. Features • True digital conversion of Uwe Rosenbergs famous board game • 2-4 players locally, online or even cross-platform • Family friendly - non violent theme • Worldwide ranked multiplayer and casual play with your friends • fast real time games or asynchronous games with 24 hour time limit per turn • Easy interactive tutorial to learn the game from scratch • Analyze your best games or learn tricks from the best with Playback • 3 different computer opponents • uses the newest rules of the board game
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Burgle Bros at 3.9 against Cottage Garden's 3.1. Burgle Bros also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 38%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Cottage Garden's advantage is chart position (#131 vs unranked). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Burgle Bros costs $4.99 and Cottage Garden $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Burgle Bros holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Burgle Bros's written reviews are positive against 38% of Cottage Garden's.
Burgle Bros ships an update every 2 weeks, Cottage Garden every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Burgle Bros | Cottage Garden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (31 ratings) — better | 3.1 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 38.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #131 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 196 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fowers Games Inc. | DIGIDICED |
Customer experience
Burgle Bros
Cottage Garden
Bugs and requests
Burgle Bros
Reported bugs
29 issues- Zoom level messed up on iPhone
- Bugs with undoing actions
- Bugs with moving the crow
- Strange guard movement (e.g., showing 6 but only moving 2)
- Issues when resuming games
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- Hacking lasers in an endless loop
- Game stops going, requires restart
- Gemstone says you can't move into occupied space but lets you
- Going from laser to fingerprint doesn't always cause alarm
- Losing cat, picking it up, then undoing results in two cats
- Guards on floor 4 of Tower of Babel cause problems
- Tower of Babel doesn't fit on iPad Pro 12.9 without scrolling
- Guards ignore event cards (e.g., destination cards)
- Event card moves guards on other floors even if not revealed
- Buttons and controls under the iPhone X notch
- Two raven icons on the board simultaneously
- Hack tokens not working
- Game locks up or skips player's turn
- Acrobat spends different number of actions to climb wall
- Tools sometimes don't work
- Occasional crash during gameplay on iPad mini
- Game not saving gameplay
- Crashes on iPad 2 during tutorial
- Graphic glitch on start screen
- Second die sometimes rolls un-earned
- Bug report tab drops to desktop on send
- Rook not getting movement bonus
- Hack tokens don't work
- Guard sees you two times on the same turn
Requested features
11 requests- Option to customize character pictures
- Unlock characters across devices
- Map selection on opening screen
- Mode with infinite stealth for practice
- Advanced mode with choice of classical/advanced skills
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- Full-screen entrance, arrest, helicopter pictures
- Fix UI issues on iPhone X notch
- Fix zoom level on iPhone
- Make text larger on iPhones
- In-app rulebook
- Option to save game progress automatically
Cottage Garden
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Burgle Bros
No in-app purchases
Cottage Garden
No in-app purchases
