Comparison

Cottage Garden vs Morels

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Morels

This is a digital adaptation of a beloved card game where players forage for delicious mushrooms in a dappled forest. Compete against others or AI, cook your finds, and strategically collect varieties to win. Includes an expansion with new cards and gameplay elements.

Highlights
  • Digital adaptation of a strategy card game
  • Online asynchronous 2-player games
  • Local pass & play mode
  • Solo play against AI
  • Game modifiers for varied gameplay
  • Interactive tutorial
  • In-app rulebook
Features
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*** Foray is now available! Foray expands Morels with 13 new types of cards including new items, characters, weather, and a more dynamic forest. Last fall, crackling fires wreathed the mountains. This spring, light-wielding thunderstorms roiled the valleys. Now, with summer come early and a glowing moon overhead, the soil is moist and black and delicious mushrooms are peeking up all over the forest. The Foray is on! *** The official digital adaptation of the beloved card game Morels. The woods are old-growth, dappled with sunlight. Delicious mushrooms beckon from every grove and hollow with many tasty varieties awaiting the savvy collector. Forage, sautée with butter over the fire, and cook your way to victory! Highlights: -Elegant digital conversion of the card game by Brent Povis -Online asynchronous 2 player games -Local pass & play -Solo play against 3 AI difficulty levels -Game modifiers: try a new way to play! -Interactive tutorial -In-app rulebook -Translated into: English, German, French, Italian and Spanish -No ads or microtransactions. Awards & Honors: 2014 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Two-players Nominee 2014 Games Magazine Best New Card Game Winner 2014 Fairplay À la carte Winner 2012 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee 2012 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee

Screenshots

Cottage Garden4 screens
Morels3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Morels at 90% against Cottage Garden's 38%. Morels also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.1) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Cottage Garden's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Cottage Garden costs $4.99 and Morels $4.99 up front. Morels sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cottage Garden asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Morels holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Morels has 485 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Cottage Garden's written reviews are positive against 90% of Morels's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cottage Garden ships an update every 2 months, Morels fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Cottage Garden versus Morels: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCottage GardenMorels
Price$4.99$4.99
Rating3.1 (25 ratings)4.9 (485 ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.2% of reviews89.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25485 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size180 MB128 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDIGIDICEDMOSSBARK GAMES LLC

Customer experience

Cottage Garden

All ratings25 ratings
Positive44.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive38.2%
Neutral23.5%
Negative38.2%

Morels

All ratings485 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.6%
Negative0.6%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive89.7%
Neutral5.9%
Negative4.4%

Bugs and requests

Cottage Garden

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Morels

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Foray cards not functioning properly
  • Destroying Angel card causing game to get stuck
  • Shiitake log not always creating bonus
  • Butter and cider extras not working together

Requested features

4 requests
  • Online synchronous 2-player mode
  • In-game messaging for online play
  • Faster end-game scoring
  • More player accounts and leaderboards

In-app purchases

None

Cottage Garden

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Morels

One-time1
  • Foray$2.99

Questions

Is Cottage Garden free?
Cottage Garden costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Morels free?
Morels costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cottage Garden or Morels?
Morels is rated higher. Cottage Garden averages 3.1 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Morels averages 4.9 from 485 ratings.
Do Cottage Garden or Morels have ads?
Neither Cottage Garden nor Morels shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cottage Garden or Morels?
Cottage Garden ships an update every 2 months, and Morels fortnightly. Most recently, Cottage Garden was updated on October 13, 2026 and Morels on October 12, 2026.

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