Cottage Garden vs The Mind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
The Mind
A cooperative card game where players must play cards in ascending order without communication. Experience a unique team challenge, either with friends online or AI opponents.
- Cooperative gameplay
- No communication required
- Play with friends online
- Play with AI opponents
- Collect achievements
- Score top results
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The Mind is more than just a game. It's an experiment, a journey, totally simple and the the greatest team experience ever. If you complete the last level together , you will float on cloud seven. For you must not discuss it, will not exchange any information. And still it works - if you really want ONE you will. Only with the help of your thoughts... This unique experience can now also be enjoyed as an app! If you don't have any other players available, you can still experience The Mind by simply playing with one to three of the six individually designed computer players! Of course, you can also play online with your friends or make new friends playing the game online! Collect achievements and score top results for particularly successful mastering of the challenge. Nominated for Game of the Year 2018!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cottage Garden at 3.1 against The Mind's 2.5. Cottage Garden also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). The Mind's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On review sentiment, 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
Cottage Garden costs $4.99 and The Mind $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cottage Garden holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Cottage Garden's written reviews are positive against 32% of The Mind's.
Cottage Garden ships an update every 2 months, The Mind every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cottage Garden | The Mind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (25 ratings) — better | 2.5 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 38.2% of reviews — better | 32.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIGIDICED | BrettspielWelt |
Customer experience
Cottage Garden
The Mind
In-app purchases
Cottage Garden
No in-app purchases
The Mind
No in-app purchases









