Cottage Garden vs HexRoller
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
HexRoller
This digital board game challenges players to strategically place rolled numbers onto a hex grid. Aim to fill areas and achieve special targets like connections and straights. Enjoy solo or two-player modes with auto-selection features.
- Digital edition of a popular dice game
- Strategic hex grid number placement
- Fill areas and achieve targets
- Solo and two-player modes
- Auto-select dice and auto-complete turn
- Digital score pad and dice functionality
- Leaderboard and achievements
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HexRoller is the digital edition of the well-known dice game! In this fast and tricky roll-and-write game each player attempts to place the rolled numbers in their hex grid the best, to fill up areas and to reach special targets as connections and straights. • Official license • Easy start into the game • Game mode "Solo" for single players • Game mode "Duo" for two players on one device • Auto-Select Dice and Auto-Complete Turn • Using the app as a digital score pad or digital dice • Local leaderboard for solo mode • Supporting Game Center with leaderboard and achievements
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HexRoller at 83% against Cottage Garden's 38%. HexRoller also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.1). Cottage Garden's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months) and price ($0.99 vs $3.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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 $0.99 and HexRoller $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HexRoller holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Cottage Garden's written reviews are positive against 83% of HexRoller's.
Cottage Garden ships an update every 2 months, HexRoller every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cottage Garden | HexRoller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 3.1 (25 ratings) | 4.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.2% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #54 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIGIDICED | Outline Development |
Customer experience
Cottage Garden
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In-app purchases
Cottage Garden
No in-app purchases
HexRoller
No in-app purchases









