Comparison

Cottage Garden vs Imperial Settlers Roll & Write

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

Imperial Settlers Roll & Write

Experience the digital adaptation of a popular board game focused on empire building. Construct buildings to gain bonuses, unlock new levels, and expand your settlement. Compete globally to build the most powerful empire.

Highlights
  • Digital board game adaptation
  • Empire building mechanics
  • Construct buildings for bonuses
  • Unlock new game levels
  • Global player rankings
  • Engine building focus
Features
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The digital version of popular board game – Imperial Settlers Roll & Write from Portal Games. The app contains settlements from Competition Set and 8 Adventure sets from classical board game. More will be added soon! Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write is the newest member of the Imperial Settlers board games Family. It is a standalone game set in the universe of popular Portal Games titles Imperial Settlers and Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North. The game is heavily focused on engine building! Constructing buildings will grant you a special bonuses and unlock new levels. With each passing turn the game will offer you more choices as your empire will gain momentum. In the digital version of our board game you start from one settlement. Get enough strength and conquer more and more with your settlers from different fractions to make your Empire grow stronger. Compare your achievements with other players in the global ranking. Can you create the most powerful empire on earth? Try Imperial Settlers Roll & Write and compare it to board game version.

Screenshots

Cottage Garden4 screens
Imperial Settlers Roll & Write4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Imperial Settlers Roll & Write at 3.9 against Cottage Garden's 3.1. Imperial Settlers Roll & Write also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (57% vs 38%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Imperial Settlers Roll & Write $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Imperial Settlers Roll & Write holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Cottage Garden's written reviews are positive against 57% of Imperial Settlers Roll & Write's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cottage Garden ships an update every 2 months, Imperial Settlers Roll & Write weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cottage Garden versus Imperial Settlers Roll & Write: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCottage GardenImperial Settlers Roll & Write
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating3.1 (25 ratings)3.9 (31 ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.2% of reviews56.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2531 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size180 MB339 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDIGIDICEDPortal Games

Customer experience

Cottage Garden

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

Imperial Settlers Roll & Write

All ratings31 ratings
Positive67.7%
Neutral19.4%
Negative12.9%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive56.7%
Neutral30.0%
Negative13.3%

In-app purchases

None

Cottage Garden

No in-app purchases

None

Imperial Settlers Roll & Write

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cottage Garden free?
Cottage Garden costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Imperial Settlers Roll & Write free?
Imperial Settlers Roll & Write costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cottage Garden or Imperial Settlers Roll & Write?
Imperial Settlers Roll & Write is rated higher. Cottage Garden averages 3.1 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Imperial Settlers Roll & Write averages 3.9 from 31 ratings.
Do Cottage Garden or Imperial Settlers Roll & Write have ads?
Neither Cottage Garden nor Imperial Settlers Roll & Write shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cottage Garden or Imperial Settlers Roll & Write?
Cottage Garden ships an update every 2 months, and Imperial Settlers Roll & Write weekly. Most recently, Cottage Garden was updated on October 21, 2026 and Imperial Settlers Roll & Write on October 19, 2026.

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