Comparison

Cottage Garden vs Maglev Metro

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

Maglev Metro

Build and manage a futuristic metropolitan rail system using magnetic levitation technology. Transport workers and robots efficiently beneath the city, upgrading your system to ensure passengers arrive quickly. This tile-laying, engine-building game transforms the board into a vibrant subway map.

Highlights
  • Magnetic levitation rail system construction
  • Pick-up-and-deliver gameplay
  • Tile-laying mechanics
  • Engine-building elements
  • Passenger and robot transport
  • Route overlapping
  • Robot-based upgrades
Features
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In Maglev Metro, utilize state-of-the-art magnetic levitation technology to build a metropolitan rail system, transporting workers and robots beneath the city. Replace aging Manhattan and Berlin subway systems with newer, faster, quieter technology. Enhance your rail system's abilities so that your passengers arrive at their destinations first. Efficiency is your key to success in this pick-up-and-deliver, tile-laying, engine-building game. Transparent tiles allow your route to overlap your opponents' tracks, winding you along from station to station. Robots efficiently upgrade and adjust your abilities, leveraging unique goals to maximize points. By the end of the game, the game board has morphed into a modern subway map, with brightly-colored routes connecting stations all over the city.

Screenshots

Cottage Garden4 screens
Maglev Metro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Maglev Metro at 3.8 against Cottage Garden's 3.1. Cottage Garden's advantage is review sentiment (38% vs 13%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.4). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 Maglev Metro $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Maglev Metro holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 42 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Cottage Garden's written reviews are positive against 13% of Maglev Metro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cottage Garden ships an update every 2 months, Maglev Metro every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cottage Garden versus Maglev Metro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCottage GardenMaglev Metro
Price$4.99$4.99
Rating3.1 (25 ratings)3.8 (42 ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.2% of reviews — better12.5% of reviews
Number of ratings2542 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.4
Further details — not scored
Size180 MB324 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDIGIDICEDBezier Games, Inc.

Customer experience

Cottage Garden

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

Maglev Metro

All ratings42 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.9%
Negative21.4%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral31.3%
Negative56.3%

In-app purchases

None

Cottage Garden

No in-app purchases

None

Maglev Metro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cottage Garden free?
Cottage Garden costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Maglev Metro free?
Maglev Metro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cottage Garden or Maglev Metro?
Maglev Metro is rated higher. Cottage Garden averages 3.1 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Maglev Metro averages 3.8 from 42 ratings.
Do Cottage Garden or Maglev Metro have ads?
Neither Cottage Garden nor Maglev Metro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cottage Garden or Maglev Metro?
Cottage Garden ships an update every 2 months, and Maglev Metro every 5 weeks. Most recently, Cottage Garden was updated on October 29, 2026 and Maglev Metro on October 24, 2026.

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