Cottage Garden vs Maglev Metro
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
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Cottage Garden | Maglev Metro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.1 (25 ratings) | 3.8 (42 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.2% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 42 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 324 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIGIDICED | Bezier Games, Inc. |
Customer experience
Cottage Garden
Maglev Metro
In-app purchases
Cottage Garden
No in-app purchases
Maglev Metro
No in-app purchases
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