Cottage Garden vs Welcome To Everdell
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
Welcome To Everdell
Build a charming make-believe city in this digital adaptation of a family-friendly board game. Engage in worker-placement and tableau-building mechanics to create the most spectacular settlement. Perfect for kids and families looking for an engaging strategy experience.
- Digital board game adaptation
- Worker-placement mechanics
- Tableau-building
- Family-friendly gameplay
- City building simulation
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Build your perfect make-believe city in the digital adaptation of the beloved family-friendly board game! Hear ye, hear ye! The parade is about to begin! I will give lots of shiny points to the critter with the best things that I like the most! Join Chip, Sweep, and the kids of Everdell to build the most spectacular make-believe city ever! Easy to Learn This easy-to-learn worker-placement and tableau-building board game gets the lil’ ones' brains a buzzin’. Climb across the rope bridge, watch out for the dragon’s den, and join us in the fort for the latest addition to the award-winning Everdell line – perfect for kids and families!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Welcome To Everdell at 4.9 against Cottage Garden's 3.1. Welcome To Everdell also leads on ratings volume (81 vs 25). Cottage Garden's advantage is review sentiment (38% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months). 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 $4.99 and Welcome To Everdell $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Welcome To Everdell holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 81 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Cottage Garden's written reviews are positive against 0% of Welcome To Everdell'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, Welcome To Everdell every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cottage Garden | Welcome To Everdell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 3.1 (25 ratings) | 4.9 (81 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 81 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 255 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIGIDICED | Dire Wolf Digital |
Customer experience
Cottage Garden
Welcome To Everdell
In-app purchases
Cottage Garden
No in-app purchases
Welcome To Everdell
No in-app purchases
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