Comparison

Cottage Garden vs Welcome To Everdell

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

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.

Highlights
  • Digital board game adaptation
  • Worker-placement mechanics
  • Tableau-building
  • Family-friendly gameplay
  • City building simulation
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Cottage Garden4 screens
Welcome To Everdell4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cottage Garden versus Welcome To Everdell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCottage GardenWelcome To Everdell
Price$4.99 — better$7.99
Rating3.1 (25 ratings)4.9 (81 ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.2% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2581 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 15 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size180 MB255 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDIGIDICEDDire Wolf Digital

Customer experience

Cottage Garden

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

Welcome To Everdell

All ratings81 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cottage Garden

No in-app purchases

None

Welcome To Everdell

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cottage Garden free?
Cottage Garden costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Welcome To Everdell free?
Welcome To Everdell costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cottage Garden or Welcome To Everdell?
Welcome To Everdell is rated higher. Cottage Garden averages 3.1 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Welcome To Everdell averages 4.9 from 81 ratings.
Do Cottage Garden or Welcome To Everdell have ads?
Neither Cottage Garden nor Welcome To Everdell shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cottage Garden or Welcome To Everdell?
Cottage Garden ships an update every 2 months, and Welcome To Everdell every 15 months. Most recently, Cottage Garden was updated on September 28, 2026 and Welcome To Everdell on September 17, 2026.

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