Roll for the Galaxy vs Viticulture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roll for the Galaxy
This digital adaptation of a popular board game lets you build a space empire by managing dice representing your populace. Direct your workers to develop technologies, settle worlds, and ship goods to create the most prosperous empire. Features a challenging neural network AI and multiplayer options.
- Dice-based space empire building
- 2-5 player network multiplayer
- Asynchronous and real-time multiplayer
- Advanced neural network AI
- Nine starting factions and worlds
- Sixty developments and settlements
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Following the launch of Race for the Galaxy, Temple Gates Games in association with Rio Grande Games brings the Roll for the Galaxy boardgame to digital life! Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game of building space empires for 2-5 players. Your dice represent your populace, whom you direct to develop new technologies, settle worlds, and ship goods. The player who best manages their workers and builds the most prosperous empire wins! This dice version of Race for the Galaxy takes players on a new journey through the Galaxy, but with the the feel of the original game. Designed by Wei-Hwa Huang and Tom Lehmann, this dice version of Race for the Galaxy takes players on a new journey through the Galaxy. Keldon Jones, the developer behind the Race for the Galaxy AI, is at it again with Roll for the Galaxy. This game will feature a new neural network AI that will challenge even the most advanced players. Features - 2 - 5 player with network multiplayer - Asynchronous and real-time multiplayer modes - Advanced neural network AI by Keldon Jones - Nine starting factions, nine starting worlds - Sixty developments and settlements[/list]
Viticulture
Manage a vineyard in pre-modern Tuscany, allocating workers and visitors to tasks across seasons. Expand your estate, plant vines, and fulfill wine orders to become the top winery owner. Enjoy single-player or multiplayer modes with global competition.
- Worker and visitor allocation
- Seasonal tasks
- Vineyard expansion
- Wine order fulfillment
- Single-player vs AI
- Online multiplayer
- Asynchronous gameplay
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You find yourself in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany, where you’ve inherited a meager vineyard. You own a few plots of land, an old crush pad, a tiny cellar, 3 workers…and the dream of owning the best winery in Italy. Your job is to allocate your workers and helpful visitors to complete various tasks throughout the year. Each season is different on a vineyard, so the workers have different tasks they can take care of in the summer and winter. There’s competition over those tasks, and often the first worker to arrive at each one has an advantage over the rest. Using those workers and visitors, you can expand your vineyard by building structures, planting vines, and filling wine orders as you work towards the goal of owning the most successful winery in Tuscany. Features: • 1 to 6 players • Family friendly – non violent theme • Cross Platform • Easy tutorial to learn the game from scratch. • Single-player mode with 3 challenging levels of computer opponents. • Multiplayer games against your friends in friendly games. • Face players from all over the world in ranked multiplayer games online! • Worlwide leaderboard • Take your time in asynchronous game mode with push notifications and never miss a turn. • Analyze your best games or learn tricks from the best with playback • Uses the newest rules of the board game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Roll for the Galaxy at 4.9 against Viticulture's 3.6. Roll for the Galaxy also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (81% vs 55%). Viticulture's advantage is chart position (#116 vs unranked) and price ($8.99 vs $9.99). On update cadence, ads 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
Roll for the Galaxy costs $9.99 and Viticulture $8.99 up front. Viticulture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Roll for the Galaxy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Roll for the Galaxy holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roll for the Galaxy has 507 ratings behind it against 94, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Roll for the Galaxy's written reviews are positive against 55% of Viticulture's.
Roll for the Galaxy ships an update every 10 days, Viticulture every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Roll for the Galaxy | Viticulture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $8.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (507 ratings) — better | 3.6 (94 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.5% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 507 — better | 94 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #116 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 322 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Temple Gates Games LLC | DIGIDICED |
Customer experience
Roll for the Galaxy
Viticulture
User reviews
Roll for the Galaxy
From 507 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Excellent UI/UX design and interface
- 🎮 Great strategic gameplay mechanics
- 🤖 Challenging AI difficulty levels
- ⚡ Fast game performance and load times
- 📚 Helpful tutorials and learning aids
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes in pass and play mode
- 🐛 Game crashes during winning moments
- 🐛 Online multiplayer stability issues
- 🐛 Game state reset and loss problems
- 🤖 AI cheats on hard difficulty
Viticulture
From 94 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Faithful recreation of beloved board game
- 🎮 Engaging gameplay with strategic depth
- 🎨 Good graphics and visual presentation
- 🎵 Nice background music
- 📱 Convenient portable play anywhere
Room to improve
- 🐢 AI turns extremely slow and tedious
- 🎮 Clunky and unintuitive user interface
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and game freezes
- ❌ Poor UI conventions and design patterns
- ⏱️ Excessive confirmation buttons required
Bugs and requests
Roll for the Galaxy
Reported bugs
10 issues- Pass and play mode crashes frequently
- Game crashes mid-turn with server lost messages
- Game state loss after crash resume attempts
- Resume function causes repeated crashes
- Links to developer games redirect to wrong app store
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- Replicant Robots card doesn't function properly
- Forced credit spending bug in recruitment phase
- Online multiplayer state reset issues
- Dice roll animation not appearing in pass and play
- Game unplayable after certain crashes
Requested features
11 requests- Ambition expansion pack implementation
- Promo pack and optional modules
- German language localization
- French language localization
- Japanese language localization
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- Shake cup dice rolling mechanic
- Game tile inspection outside gameplay
- Mixed AI and human player matches
- Improved pass and play logic
- Opponent score details visibility
- Better multiplayer experience
Viticulture
Reported bugs
20 issues- Game crashes on startup or during gameplay
- Unable to plant grapes despite having buildings
- Special workers cannot be selected at correct times
- Merchant worker action not functioning
- Game hangs when multiple human players with AI
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- AI gets stuck and requires force quit to progress
- Blank tableau display
- Missing windmill points for summer actions
- Visitor cards appearing back-to-back duplicates
- Motivator card not allowing all players to respond
- Summer volunteer crew card not functioning
- Build button greyed out despite sufficient coins
- Cannot purchase multiple workers in one season
- Game ends abruptly without warning
- Undo function causes game freeze
- Games not syncing across devices
- Main screen cannot find games that side menu shows
- Card selection prompts disappear too quickly
- Unclear when multi-action cards end turn
- Loading screen hangs indefinitely
Requested features
16 requests- Tuscany expansion (now available)
- Moors and Visitors expansion
- Auto-save functionality for crashes
- Improved notification system
- Configurable turn timers for casual play
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- Separate volume controls for music and effects
- Replay button for quick rematches
- Better game history and turn tracking
- Simultaneous action selection (not turn-based)
- Clearer worker placement location labels
- Guided tutorial for UI elements
- Pause functionality for async games
- Undo multiple moves (not just current decision)
- Dark mode option
- Better iPad optimization
- Improved app icon design
In-app purchases
Roll for the Galaxy
No in-app purchases
Viticulture
- Tuscany Essential Edition$8.99
Questions
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