Comparison

Evergarden vs Birth!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Evergarden

Lose yourself in a relaxing puzzle game set in a mysterious forest. Combine plants to create new forms, uncover secrets, and restore the forest with your creature guide. This game offers an endlessly satisfying puzzle experience with a narrative adventure.

Highlights
  • Plant merging puzzle mechanics
  • Mysterious forest exploration
  • Narrative adventure progression
  • Unlock new strategies with 'songs'
  • Daily procedural puzzles
  • Calming rhythm and atmosphere
Features
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“The game absolutely will feel familiar when you’re setting out, but as you progress through Evergarden you will experience something the likes of which I doubt you will have in your gaming life.” - Touch Arcade “Evergarden is a brilliant, relaxing, and utterly enthralling puzzle game that you should grab right now” - Pocket Gamer “Evergarden may look like a combination of puzzle games you’ve seen before, but it’s truly a game that’s more than the sum of its parts” - 148apps.com Lose yourself in an endlessly satisfying puzzle game set in the midst of a mysterious forest world. Transform your garden by combining plants into strange new forms, and unearth deeply hidden secrets as you become engrossed in the game’s calming rhythm. Wander into the forest and help bring it back to life with the help of Fen, your creature guide. Evergarden may feel familiar at first, but you will discover it is like no game you have played before. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: What type of game is this? A: Evergarden is an “evergreen” puzzle game merged with a narrative adventure. Q: What do you mean by “narrative adventure”? A: Beyond the garden puzzle board, there lies a mysterious forest environment to explore, with its own puzzles and progression. You’ll use the stones that you earn on the puzzle board to solve puzzles, and unlock new “songs” which add interesting new strategies to the puzzle board. Q: How long is the game? A: The core puzzle game is “evergreen”, which means you can play it repeatedly and keep mastering it forever. The narrative adventure portion will take most players 4-8 hours to explore, and there is a daily challenge with a new procedural puzzle to unlock every day.

About

Birth!

Build a unique creature by collecting bones and organs from various hand-drawn locations. Solve physics-based puzzles and interact with interesting characters to uncover secrets.

Highlights
  • Creature building
  • Bone and organ collection
  • Physics-based puzzles
  • Interactive creatures
  • Exploration of hand-drawn locations
  • Secret discovery
Features
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You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones. Collect bones & organs in hand-drawn museums, coffee shops, alleys, flower shops, libraries, markets, bakeries and more. Solve physics-based puzzles & interact with unique, interesting creatures. Find & spend hidden tokens to discover secrets.

Screenshots

Evergarden4 screens
Birth!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Birth! at 4.9 against Evergarden's 4.3. Birth! also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 64%). Evergarden's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Evergarden costs $4.99 and Birth! $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Birth! holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 76 and 92 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Evergarden's written reviews are positive against 92% of Birth!'s.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Evergarden versus Birth!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEvergardenBirth!
Price$4.99$4.99
Rating4.3 (76 ratings)4.9 (92 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.1% of reviews91.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7692 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB319 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFlippfly, LLCMadison Karrh

Customer experience

Evergarden

All ratings76 ratings
Positive78.9%
Neutral9.2%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive64.1%
Neutral21.9%
Negative14.1%

Birth!

All ratings87 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral3.4%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive91.9%
Neutral5.4%
Negative2.7%

Bugs and requests

Evergarden

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Game glitches with special tokens
  • Back button disappears
  • Game doesn't recognize completed patterns
  • Game crashes or freezes
  • App shuts off phone screen randomly
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  • Cannot progress after tutorial/first level
  • Issue with loading new game boards
  • Forced quit when making certain moves

Requested features

8 requests
  • More levels or content
  • Hint system or tutorial
  • Undo button for moves
  • Fix for impossible challenges
  • Improved visual clarity for colorblind users
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  • Option to save and return to games
  • Optimization for battery usage
  • Fix for game board not changing shape

Birth!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Evergarden

No in-app purchases

None

Birth!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Evergarden free?
Evergarden costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Birth! free?
Birth! costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Evergarden or Birth!?
Birth! is rated higher. Evergarden averages 4.3 out of 5 from 76 ratings, while Birth! averages 4.9 from 92 ratings.
Do Evergarden or Birth! have ads?
Neither Evergarden nor Birth! shows ads.

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