Morels vs Capital Lux 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Morels
This is a digital adaptation of a beloved card game where players forage for delicious mushrooms in a dappled forest. Compete against others or AI, cook your finds, and strategically collect varieties to win. Includes an expansion with new cards and gameplay elements.
- Digital adaptation of a strategy card game
- Online asynchronous 2-player games
- Local pass & play mode
- Solo play against AI
- Game modifiers for varied gameplay
- Interactive tutorial
- In-app rulebook
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*** Foray is now available! Foray expands Morels with 13 new types of cards including new items, characters, weather, and a more dynamic forest. Last fall, crackling fires wreathed the mountains. This spring, light-wielding thunderstorms roiled the valleys. Now, with summer come early and a glowing moon overhead, the soil is moist and black and delicious mushrooms are peeking up all over the forest. The Foray is on! *** The official digital adaptation of the beloved card game Morels. The woods are old-growth, dappled with sunlight. Delicious mushrooms beckon from every grove and hollow with many tasty varieties awaiting the savvy collector. Forage, sautée with butter over the fire, and cook your way to victory! Highlights: -Elegant digital conversion of the card game by Brent Povis -Online asynchronous 2 player games -Local pass & play -Solo play against 3 AI difficulty levels -Game modifiers: try a new way to play! -Interactive tutorial -In-app rulebook -Translated into: English, German, French, Italian and Spanish -No ads or microtransactions. Awards & Honors: 2014 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Two-players Nominee 2014 Games Magazine Best New Card Game Winner 2014 Fairplay À la carte Winner 2012 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee 2012 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee
Capital Lux 2
A strategic card game where players draft characters and decide whether to play them in their hometown for points or contribute them to the capital for special abilities. Balancing risk, bluffing, and planning is key to victory.
- Character card drafting
- Hometown vs. Capital placement
- Special ability benefits
- Risk and bluffing mechanics
- Multiple tactical challenges
- Beautiful art by Kwanchai Moriya
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Will you play citizens into your hometown for points, or contribute them to the capital and benefit from their special abilities? In Capital Lux, you always balance on a razor's edge, so will you take risks? Bluff? Or follow a carefully laid plan? The choice is yours in this clever card game, featuring beautiful art by American painter Kwanchai Moriya. Each round begins with the players drafting a hand of six character cards. On your turn, you must play a card either in front of you (your hometown) or in the middle of the table (the capital). When you play a card into the capital, you benefit from the card's special ability. At the end of a round, for each profession, you are not allowed to have a higher total value in your hometown than the current total value in the capital. If you break the limit for one of the professions, you lose all cards of that profession from your hometown. At the end of the third round, all characters remaining in a player's hometown are worth points. This means that for every card there's a dilemma of whether to add it to your hometown for possible points, or to the capital which not only gives you the benefit from a special ability, but also increases the potential points for all players. Since every player is dealt only five or six cards at the beginning of a round, every card play is crucial... Capital Lux 2: Introduces a range of exchangeable capital powers that can be mixed and matched as you like. This allows for a total of 256 unique power combinations. One of these combinations plays as the original Capital Lux, while the other 255 present the players new tactical challenges.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Morels at 4.9 against Capital Lux 2's 4.0. Morels also leads on ratings volume (491 vs 3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). Capital Lux 2's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and price ($1.99 vs $4.99). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Morels costs $4.99 and Capital Lux 2 $1.99 up front. Morels sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Capital Lux 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Morels holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Morels has 491 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Morels's written reviews are positive against 100% of Capital Lux 2's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Morels ships an update fortnightly, Capital Lux 2 every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Morels | Capital Lux 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (491 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 491 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #88 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MOSSBARK GAMES LLC | ycyclop games |
Customer experience
Morels
Capital Lux 2
Bugs and requests
Morels
Reported bugs
4 issues- Foray cards not functioning properly
- Destroying Angel card causing game to get stuck
- Shiitake log not always creating bonus
- Butter and cider extras not working together
Requested features
4 requests- Online synchronous 2-player mode
- In-game messaging for online play
- Faster end-game scoring
- More player accounts and leaderboards
Capital Lux 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Morels
- Foray$2.99
Capital Lux 2
No in-app purchases









