Comparison

Charterstone vs Viticulture

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

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About

Charterstone

This is a digital adaptation of a campaign strategy board game where players build the new Eternal City. It features a series of interconnected games, each with unique rules and objectives. Your decisions influence the campaign's progression and outcome, with no negative player interactions.

Highlights
  • Campaign strategy game
  • Build the Eternal City
  • Discover new buildings and mechanics
  • Manage workers and resources
  • Online and local multiplayer
  • AI opponents
  • Full 12-game campaign
Features
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The official digital adaptation of Jamey Stegmaier’s board game - Charterstone! It’s a campaign strategy game with high replayability, where players build the new Eternal City! Build and discover in Charterstone! Just take a look at the honors the board game received: 2018 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming Nominee 2017 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee 2017 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Nominee The campaign is divided into a series of separate games. Each game will have its own unique rule and bonus objective. Each game will build upon the previous one and add something new! Your decisions and play style will affect the progress and the end of the campaign. What’s more, there are no negative interactions between players. In other words, you score points on the back of your own strategy, not by undermining your opponents. It’s especially important when playing against your friends or family in online or hot-seats multiplayer! So what is the game about? Can you convince the forever king to declare your village the new Eternal City? • Pick one of the 6 unique characters to lead your charter • Discover new buildings, scoring possibilities and game mechanics • Strategize and manage your workers, buildings and resources • Watch the ruleset, and the village, expand from game to game • Build upon your progress from previous games • Uncover the story as you progress through the campaign What can you expect? • Official Charterstone rules, consulted with Jamey Stegmaier himself • Play with AI, friends or both - great experience for both solo and group play • Online cross-platform multiplayer • Hot-seats style local multiplayer • AI opponents - Easy, Medium or Hard • Full 12 games Campaign • Single Game mode - a flexible and adjustable mode for a quick match! • Save your map at any time and play it later with your friends • Pre-set and randomly generated maps • Awesomely animated board game map, buildings, cards, characters and more! • Full replayability - no two campaigns will be the same • Beautiful art by Mr. Cuddington and Gong Studios • Unique experience of a board game with the convenience of a digital platform • No negative interactions between players - no backstabbing! WARNING: Charterstone: Digital Edition needs at least 2GB of RAM to work properly. Some older devices like iPad Air, iPad Mini and Mini 2, iPad 4 or iPad 6 only have 1GB of RAM. Get it now!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Worker and visitor allocation
  • Seasonal tasks
  • Vineyard expansion
  • Wine order fulfillment
  • Single-player vs AI
  • Online multiplayer
  • Asynchronous gameplay
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Charterstone4 screens
Viticulture4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Charterstone at none against Viticulture's 1. Viticulture's advantage is review sentiment (55% vs 35%) and ratings volume (95 vs 14). On rating, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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

Charterstone costs $9.99 and Viticulture $8.99 up front. Viticulture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Charterstone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.6 for Charterstone against 3.7 for Viticulture. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Viticulture has 95 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 35% of Charterstone's written reviews are positive against 55% of Viticulture's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Charterstone versus Viticulture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCharterstoneViticulture
Price$9.99$8.99 — better
Rating3.6 (14 ratings)3.7 (95 ratings) — better
Positive reviews35.4% of reviews54.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1495 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size329 MB322 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAcram DigitalDIGIDICED

Customer experience

Charterstone

All ratings14 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews130 reviews
Positive35.4%
Neutral15.4%
Negative49.2%

Viticulture

All ratings93 ratings
Positive60.2%
Neutral15.1%
Negative24.7%
Written reviews132 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral22.0%
Negative23.5%

User reviews

Charterstone

From 14 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Beautiful graphics and animations
  • 🎮 Faithful digital adaptation of board game
  • 🎵 Great music and sound design
  • 🤖 Competent AI opponents
  • 📱 Smooth UI and intuitive interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
  • 📖 Poor tutorial for new players
  • 🔤 Text too small on mobile devices
  • ⚠️ Game-breaking bugs in campaign mode
  • 🔌 Compatibility issues with older devices

Viticulture

From 95 App Store ratings

What 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

Charterstone

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Game crashes when entering online lobby
  • Loading screen stuck at 0% or 1%
  • Freezes on opponent's turn during campaign
  • Game 6 and Game 9 specific crash issues
  • Incorrect turn assignment in multiplayer
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  • Potion Master card awards incorrect VP
  • Minion selection shows all players' minions instead of own
  • Influence calculation picks wrong winner
  • Robot placement objective scoring broken
  • Charterstone roll mechanic not working correctly
  • Game stuck in loop selecting companion
  • Campaign advancement pile selection error
  • Meeple drag action causes freeze
  • App crashes after naming village
  • Online sync issues between platforms

Requested features

8 requests
  • Font size adjustment slider
  • Pinch zoom functionality
  • Ability to create custom maps for single games
  • Skip forced confirmation actions
  • Better building information visibility
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  • Notification settings in-game
  • Backup save functionality
  • Ability to see available buildings at a glance

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

None

Charterstone

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Viticulture

One-time1
  • Tuscany Essential Edition$8.99

Questions

Is Charterstone free?
Charterstone costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Viticulture free?
Viticulture costs $8.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Charterstone or Viticulture?
Viticulture is rated higher. Charterstone averages 3.6 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Viticulture averages 3.7 from 95 ratings.
Do Charterstone or Viticulture have ads?
Neither Charterstone nor Viticulture shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Charterstone or Viticulture?
Charterstone ships an update every 3 weeks, and Viticulture every 3 weeks. Most recently, Charterstone was updated on November 2, 2026 and Viticulture on November 3, 2026.

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