Comparison

Viticulture vs Budou

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

Head to head
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.

About

Budou

Features
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Let's begin to grow grapes. Budou-chan, a grape girl and Grape-kun, a grape boy are great friends. They are going to grow grapes. This month, they are going to sow seed of grape tree to grow grape trees. Can they grow the trees safely? The beginning of Budou-chan trilogy.

Screenshots

Viticulture4 screens
Budou4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Budou at $0.99 against Viticulture's $8.99. Budou also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Viticulture's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 24 months) and chart position (#40 vs unranked). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Viticulture costs $8.99 and Budou $0.99 up front. Viticulture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Budou asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Viticulture ships an update every 3 weeks, Budou every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and March 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Viticulture versus Budou: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterViticultureBudou
Price$8.99$0.99 — better
Rating3.7 (93 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings93 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 24 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#40 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size322 MB101 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDIGIDICEDTetsuyoshi Morikawa

Bugs and requests

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

Budou

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Viticulture

One-time1
  • Tuscany Essential Edition$8.99
None

Budou

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Viticulture free?
Viticulture costs $8.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Budou free?
Budou costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Viticulture or Budou have ads?
Neither Viticulture nor Budou shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Viticulture or Budou?
Viticulture ships an update every 3 weeks, and Budou every 24 months. Most recently, Viticulture was updated on September 30, 2026 and Budou on March 4, 2026.

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