Comparison

Viticulture vs Last Defense!

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

Last Defense!

This companion app enhances a cooperative board game where players defend a city from monsters. It aids in game setup, manages timed rounds, and tracks defeated threats. Victory is achieved by eliminating all threats before the timer expires.

Highlights
  • Game setup assistance
  • Timed game rounds
  • Threat movement announcements
  • Threat removal tracking
  • Victory condition monitoring
Features
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This app is designed to be used with the Last Defense! board game. Last Defense! is an exciting, easy-to-learn cooperative board game that plays in 20 minutes EVERY time! You are an unlikely team of heroes who must save the city from monstrous threats! This app assists with game setup and announces which Threats are moving during the timed game. It also displays the time remaining and allows players to remove Threats from the game as they are defeated. You win if you can defeat all the Threats before time runs out!

Screenshots

Viticulture4 screens
Last Defense!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Last Defense! at Free against Viticulture's $8.99. Last Defense! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Viticulture's advantage is rating (3.7 vs 3.2) and review sentiment (55% vs 43%). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Last Defense! is free to download; Viticulture costs $8.99 up front. Viticulture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Last Defense! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Viticulture holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 95 and 60 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Viticulture's written reviews are positive against 43% of Last Defense!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Viticulture ships an update every 3 weeks, Last Defense! every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Viticulture versus Last Defense!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterViticultureLast Defense!
Price$8.99Free — better
Rating3.7 (95 ratings) — better3.2 (60 ratings)
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews — better42.5% of reviews
Number of ratings95 — better60
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#115 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better12.4
Further details — not scored
Size322 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDIGIDICEDGoliath BV

Customer experience

Viticulture

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

Last Defense!

All ratings60 ratings
Positive53.3%
Neutral5.0%
Negative41.7%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive42.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative50.0%

User reviews

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

Last Defense!

From 60 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and enjoyable game
  • 👍 Easy to play
  • 👍 Great for family game nights
  • 👍 Good app integration with board game
  • 👍 Entertaining for all ages

Room to improve

  • 🐛 No sound issues reported frequently
  • 🐛 Text overlap and jumbled text
  • 🐛 App not working for some users
  • 🐛 Lack of accessibility features (subtitles)
  • 🐛 Landscape mode not supported on iPad

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

Last Defense!

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • No sound/audio issues
  • Text overlap/jumbled text
  • Initial setup moves repeating
  • App not working past the second screen
  • Audio not playing on iPhone speaker (works with earbuds)

Requested features

5 requests
  • More challenging game modes (super expert, 5 monsters)
  • 5-second countdown tick for tension
  • Cinematic win/loss screens
  • Subtitles for hearing impaired
  • Landscape mode for iPad

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Viticulture

One-time1
  • Tuscany Essential Edition$8.99
None

Last Defense!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Viticulture free?
Viticulture costs $8.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Last Defense! free?
Last Defense! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Viticulture or Last Defense!?
Viticulture is rated higher. Viticulture averages 3.7 out of 5 from 95 ratings, while Last Defense! averages 3.2 from 60 ratings.
Do Viticulture or Last Defense! have ads?
Neither Viticulture nor Last Defense! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Viticulture or Last Defense!?
Viticulture ships an update every 3 weeks, and Last Defense! every 9 days. Most recently, Viticulture was updated on November 3, 2026 and Last Defense! on November 3, 2026.

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