Viticulture vs Game Score Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Worker and visitor allocation
- Seasonal tasks
- Vineyard expansion
- Wine order fulfillment
- Single-player vs AI
- Online multiplayer
- Asynchronous gameplay
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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.
Game Score Buddy
This app digitizes scorekeeping for any game, from card and board games to dice and tile games. It offers real-time live scoring and multiplayer tournaments, allowing guests to join for free. Customize scoring rules and enjoy fun sounds and haptic feedback.
- Digital score tracking for various game types
- Real-time live scoring with room codes
- Multi-game tournament creation and leaderboards
- Guest access for free in live rooms and tournaments
- Configurable scoring rules for custom games
- Player management and contact integration
- Fun sound effects and haptic feedback
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Game Score Buddy: Your Ultimate Scorekeeper for Every Game Night! Say goodbye to crumpled score sheets, passing the phone around, and endless debates about who won! Game Score Buddy is the all-in-one digital score tracker designed to make your game nights smoother, fairer, and more connected. Whether you're a seasoned card shark, a board game enthusiast, or just love a casual dice roll, we've got your scoring covered. NEW: REAL-TIME LIVE SCORING & TOURNAMENTS! Take your game nights global with our massive new multiplayer update: Live Game Rooms: Everyone can now watch the action unfold in real time! Generate a quick 5-digit room code, and every point, bid, and round updates instantly across everyone's screens. Multi-Game Tournaments: Hosting a weekend trip or a game marathon? Create a tournament, share an invite link, and track the overall global leaderboard across as many different games as you want. Guests Join For Free: Only the host needs Premium! Friends can join your live rooms and tournaments, follow the scores, and even log points from their own iOS or Android devices completely for free. Effortless Scoring for Any Game Type: Our intuitive interface makes tracking scores a breeze. Simply select your game type, add your players, and let the app handle the rest. We support: Card Games: Dive into classics like Golf (track individual card values, special rules, and dealer rotation) or the strategic Oh Hell (manage increasing card counts, trick predictions, dealer constraints, and rotating trump suits with configurable scoring options!). Board Games (e.g., Scrabble): Use our specialized turn-based scoring system where you track points for each player's individual turn. Domino, Dice, & Tile Games: Utilize our flexible round-based scoring, perfect for any game where players score simultaneously each round. Generic Scoring Modes: Jump straight into a turn-based or round-based scoring session without selecting a specific game type — ideal for impromptu games or custom rules! Smart Features to Enhance Your Play: Player Management: Easily add players by typing their names or selecting them directly from your phone's contacts. You can even quickly add yourself using the "Me" button! Dynamic Tracking: Our app intelligently adapts to game rules, tracking dealers, trump suits, and cards dealt (for Oh Hell). Configurable Scoring: Customize scoring rules for games like Oh Hell and Rummikub to match your preferred house rules. Fun Sounds & Haptics: Enjoy delightful sound effects for game starts, score entries, and special moments like perfect predictions. Haptic feedback provides tactile confirmation for errors and key actions (fully controllable in your profile!). Personalized Profile: Set your own name and upload a custom profile picture. Unlock More with Premium! Upgrade to a Premium account to elevate your game tracking: Host Live Games & Tournaments: Be the game master. Generate live room codes and shareable tournament links to keep everyone's devices perfectly synced. Custom Game Creation: Build your own custom games with unique rules, scoring styles, and winning conditions. Usual Players: Save a group of the friends you frequently play with so you can add the entire roster to a new game with a single tap. Extended Statistics: Go beyond basic game counts and dive deep into your performance with detailed historical data, win/loss ratios, and player-specific stats. Download Game Score Buddy today and transform the way you score your favorite games!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Game Score Buddy at 100% against Viticulture's 55%. Game Score Buddy also leads on price (Free vs $8.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.7). Viticulture's advantage is ratings volume (95 vs 2) and chart position (#144 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Game Score Buddy is free to download; Viticulture costs $8.99 up front. Viticulture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Game Score Buddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Game Score Buddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Viticulture has 95 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Viticulture's written reviews are positive against 100% of Game Score Buddy's.
Viticulture ships an update every 3 weeks, Game Score Buddy every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Viticulture | Game Score Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (95 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 95 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #144 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 322 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIGIDICED | James Wood |
Customer experience
Viticulture
Game Score Buddy
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
Game Score Buddy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Viticulture
- Tuscany Essential Edition$8.99
Game Score Buddy
- Premium features$2.99
Questions
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