Comparison

Maracaibo Digital vs Caverna

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

Head to head
About

Maracaibo Digital

Embark on a swashbuckling adventure across the Caribbean. Upgrade your ship, complete quests, and battle opponents. Strategize with hundreds of unique cards on a dynamic board that changes each round.

Highlights
  • Interactive tutorial
  • Solo play against Automa
  • Pass and play multiplayer
  • Campaign Mode with permanent changes
  • Includes 'La Armada' expansion cards
Features
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Play as an adventurer and sail around the Caribbean! Upgrade your ship, complete quests, and engage in combat. Every card you buy will unlock new abilities and bonuses to outwit your opponents. The board changes every round, and your strategy will have to keep up. Will you play slowly, buying as many cards as you can? Or will you race to the final space to catch your opponents by surprise? ABOUT THE GAME • Ranked in the Top 50 board games of all time • Easy to start playing, difficult to master • Strategize around hundreds of unique cards • Play on a board that changes every game FEATURES • Learn the game's rules with an interactive tutorial • Play solo against the Automa at 5 levels of difficulty • Pass and play for 2 to 4 players on the same device • Uncover the story of Maracaibo in Campaign Mode, where your decisions permanently change the board • Includes all cards from the "La Armada" mini-expansion! DOES NOT include Online Multiplayer features or AI opponents other than the Automa

About

Caverna

Lead a dwarf tribe to expand their cavern home and cultivate the surrounding forest. Dig deeper for resources, furnish rooms to grow your tribe, and forge weapons for adventures. Cultivate fields, breed animals, and increase your wealth to become the strongest tribe leader.

Highlights
  • Dwarf tribe management
  • Cavern expansion and furnishing
  • Resource cultivation and mining
  • Animal breeding and farming
  • Weapon forging and adventures
  • Worker action system
Features
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Caverna by Uwe Rosenberg makes you the head of a dwarf tribe, living in a small cavern. You cultivate the forest in front of your cavern and dig deeper into the mountain throughout the game. By furnishing rooms in your caverns you make space to grow your tribe and and create new goods from your resources. Deeper into the mountain you will find fountains as well as ore and gem mines. It's on you to decide how much ore and gems you want to mine, giving you the opportunity to forge weapons and go on adventures; a new way to do things in the game instead of using actions with your workers. Outside your cavern you can clear the forest, cultivate fields, fence pastures and grow crops or breed animals. All this in order to increase your wealth and become the strongest and best tribe leader of them all!

Screenshots

Maracaibo Digital4 screens
Caverna4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Caverna at 4.1 against Maracaibo Digital's 3.5. Caverna also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (61% vs 43%). Maracaibo Digital's advantage is price ($7.99 vs $11.99) and ratings volume (51 vs 12). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Maracaibo Digital costs $7.99 and Caverna $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Caverna holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 51 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Maracaibo Digital's written reviews are positive against 61% of Caverna's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Maracaibo Digital ships an update every 7 months, Caverna every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Maracaibo Digital versus Caverna: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaracaibo DigitalCaverna
Price$7.99 — better$11.99
Rating3.5 (51 ratings)4.1 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.0% of reviews61.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings51 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB450 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSpiralburst Studio, LLCDIGIDICED

Customer experience

Maracaibo Digital

All ratings51 ratings
Positive60.8%
Neutral3.9%
Negative35.3%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive43.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative50.6%

Caverna

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative38.9%

Bugs and requests

Maracaibo Digital

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App stuck in portrait/landscape orientation
  • Game freezes or locks up
  • Screen locked, half the game off-screen
  • Cannot scroll down to see the bottom of the board
  • Card drawing issues
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  • Camera at the top of the screen during tutorial
  • Game hangs after first automa move
  • Display bugs on iPhone 14 Pro Max
  • Cannot redraw cards after planning
  • Game doesn't scale to screen consistently
  • Cannot access buttons on the right side of the screen
  • App doesn't work on iPad (portrait/landscape issue)

Requested features

9 requests
  • Add computer AI opponents
  • Implement online multiplayer (real-time and asynchronous)
  • Add undo/restart turn functionality
  • Include a back button in the tutorial
  • Improve handling of larger system fonts
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  • Add content from expansions and promos
  • Turn log feature
  • Full screen on iPhones
  • Option to hide notch/status bar

Caverna

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Maracaibo Digital

No in-app purchases

None

Caverna

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Maracaibo Digital free?
Maracaibo Digital costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Caverna free?
Caverna costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Maracaibo Digital or Caverna?
Caverna is rated higher. Maracaibo Digital averages 3.5 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while Caverna averages 4.1 from 12 ratings.
Do Maracaibo Digital or Caverna have ads?
Neither Maracaibo Digital nor Caverna shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Maracaibo Digital or Caverna?
Maracaibo Digital ships an update every 7 months, and Caverna every 6 days. Most recently, Maracaibo Digital was updated on September 22, 2026 and Caverna on September 23, 2026.

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