Comparison

Roll Player vs Caverna

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

Head to head
About

Roll Player

Strategize by drafting dice to build a fantasy character's attributes, gear, and skills. Compete to create the most reputable hero and win the game. Features include multiplayer, AI opponents, and solo challenges.

Highlights
  • Dice drafting and manipulation
  • Character attribute building
  • Weapon and armor purchasing
  • Skill and trait acquisition
  • Cross-platform online multiplayer
  • AI opponents
  • Solo and local multiplayer modes
Features
Currently charting
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Roll Player is a digital adaptation of a dice manipulation, strategy board game where you will compete to create the greatest fantasy character in the role-playing world! Roll and draft dice to build up your character’s attributes! Purchase weapons and armor to outfit your hero! Gain skills and discover your hero’s traits to prepare them for their journey. Earn Reputation Stars by constructing the perfect character. The player with the greatest Reputation wins the game and will surely triumph over whatever nefarious plot lies ahead! At the beginning of the game, each player is assigned a random RPG class, alignment and a backstory. Through a series of puzzle-like dice manipulations, a player optimizes their character's attributes and attempts to maximize their alignment and backstory points. Earned gold is used to purchase various skills, traits, weapons and armor in the market phase of each turn. The game ends with a fully created character sheet of an RPG character and the player whose character has the most reputation points wins the game. The best character sheets are stored in the Hall of Heroes. FEATURES: - Cross-platform online multiplayer! - Private online games with friends - Synced progress across all your devices. Play online game on one device, continue on another! - Play against 5 levels of AI (or multiple AIs!) - Local multiplayer with friends on the same device - Challenge yourself in Solo mode - Keep a record of your best heroes, recent games and various stats - Interactive tutorial - Play and learn! LANGUAGE: English QUOTES: Zee Garcia (The Dice Tower): “The whole thing just comes together nicely! I think that’s a good, good app. It really works well.” Retromation (YouTube): “I think this game is fantastic! It’s such a good interpretation of a board game into a digital format. Just really, really, really enjoyable! Very nice!” AWARDS & HONORS: 2022 Golden Geek Best Board Game App Runner Up 2016 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee © 2026 Mipmap, under license from Thunderworks Games, LLC. Roll Player © 2016 Thunderworks Games, LLC.

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

Roll Player4 screens
Caverna4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Roll Player at 4.8 against Caverna's 4.1. Roll Player also leads on price ($4.99 vs $11.99) and review sentiment (90% vs 61%). Caverna's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and chart position 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

Roll Player costs $4.99 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

Roll Player holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roll Player has 278 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Roll Player's written reviews are positive against 61% of Caverna's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roll Player ships an update every 3 months, Caverna every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Roll Player versus Caverna: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoll PlayerCaverna
Price$4.99 — better$11.99
Rating4.8 (278 ratings) — better4.1 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews90.4% of reviews — better61.1% of reviews
Number of ratings278 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#91#66 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size138 MB450 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMipmapDIGIDICED

Customer experience

Roll Player

All ratings275 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive90.4%
Neutral1.4%
Negative8.2%

Caverna

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

Bugs and requests

Roll Player

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Asynchronous multiplayer games disappear and reappear randomly
  • Online private games crash causing all progress to be lost
  • Games disconnect mid-play with no recovery option
  • Online multiplayer services intermittently unavailable
  • Account functionality not working properly
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  • Special abilities sometimes hidden from UI (e.g., Bard class)
  • Colorblind mode not adequately supported

Requested features

13 requests
  • Monsters & Minions expansion pack
  • Fiends & Familiars expansion pack
  • Additional expansion content from physical game
  • Full character customization in solo play
  • High score/leaderboard tracking
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  • Portrait orientation support for one-handed play
  • French language translation
  • German language translation
  • Ability to view opponent actions during multiplayer
  • Online multiplayer functionality improvements
  • Mac compatibility (M1 MacBook support)
  • Text scaling options for accessibility
  • Stable asynchronous multiplayer games

Caverna

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Roll Player

No in-app purchases

None

Caverna

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roll Player free?
Roll Player costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Caverna free?
Caverna costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Roll Player or Caverna?
Roll Player is rated higher. Roll Player averages 4.8 out of 5 from 278 ratings, while Caverna averages 4.1 from 12 ratings.
Do Roll Player or Caverna have ads?
Neither Roll Player nor Caverna shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roll Player or Caverna?
Roll Player ships an update every 3 months, and Caverna every 6 days. Most recently, Roll Player was updated on November 3, 2026 and Caverna on November 4, 2026.
Which is more popular, Roll Player or Caverna?
Roll Player currently peaks at #91 in the App Store charts, and Caverna at #66. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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