Hondo vs Caverna
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hondo
Guess back-to-back code words to score 100 points. Manage your energy meter, as each guess depletes it, but correct guesses restore it. Utilize special abilities like shuffling words or skipping to gain an advantage, but be mindful of their energy cost.
- Back-to-back word guessing
- Energy meter management
- Special abilities
- Word shuffling
- Skip word option
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Hondo is a Wordle-like word guessing game, where the goal is to guess back-to-back code words in an attempt to score a Hondo (100 points, that is). Watch your energy meter! Every guess drains energy, but correct guesses replenish it instead. Need help? Use special abilities to shuffle the words on the board, or skip the current code word to tilt the odds in your favor. But beware—these abilities also cost energy, so use them wisely!
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.
- Dwarf tribe management
- Cavern expansion and furnishing
- Resource cultivation and mining
- Animal breeding and farming
- Weapon forging and adventures
- Worker action system
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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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hondo at Free against Caverna's $11.99. Hondo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1). Caverna's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Hondo is free to download; Caverna costs $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hondo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Caverna has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hondo ships an update every 9 days, Caverna every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hondo | Caverna |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $11.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.1 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 61.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 450 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh Collinsworth | DIGIDICED |
Customer experience
Hondo
Caverna
In-app purchases
Hondo
No in-app purchases
Caverna
No in-app purchases
