Tichu vs Bohnanza The Duel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tichu
A strategic partnership card game for four players where teams compete to be the first to empty their hands and score points. Features challenging AI opponents and online multiplayer for global play. Learn the game with a comprehensive tutorial and helpful hints.
- Partnership card game for four players
- Strategic gameplay with risk and scoring
- Challenging configurable AI opponents
- Online multiplayer with up to 4 players
- Cloud data backup and sync
- Extensive tutorial and in-game documentation
- Hint feature for learning
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*** Listed on Games Magazine's Electronic Games 100 for 2011! *** Legend has it that over 642 million Chinese play Tichu nearly every day! I don't know about that. All I know is that Tichu might very well be the world's best card game. Tichu is a partnership game for four players where partners battle to be the first to play all of their cards and score points. Each hand is filled with strategy and risk. Will you be the first player to play all of your cards? Perhaps you'd like to make a little wager on that? Are you willing to risk 100 points? How about 200? Tichu has long been the favorite card game of all time on BoardGameGeek. Find out why! I promise that you won't regret it! Tichu boasts the following great features: Fully licensed and authorized by designer Urs Hostettler and publisher Fata Morgana Spiele. Computer controlled opponents boast a challenging and lifelike Artificial Intelligence that is configurable in numerous ways. Up to 4 humans can play from any supported device in any part of the world. Data automatically backed up to the cloud and synced to any device that runs the game! Extensive tutorial and in-game documentation will teach you how to play and have you playing like a champ in no time. Hint feature helps you play while you learn. Choose from multiple beautiful deck styles.
Bohnanza The Duel
This digital card game lets two players plant and harvest beans to earn bean dollars. Strategically trade unwanted beans and complete bonus tasks to outscore your opponent. Compete against AI or players worldwide on the leaderboard.
- Digital port of the Bohnanza two-player card game
- Interactive tutorial for easy learning
- AI opponents with varying difficulty
- Online multiplayer duels
- Leaderboard rankings
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Overview For more than 20 years, game designing legend Uwe Rosenberg has given players of Bohnanza the opportunity to plant beans and harvest them in exchange for as many bean dollars as possible. In the two-player-version Bohnanza – The duel, the two bean farmers offer each other gifts of beans they don‘t want for themselves, ideally ones that their opponent can‘t make use of, either. Cleverly combining the types of beans on the fields allows them to fulfil bonus tasks. The player who manages to earn the most bean dollars wins the game. Face off against different AI opponents, or challenge hobby gardeners from all over the world! Find your place on the Bohnanza leaderboard! Features - True-to-the-original, digital port of the two-player-version of Uwe Rosenberg‘s popular game Bohnanza - The easy interactive tutorial makes for a quick entry to the game - Featuring AI opponents of various levels of difficulty - Play platform-independent duels against the best players in the world
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tichu at 70% against Bohnanza The Duel's 24%. Tichu also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.9) and chart position (#103 vs unranked). Bohnanza The Duel's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Tichu costs $4.99 and Bohnanza The Duel $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tichu holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tichu has 319 ratings behind it against 49, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Tichu's written reviews are positive against 24% of Bohnanza The Duel's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Tichu | Bohnanza The Duel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (319 ratings) — better | 2.9 (49 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.3% of reviews — better | 23.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 319 — better | 49 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #103 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | House Full of Games | DIGIDICED |
Customer experience
Tichu
Bohnanza The Duel
Bugs and requests
Tichu
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes on launch or during gameplay
- Inability to join or maintain multiplayer games
- Inconsistent behavior when calling Tichu
- Incorrect card interactions (e.g. overplaying)
- Persistent login and username issues
Requested features
5 requests- Multiplayer support (online and local)
- More statistics and performance tracking
- Ability to forfeit games
- Faster animations and gameplay
- Improved card visibility on smaller screens
Bohnanza The Duel
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tichu
No in-app purchases
Bohnanza The Duel
No in-app purchases
