Comparison

Abalone® vs Evergreen

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

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About

Abalone®

Experience a classic two-player board game on a hexagonal board. Push your opponent's marbles off while protecting your own. Offers strategic depth, online play, and over 200 puzzles.

Highlights
  • Classic hexagonal board gameplay
  • Push opponent's marbles off
  • Play against computer or online
  • Casual and ranked matches
  • Over 200 puzzles and brain-teasers
  • Customizable game settings
Features
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Enter the world of Abalone, the classic board game that's been enjoyed by millions of players worldwide.With intuitive gameplay, and endless strategic possibilities, Abalone offers an immersive and challenging gaming experience that will keep you coming back for more. Abalone is a two-player game that takes place on a hexagonal board, with each player controlling 14 marbles of their chosen color. The goal of the game is to push your opponent's marbles off the board while protecting your own. Players take turns making moves, which consist of either moving a single marble one space in any direction, or pushing a line of marbles in a straight line, as long as they have the numerical advantage. The first player to push six marbles off the board wins the game. While the rules of the game are simple and easy to learn, the strategic possibilities are endless. Players must use their analytical skills and strategic thinking to outmaneuver their opponents, create defensive lines, use angles to their advantage, harness momentum, and even sacrifice a marble when necessary. The game is accessible to players of all skill levels, yet offers endless depth and complexity for those who crave a true challenge. You have the option to play against the computer, online with friends or , or against other players from around the world. The game includes both casual and ranked matches, so players can choose the level of competition they want to face. With a simple and intuitive interface, players can easily customize their settings, select their preferred marbles, board, frame, and sumito to fit their style, and get into the game with ease. But that's not all! Abalone also includes over 200 puzzles and brain-teasers that will challenge you to think outside the box and improve your skills. These puzzles range from simple and straightforward to complex and challenging, and are sure to keep players engaged and entertained for hours on end. With easy-to-learn mechanics, challenging gameplay, and endless strategic possibilities, Abalone is a game that you won't want to put down. Download now and start your Abalone adventure!

About

Evergreen

Build a lush ecosystem by planting seeds and growing trees on your planet. Strategize to create the greenest and most fertile environment, competing solo or with others.

Highlights
  • Plant seeds and grow trees
  • Build a lush ecosystem
  • Solo and multiplayer modes
  • Cross-platform online leaderboard
  • Network planning gameplay
  • Over 20 achievements
  • Modular expansions
Features
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Evergreen is a tree-growing abstract strategy game where your goal is to build a lush ecosystem, planting seeds, growing trees, and placing other natural elements on your planet, trying to make it the greenest and most fertile of all. Play solo or compete against other players in multiplayer matches. HOW TO PLAY 1. Pick a Biome card from a common pool to determine the area of your Planet you’re going to develop each round. 2. Grow your Trees, plant Bushes, and place Lakes to create a huge Forest, and use the power of Nature to gain extra Actions! 3. Concentrate your Trees in the most Fertile areas and let them collect Light without overshadowing each other to score points! Each round you will choose a Biome card that allow you to develop on a specific biome of the board and activate its Power to grow even more trees. But even the cards you do NOT choose are just as important, since the least chosen biomes become more Fertile, and thus more valuable! Try to keep your Trees close to each other to score points for your biggest Forest… but you also want them to collect as much Light as possible without shading each other, so be mindful of the position of the sun! EXPANSIONS The Pines and Cacti expansions add new plants that that interact with light and shadow in interesting ways: discover new forest-planning strategies to get the most points out of them! Each modular expansion introduces a new Power. There must always be 6 Powers in the game, so if you want to play with a new Power, another must be removed. But you can play with more than 1 Expansion module at a time if you so desire. MODES Play solo against AI bots, or compete in local (pass and play) or online multiplayer to challenge players from all over the world! The online leaderboard is completely cross-platform!* FEATURES - The wonderful art of the board game by Wenyi Geng - Network planning gameplay: try to make the best use of the actions each round to create the most rich environment - Cross-platform multiplayer challenges with your friends and players all over the world!* - Over 20 Achievements Evergreen is the official adaptation of the critically acclaimed board game created by award-winning designer Hjalmar Hach and illustrated by artist Wenyi Geng. *Horrible Guild account is required to access online functionality.

Screenshots

Abalone®4 screens
Evergreen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Evergreen at 61% against Abalone®'s 17%. Evergreen also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (27 vs 2). Abalone®'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (daily vs monthly). On 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

Abalone® costs $3.99 and Evergreen $4.99 up front. Evergreen sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Abalone® asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Abalone® holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Evergreen has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Abalone®'s written reviews are positive against 61% of Evergreen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Abalone® ships an update daily, Evergreen monthly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Abalone® versus Evergreen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbalone®Evergreen
Price$3.99 — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.6 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews61.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings227 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#172 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size209 MB184 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlug In DigitalHorrible Guild

Customer experience

Abalone®

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative66.7%

Evergreen

All ratings26 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral15.4%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral27.8%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

None

Abalone®

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Evergreen

One-time2
  • Pines Expansion$1.49
  • Cacti Expansion$1.49

Questions

Is Abalone® free?
Abalone® costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Evergreen free?
Evergreen costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Abalone® or Evergreen?
Abalone® is rated higher. Abalone® averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Evergreen averages 4.6 from 27 ratings.
Do Abalone® or Evergreen have ads?
Abalone® shows ads; Evergreen does not.
Which is updated more often, Abalone® or Evergreen?
Abalone® ships an update daily, and Evergreen monthly. Most recently, Abalone® was updated on October 30, 2026 and Evergreen on October 30, 2026.

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