Comparison

Evergreen vs Caverna

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

Head to head
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.

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

Evergreen4 screens
Caverna4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Evergreen at 4.6 against Caverna's 4.1. Evergreen also leads on price ($4.99 vs $11.99) and chart position (#90 vs unranked). Caverna's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Evergreen costs $4.99 and Caverna $11.99 up front. Evergreen sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Caverna asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Evergreen holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 12 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 61% and 61% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Evergreen ships an update monthly, Caverna every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Evergreen versus Caverna: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEvergreenCaverna
Price$4.99 — better$11.99
Rating4.6 (26 ratings) — better4.1 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews61.1% of reviews61.1% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better12
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#90 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size184 MB450 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHorrible GuildDIGIDICED

Customer experience

Evergreen

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

Caverna

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Evergreen

One-time2
  • Pines Expansion$1.49
  • Cacti Expansion$1.49
None

Caverna

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Evergreen free?
Evergreen costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Caverna free?
Caverna costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Evergreen or Caverna?
Evergreen is rated higher. Evergreen averages 4.6 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Caverna averages 4.1 from 12 ratings.
Do Evergreen or Caverna have ads?
Neither Evergreen nor Caverna shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Evergreen or Caverna?
Evergreen ships an update monthly, and Caverna every 6 days. Most recently, Evergreen was updated on October 15, 2026 and Caverna on October 13, 2026.

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