Comparison

Stone Age vs Caverna

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

Head to head
About

Stone Age

Lead your tribe through prehistory by gathering resources, building structures, and advancing your civilization. Manage your workers and ensure they are fed to create the most advanced society.

Highlights
  • Resource gathering (wood, stone, gold)
  • Village and building construction
  • Worker placement mechanics
  • Tribe management and feeding
  • Multiple AI difficulty levels
  • Online multiplayer modes
  • Replayability
Features
Currently charting
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Forge your way through prehistory and build the foundation of human civilization. How bright is humanity's future? It depends on You! Lead your tribe through the Stone Age! What can you do in Stone Age: Digital Edition? In Stone Age, you take on the role of a prehistoric's human. Beginning with archaic tools, you collect wood, stone, and gold to attain higher levels of knowledge and build sturdier structures. With resources being scarce, you must compete for the limited number of spaces on the board that produce them while also gathering food to feed your growing tribe. How do you play Stone Age: Digital Edition? In Stone Age, the players live in this time, just as our ancestors did. They collect wood, break stones and wash their gold from the river. With a balance of luck and planning, the players expand their village to achieve new levels of civilization. The rules are simple! In Stone Age: Digital Edition the turn is divided into 3 steps: Place your workers! - Decide what you need and send out your people to get it! Collect your workers! - Build tools and buildings with the resources you gathered! Feed your workers - There's nothing better than a well-deserved meal after a day's work! How to win in Stone Age: Digital Edition? In Stone Age there are a limited number of spaces, so you must determine the best actions to take each round. It’s up to you to develop your tribe by gathering resources, constructing new buildings, and advancing their culture while also maintaining enough food to feed your people. Strike the right balance to create the most advanced civilization and lead your people to a better life! Finally! A digital version Stone Age deserves! Stone Age is praised and considered one of the classic board games! Since its tabletop release, it won or was nominated for 28 board games awards! What can you expect? - Immersive gameplay in the era of the Stone Age! - Worker placement mechanics - you are responsible for your own tribe! - Three levels of AI for solo play! - Near infinite replayability! - Great game to start your adventure with board games! - Online ranking system with divisions! - Synchronous and asynchronous online game modes! - Official Stone Age rules consulted with the designers of the board game! - Unique experience of a board game with the convenience of a digital platform! Purchase Stone Age today!

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

Stone Age4 screens
Caverna4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Caverna at 4.1 against Stone Age's 3.5. Caverna also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). Stone Age's advantage is price ($7.99 vs $11.99) and chart position (#153 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Stone Age costs $7.99 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

Caverna holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Stone Age's written reviews are positive against 61% of Caverna's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stone Age ships an update fortnightly, Caverna every 6 days. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Stone Age versus Caverna: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStone AgeCaverna
Price$7.99 — better$11.99
Rating3.5 (24 ratings)4.1 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.2% of reviews61.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings24 — better12
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#153 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size476 MB450 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAcram DigitalDIGIDICED

Customer experience

Stone Age

All ratings24 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive55.2%
Neutral17.2%
Negative27.6%

Caverna

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

In-app purchases

None

Stone Age

No in-app purchases

None

Caverna

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stone Age free?
Stone Age costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Caverna free?
Caverna costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stone Age or Caverna?
Caverna is rated higher. Stone Age averages 3.5 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Caverna averages 4.1 from 12 ratings.
Do Stone Age or Caverna have ads?
Neither Stone Age nor Caverna shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stone Age or Caverna?
Stone Age ships an update fortnightly, and Caverna every 6 days. Most recently, Stone Age was updated on September 23, 2026 and Caverna on September 23, 2026.

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