Light Speed vs Caverna
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Light Speed
This companion app enhances a physical board game by visualizing and resolving battles through photos. It requires the physical game and an internet connection to function.
- Battle visualization
- Battle resolution
- Photo analysis
- Companion app functionality
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Snap a picture of your Light Speed: Arena game and let the app visualize and resolve the battle for you! Note that this is a companion app for a physical board game: You need a copy of Light Speed: Arena to use it for its main purpose. An internet connection is required.
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: Light Speed at Free against Caverna's $11.99. Light Speed also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (100% vs 61%). Caverna's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On ratings volume, 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
Light Speed is free to download; Caverna costs $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Light Speed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Light Speed's written reviews are positive against 61% of Caverna's.
Light Speed ships an update every 3 weeks, Caverna every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Light Speed | Caverna |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $11.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | 4.1 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 61.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | 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 | 217 MB | 450 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TABLESCOPE GmbH | DIGIDICED |
Customer experience
Light Speed
Caverna
In-app purchases
Light Speed
No in-app purchases
Caverna
No in-app purchases
