Caverna vs Xiandi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Xiandi
This app assists players of GMT Games' China's War by automating non-player actions and simplifying turn sequences. It manages card play and scoring, allowing for quicker game sessions and more frequent play.
- Automates non-player actions
- Player turn assistant
- Handles any player combination
- Manages card play and turn sequences
- Reduces playing time
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A player helper app for GMT Games' China's War Features • Automates running of the non-player sides • A player turn assistant - by only showing valid play options, the player can plan their move more easily • Handles any combination of players and non-players. Whether you're soloing one faction, playing four-handed solo or needing to supplement your gaming group of three, Xiandi has you covered. • Manages card play, turn sequences and scoring. • Dramatically reduced playing time means the game will hit the table more often.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Xiandi at Free against Caverna's $11.99. Xiandi also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1). Caverna's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On update cadence, 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
Xiandi is free to download; Caverna costs $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Xiandi holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Caverna has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Caverna ships an update every 6 days, Xiandi every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Caverna | Xiandi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $11.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 450 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | DIGIDICED | Prabha Pillay |
Customer experience
Caverna
Xiandi
In-app purchases
Caverna
No in-app purchases
Xiandi
No in-app purchases
