Caverna vs Spoons
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!
Spoons
Experience the challenges of chronic pain through a strategic game. Manage limited daily energy against a growing to-do list that resists completion. This free game uses spoon theory to simulate the daily struggles of managing chronic illness.
- Spoon theory simulation
- To-do list management
- Strategy-based gameplay
- Chronic illness experience
- Free to play
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Finally! A game that lets you experience life as someone with chronic pain trying to get through a to-do list. Spoons is a (free!) strategy game grounded (sorta) in spoon theory — Christine Miserandino’s metaphor for the limited daily energy of chronic illness. You manage a spoon budget against a to-do list that multiplies, mutates, and resists completion. It’s no fun… but neither is chronic pain.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Spoons at Free against Caverna's $11.99. Spoons also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1). Caverna's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On 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
Spoons is free to download; Caverna costs $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spoons 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, Spoons every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Caverna | Spoons |
|---|---|---|
| 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 — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 450 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | DIGIDICED | Neurotic Tornado, LLC |
Customer experience
Caverna
Spoons
In-app purchases
Caverna
No in-app purchases
Spoons
No in-app purchases
