Comparison

Junk Jack vs Crashlands

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

Head to head
About

Junk Jack

Explore, build, and survive in procedurally generated 2D worlds. This sandbox adventure offers creative building, combat, and exploration across multiple planets, with options for both single-player and multiplayer experiences.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated worlds
  • Multiplayer support
  • Creative mode
  • Extensive equipment system
  • Adventure mode across multiple planets
  • Electronics engine for complex creations
  • Farming system
Features
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Welcome to Junk Jack! It is a 2D sandbox where you can explore, build and survive in randomly generated procedural worlds, full of monsters, hidden treasures and beautiful landscapes, now even in multiplayer with friends! * Chosen by the AppStore as one of the #BestOf2013 crafting games in 9 countries! * We are glad to deliver you the best Junk Jack experience ever imagined! A sequel which brings the game to a whole new level with multiplayer, multiple planets, creative mode, liquids, plenty of equipment to customize your character and much more! Plus all the features you loved from Junk Jack Retro (and, we hope, less features you hated!) This is not a freemium game, buy it once and enjoy the full game experience! Features: - local multiplayer up to 4 players and online multiplayer up to 2 players - a creative mode to unleash your creativity and build everything you can imagine - a fully featured equip system with more than 400 different wearable items to enhance your adventures or just to make your friends envy! - polished pixel graphics, full retina support - combat Uber Mobs and obtain their loot by destroying rare world altars! - a fully fledged electronics engine allows the creation of complex widgets, even complete CPUs! - tenths of wonderful music tracks by Bright Primate - intuitive controls: swipe to move and tap to interact with everything - an adventure mode that will let you travel between 12 multiple planets with different and intriguing environments - liquids to enhance or impede your explorations: avoid dangerous lava or go for a swim in a surface lake! - infinite procedurally generated worlds to make every adventure always different - a dynamic day/night cycle that blends with wonderful skies in parallax - a vibrant coloured lighting engine that will make you enjoy every minute spent in Junk Jack worlds - character customization, you can play also as a female! - a rewarding exploration thanks to treasure chests full of cool things - tamable dogs, cats and many other animals that will follow you around - more than 1000 crafts to be built - more than 2000 treasures - more than 440 placeable items - more than 270 different creatures and monsters - explosives, shelves, signs, dyes and all the features you liked in Junk Jack Retro - a complete farming system with more than 70 plants, even many alien and exotic plants - an in game guide that will teach you how to play - two ways of crafting to accommodate even needs of casual users This is just the beginning, we already have many ideas for the next updates! For every issue just contact us on our forum at forum.pixbits.com

About

Crashlands

Embark on an outlandish, story-driven crafting RPG adventure. Explore a vast alien planet, craft over 500 items, and battle enemies with skill-based combat. Build bases, tame creatures, and uncover ancient secrets in a quest to deliver packages and overcome a nefarious plot.

Highlights
  • Expansive crafting system with over 500 items
  • Self-managing, infinite inventory
  • RPG-style character progression
  • Skill-based combat with craftable gadgets
  • Intuitive base building
  • Tameable creatures for combat sidekicks
  • Effortless cloud saving
Features
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"...a design masterpiece." 5/5 - TouchArcade 2016 Game of the Year - TouchArcade, Gamezebo Time's Top 10 Games / Top 50 Apps of 2016 Craft, battle, and quest your way through Crashlands, an outlandish, story-driven Crafting RPG overflowing with sass! Become Flux Dabes, a galactic trucker whose latest shipment gets derailed by a chin-strapped alien menace named Hewgodooko, leaving you stranded on an alien planet. As you hustle to retrieve your packages you’ll become enmeshed in a nefarious plot of world domination, which will require all of your wits and both of your glutes to overcome. Learn recipes from the local sentient life, make new friends, uncover ancient secrets and deadly bosses, tame everything and build yourself a home-away-from-home as you learn to thrive on planet Woanope. ▼▼ Key Features ▼▼ -● Expansive Crafting System ●- Unlock over 500 craftable items as you explore the world and learn its secrets! -● Self-managing, Infinite Inventory ●- In Crashlands, your inventory is infinite, manages itself, and retrieves your tools when you need them, so you can focus on adventuring, questing, and building. You'll never have to dig through your bag or return to your base to free up inventory space! -● RPG-Style Character Progression ●- Become more powerful through creating ever-more-amazing items! As you grow in power, you can venture to new regions of the world, meet strange characters, discover new stories, and encounter new and interesting enemies. -● Skill-Based Combat ●- Learn the attacks of the enemies you encounter, and use your skill, agility, and wits to defeat them! You can even augment your fighting prowess with the power of the dozens of gadgets you can craft. Set your enemies on fire, stun them, slow down time, and more! -● Intuitive Base Building ●- Building a base in Crashlands is so simple it feels like fingerpainting. You can create beautiful, sprawling bases in minutes! -● Tameable Creatures ●- Every creature in Crashlands can become a trusty combat sidekick. Find an egg, incubate it, and hatch your very own adorable or hideous bundle of joy. You can even craft special items to grow and empower them! -● Huge World... with Huge Problems ●- Four sentient races, three continents, an epic bid for the future of the planet, and you - trapped in the middle, trying to deliver your freakin' packages. Take your time to dive into the side stories of the characters you meet or just rush headlong into making that special delivery. With hundreds upon hundreds of quests, there's a lot to do and discover on planet Woanope! -● Effortless Cloud Saving ●- Just because your battery died or you accidentally dropped your device into a bottomless chasm, doesn't mean your save has to die with it. With Rumpus, you can easily store and retrieve your save from the cloud, and move it between your devices! -● Controller Support ●- Tired of rubbing your sweaty hands all over your beautiful touchscreen? No problem! We've got support for most mobile-compatible controllers, so you can rub your sweaty hands on some joysticks instead!

Screenshots

Junk Jack4 screens
Crashlands4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crashlands at none against Junk Jack's 11. Crashlands also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and chart position (#104 vs unranked). Junk Jack's advantage is price ($4.99 vs $6.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Junk Jack costs $4.99 and Crashlands $6.99 up front. Junk Jack sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Crashlands asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Crashlands holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 471 and 1.2K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Junk Jack's written reviews are positive against 87% of Crashlands's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Junk Jack ships an update every 3 months, Crashlands every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Junk Jack versus Crashlands: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJunk JackCrashlands
Price$4.99 — better$6.99
Rating4.4 (471 ratings)4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.0% of reviews87.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4711.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank—#104 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB115 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperPixbits SRLButterscotch Shenanigans, Inc.

Customer experience

Junk Jack

All ratings471 ratings
Positive82.8%
Neutral5.7%
Negative11.5%
Written reviews764 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral6.4%
Negative15.6%

Crashlands

All ratings1,159 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral1.6%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews785 reviews
Positive87.0%
Neutral5.4%
Negative7.6%

User reviews

Junk Jack

From 471 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Awesome game
  • 🚀 Great sandbox experience
  • 🚀 Tons of content
  • 🚀 Nostalgic
  • 🚀 Addictive gameplay

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and glitches
  • 🐛 Multiplayer issues
  • 🐛 Inventory/crafting bugs
  • 🔋 Performance issues on older devices
  • 🔒 Lack of cloud/cross-device save support

Crashlands

From 1.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great game
  • 🚀 Lots of content and gameplay
  • 💡 Funny and engaging story
  • 👍 Addictive and enjoyable
  • 👍 Excellent crafting and progression system

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and performance issues
  • 🐛 Glitchy audio
  • 🐛 Quests can be confusing
  • 🐛 Repetitive at times
  • 🐛 Difficulty spikes can be frustrating

Bugs and requests

Junk Jack

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when joining multiplayer
  • Inventory items disappearing
  • Crafting recipes not working
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • Multiplayer desync and desyncing

Requested features

5 requests
  • Controller support
  • More planets/biomes
  • NPC/civilization features
  • Expanded crafting/progression
  • Taming/breeding mechanics

Crashlands

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game crashes on map opening
  • Inventory management issues
  • Enemies regaining full health on respawn

Requested features

4 requests
  • Multiplayer mode
  • More character customization options
  • Ability to control pet companions
  • Clearer quest tracking and objectives

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Junk Jack

One-time11
  • Breeding Hat$0.99
  • Extended Day$0.99
  • Complete Craftbook$0.99
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  • Dark Ninja$0.99
  • Mining Helmet$0.99
  • Hatcher Hat$0.99
  • Santa Hat$0.99
  • Chemistry Book$0.99
  • Pocket Pug$0.99
  • Legendary Pole$0.99
  • Instant Planets$1.99
None

Crashlands

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Junk Jack free?
Junk Jack costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Crashlands free?
Crashlands costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Junk Jack or Crashlands?
Crashlands is rated higher. Junk Jack averages 4.4 out of 5 from 471 ratings, while Crashlands averages 4.8 from 1.2K ratings.
Do Junk Jack or Crashlands have ads?
Neither Junk Jack nor Crashlands shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Junk Jack or Crashlands?
Junk Jack ships an update every 3 months, and Crashlands every 2 months. Most recently, Junk Jack was updated on September 25, 2026 and Crashlands on September 25, 2026.

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