Junk Jack vs Crashlands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Procedurally generated worlds
- Multiplayer support
- Creative mode
- Extensive equipment system
- Adventure mode across multiple planets
- Electronics engine for complex creations
- Farming system
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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
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.
- 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
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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!
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Junk Jack ships an update every 3 months, Crashlands every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Junk Jack | Crashlands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (471 ratings) | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews | 87.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 471 | 1.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #104 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Pixbits SRL | Butterscotch Shenanigans, Inc. |
Customer experience
Junk Jack
Crashlands
User reviews
Junk Jack
From 471 App Store ratingsWhat 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 ratingsWhat 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
Junk Jack
- 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
Crashlands
No in-app purchases









