Comparison

Crashlands vs Exploration Lite

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

Head to head
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!

About

Exploration Lite

Create and explore an infinite 3D world by building structures, mining resources, and transforming the terrain. This app offers a sandbox experience for imaginative construction and exploration.

Highlights
  • Infinite 3D environment
  • Build bases, castles, kingdoms
  • Mine resources
  • Destroy and transform terrain
  • Save world progress
  • Block crafting
Features
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Build a base, mine, castle, kingdom, empire or whatever you imagine on the infinite 3D environment! Enjoy endless world building games! Everybody loves building games that popular all around the world. Exploration Lite Free is an editor which allows you to move, delete, build craft, destroy, jump, save, building blocks and transforming the terrain in the 3D environment. Explorer and builders, play for free now!

Screenshots

Crashlands4 screens
Exploration Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Exploration Lite at Free against Crashlands's $6.99. Exploration Lite also leads on ratings volume (23K vs 1.2K). Crashlands's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 19) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, monetization model 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

Exploration Lite is free to download; Crashlands costs $6.99 up front. Exploration Lite sells 19 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exploration Lite has 23K ratings behind it against 1.2K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Crashlands's written reviews are positive against 61% of Exploration Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crashlands ships an update every 2 months, Exploration Lite every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Crashlands versus Exploration Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrashlandsExploration Lite
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better4.5 (23K ratings)
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews — better61.2% of reviews
Number of ratings1.2K23K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#86 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB800 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperButterscotch Shenanigans, Inc.SolverLabs

Customer experience

Crashlands

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

Exploration Lite

All ratings23,153 ratings
Positive86.6%
Neutral5.1%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews1,002 reviews
Positive61.2%
Neutral9.1%
Negative29.7%

User reviews

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

Exploration Lite

From 23K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Good alternative for Minecraft
  • 👍 Blocky, fun, and creative
  • 👍 Awesome game
  • 👍 Great game
  • 👍 I love this game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Laggy and crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🐛 Disappearing builds and maps
  • 🔒 Lack of moderation and inappropriate content
  • 💰 Too many ads and in-app purchases

Bugs and requests

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

Exploration Lite

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Disconnection issues and inability to play in offline/single-player mode
  • Disappearing builds and maps
  • Glitches and bugs with block placement and interactions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add beds, furniture, animals, and more interactive elements
  • Implement different realms like Nether and End
  • Add more blocks, items, and crafting options
  • Improve save/load functionality for builds
  • Implement better chat filtering and moderation

In-app purchases

None

Crashlands

No in-app purchases

19 purchases

Exploration Lite

One-time19
  • Tiny Pack of Coins$0.99
  • Tiny Pack of Gems$0.99
  • Light Pack of Coins$1.99
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  • Small Pack of Coins$2.99
  • Big Pack of Coins$3.99
  • Medium Pack of Coins$3.99
  • Big Pack of Gems$3.99
  • Large Pack of Coins$4.99
  • Giant Pack of Coins$5.99
  • Huge Pack of Coins$6.99
  • Chest of Coins$7.99
  • Massive Pack of Coins$7.99
  • Bucket of Gems$7.99
  • Golden Chest of Coins$11.99
  • Bank of Coins$16.99
  • Chest of Gems$20.99
  • Treasury of Coins$41.99
  • Bank of Gems$41.99
  • Treasure of Gems$99.99

Questions

Is Crashlands free?
Crashlands costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Exploration Lite free?
Exploration Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Crashlands or Exploration Lite?
Crashlands is rated higher. Crashlands averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Exploration Lite averages 4.5 from 23K ratings.
Do Crashlands or Exploration Lite have ads?
Exploration Lite shows ads; Crashlands does not.
Which is updated more often, Crashlands or Exploration Lite?
Crashlands ships an update every 2 months, and Exploration Lite every 6 weeks. Most recently, Crashlands was updated on September 25, 2026 and Exploration Lite on September 27, 2026.

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