Comparison

Crashlands vs Magic Turtle Adventure

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

Magic Turtle Adventure

Navigate serene ocean depths in a vertical-scrolling adventure. Master one-handed controls to steer, dash, and avoid hazards across five unique biomes. Collect treasures and face ancient guardians in this peaceful, ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • One-handed vertical scrolling
  • Five distinct biomes
  • Touch and hold steering
  • Dash ability
  • Collect starfish and pearls
  • Avoid ocean hazards
Features
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MAGIC TURTLE ADVENTURE is a calm, vertical-scrolling drifting game built for one-handed play. Five hand-tuned biomes carry you from the sunlit shallows, through a coral reef, down into a deep trench, past bioluminescent caves, and finally into the ancient ruins guarded by a sleeping stone god. Each depth has its own palette, its own pace, and its own dangers. • Touch and hold to steer, the turtle banks and turns toward your finger. • Double-tap to dash through tight spots, a short burst of speed with a cooldown. • Avoid sharks, jellyfish, and drifting rocks. Heal on kelp. Collect starfish and rare pearls for treasure. • Take damage and your screen flashes, a brief invulnerability window gives you a moment to recover. • Reach the surface to complete a level. Beat all five to face the Ancient Guardian. FEATURES • Five biomes with distinct palettes, ambient particles, and god-ray lighting. • Smooth touch steering with momentum and drift. • Procedural sound and ambient music, synthesized in real time. • Game Center leaderboard for total treasure collected. • Progress saved between sessions. No accounts required. • No ads. No in-app purchases. No tracking. A gentle game for short sessions or longer drifts. Built for iPhone, in portrait, with one-hand controls.

Screenshots

Crashlands4 screens
Magic Turtle Adventure4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Magic Turtle Adventure at Free against Crashlands's $6.99. Magic Turtle Adventure also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Crashlands's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 1) and chart position (#75 vs unranked). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Magic Turtle Adventure is free to download; Crashlands costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Magic Turtle Adventure holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crashlands has 1.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Crashlands versus Magic Turtle Adventure: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrashlandsMagic Turtle Adventure
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#75 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB50 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperButterscotch Shenanigans, Inc.SFOLN LLC

Customer experience

Crashlands

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

Magic Turtle Adventure

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Magic Turtle Adventure

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Crashlands

No in-app purchases

None

Magic Turtle Adventure

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crashlands free?
Crashlands costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magic Turtle Adventure free?
Magic Turtle Adventure is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Crashlands or Magic Turtle Adventure?
Magic Turtle Adventure is rated higher. Crashlands averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Magic Turtle Adventure averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Crashlands or Magic Turtle Adventure have ads?
Neither Crashlands nor Magic Turtle Adventure shows ads.

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