Crashlands

Overview

Reviews

Fun combat, great writing, and a great look, but with pacing and progression tuned for a mobile experience, not the PC.

-- As reviewed by PCGamer

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 5 expert reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

2
Average:

2
Bad:

0

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Last revision on December 10, 2018

Reviewers Liked

Good music and sound effects, Great dialogue with well written humor, Smartly designed opensandbox
Simple to get into, engrossing gameplay, entertaining story, crossplatform play

Reviewers Didn't Like

Character movement is slow, Combat is simplistic and sometimes frustrating
You're either sold on the aesthetic or you aren't

Expert reviews and ratings

By Gaming Nexus on December 10, 2018 70

There's a running joke in the PC gaming subreddit: the four horsemen of the gaming apocalypse are the Steam content tags “Early Access, Survival, Open World, and Crafting.” Joking aside there is an awful lot of these kinds of games, many of dubious...

By nintendoworldreport.com on November 19, 2018 75

A space adventure with a sassy trash-talking companion and a disembodied head as the villain. No, this isn't another remake of Star Fox. From perhaps the company with the greatest name ever, Butterscotch Shenanigans, Crashlands is a crafting survival...

By GameInformer on February 10, 2016 75

That pick-up-and-play-anytime mentality extends to your choice of platform; a single save can transfer between mobile and PC platforms with ease, so it’s easy to pop in and gather some more materials whenever and wherever you are. Crashlands unfolds a structured progression and ongoing story in a branch of games that often feels too freeform for many players; that framework is what makes this the crafting game that could finally appeal to those who’ve never grasped the genre’s charms.

By PCGamer on January 25, 2016 73

Fun combat, great writing, and a great look, but with pacing and progression tuned for a mobile experience, not the PC.

By Hooked Gamers on January 21, 2016 89

Ambitious Crashlands takes the crafting and exploration genre popularised by the likes of Minecraft and Terraria and imbues it with its own unique personality and distinctive story mode. You play as Flux, an intergalactic delivery driver whose cargo...