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Play Overview
Crashlands (2016) is a world-building game where you fight monsters, craft resources, and build a base on an alien planet. As you explore, either on your own or with a friend, you encounter locals, complete quests and missions, and meet strange new enemies. It combines exacting combat with exploration, simulation, and a cartoon visual style to create a finely balanced challenge.
You play galactic trucker Flux Dabes, who crash-lands on the planet Woanope. As you strive to retrieve your parcels scattered across the planet's surface, you must fight the strange creatures you meet (or maybe just steal their eggs and tame their offspring as personal companions.
As you trek far and wide, you also discover the planet's sentient locals, who you can interact with, build relationships with, and complete quests for them in exchange for helpful rewards. By gathering resources, you then create a base and start a new life.
It's a mix of exploration, fighting, and base-building. Combat is fast-paced and precise, and you defeat enemies using a variety of weapons, including laser guns and flamethrowers. Although you can quickly find yourself overwhelmed, you can always run away from fights, and learning when to do this is essential.
You unlock new weapons by crafting them with the resources you gather from exploration, and you also use these same resources to create your base, creating new items to decorate it with and expanding it with new walls. Offspring you tame can join you as you explore and can also attack enemies, providing an incentive to risk exploring enemy lairs for their eggs.
The result is a game that combines classic role-playing elements like interacting with inhabitants and completing missions with challenging, skill-based combat and detailed and highly personal base-building and crafting. Experimenting with different weapons and tools to find what works best for you can often lead to unusual discoveries and a play style unique to you.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Crashlands 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 6 weeks ago.
You play galactic trucker Flux Dabes, who crash-lands on the planet Woanope. As you strive to retrieve your parcels scattered across the planet's surface, you must fight the strange creatures you meet (or maybe just steal their eggs and tame their offspring as personal companions.
As you trek far and wide, you also discover the planet's sentient locals, who you can interact with, build relationships with, and complete quests for them in exchange for helpful rewards. By gathering resources, you then create a base and start a new life.
It's a mix of exploration, fighting, and base-building. Combat is fast-paced and precise, and you defeat enemies using a variety of weapons, including laser guns and flamethrowers. Although you can quickly find yourself overwhelmed, you can always run away from fights, and learning when to do this is essential.
You unlock new weapons by crafting them with the resources you gather from exploration, and you also use these same resources to create your base, creating new items to decorate it with and expanding it with new walls. Offspring you tame can join you as you explore and can also attack enemies, providing an incentive to risk exploring enemy lairs for their eggs.
The result is a game that combines classic role-playing elements like interacting with inhabitants and completing missions with challenging, skill-based combat and detailed and highly personal base-building and crafting. Experimenting with different weapons and tools to find what works best for you can often lead to unusual discoveries and a play style unique to you.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Crashlands 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 6 weeks ago.
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Play Style
This is a Strategy and World Building game with Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Simulation elements. You can play with 1 to 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online. You can play co-operatively with one other player, helping each other to fight, craft and build.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Duration
Play Time: This game will take between 20 hours and 40 hours to complete. Due to the open-ended nature of the game, you can play for a wide variety of different times, but typically complete most things in about 30 hours.
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Rated for younger players in Australia. Rated Parental Guidance (PG) for Mild Violence.
Rated 9+ on the Apple App Store for Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor and Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence.
Skill Level
8+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Still, it's important for parents and guardians to consider the maturity required to process the game content. The combat, while somewhat challenging, is simple to understand, and the crafting and building elements appeal to younger children as much as older ones.
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Game Details
Release Date: 20/01/2016, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch, Xbox One, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1-2
Genres: Strategy, World Building (Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Simulation)
Accessibility: 21 features
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Developer: B Scotch Shenani (@BScotchShenani)
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