Crashlands 2

Crashlands 2 (2025) is a world-building sequel to 2016's Crashlands where you build a base on an alien planet and become a part of the extragalactic community. As you explore and gather resources, you befriend locals, complete quests and missions, and fight strange new enemies. It expands upon the original game through new flora and fauna to collect, revised combat and expanded interactions with the locals, and an all-new, hand-crafted world.

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You once again play galactic trucker Flux Dabes on the alien planet of Woanope. As you trek far and wide, across the colourful, luminous alien landscape, you gather resources you can use to craft a house to live in. You also discover the planet's sentient locals; unlike the first game, where the main reason to interact with the locals was for new quests, here many of them just want to be your friend and offer handy tips.

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 (as well as slaps). Although you can quickly find yourself overwhelmed, you can always run away from fights. You unlock new items by crafting them with the resources you gather from exploration.

The result is a game that expands upon the original through a handcrafted, visually striking world, more varied and interesting interactions with locals, and a revised combat system. It makes for a quirky, humourous refinement of what made the first game so popular, keeping the core systems the same but expanding and improving them.

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Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Crashlands 2 9 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 9 weeks ago.