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Junk Jack Retro – Adventure Game Review
Junk Jack Retro is a Adventure/Education/Simulation game from Pixbits SRL, first launched in 7th November 2011.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 146+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Junk Jack Retro Stand Out
If you don't have Junk Jack we suggest you to first purchase it and then consider Junk Jack Retro to enjoy where all started!
Junk Jack is now called Junk Jack Retro, with widescreen support!
Junk Jack Retro is the prequel of Junk Jack, a 2D sandbox game where you can explore, build your home and survive in random procedurally generated worlds full of monsters, treasures and hidden secrets!
What the press says:
"A Wonderful Free-Roam Game with an Irresistible Pixel Aesthetic"
-Iphonealley.com, 4.5/5
"It has charm in spades. While it isn't the first 2D sandbox building game out there, it is a particularly attractive one, sporting crisp pixel art and gorgeous lighting effects. "
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-Toucharcade, 4/5
"Junk Jack is a hands-down, no questions asked must-own for any and all iOS users who love sandbox crafting games."
-148apps, 4.5/5
"Junk Jack isn't Minecraft, nor does it feel like it needs to be as its 2D world provides the same level of novel exploration fun while presenting challenges of its own to overcome; a tightly balanced free form experience that's only going to get better with time."
-Appspy, 5/5
Join our forum (http://forum.pixbits.com) and help us to improve our game, and share your creations!
Features:
- retro style pixel art!
- beautiful sound tracks from Bright Primate
- intuitive controls: swipe to move and tap to interact with everything!
- dynamic day/night cycle
- never get lost with customizable signs
- advanced farming system with more than 30 different plant types
- 135+ recipes for cookable foods!
- tint cloth blocks with 15 color dyes
- underground biomes with unique graphic style and monsters.
- placeable and throwable explosives that can destroy buildings, landscapes and monsters!
- critters and enemies to fight (more than 60 different mobs!)
- a fully featured lighting system together with many different sources of light and global lighting
- 3 slots for infinite worlds that you can generate and explore, every world is different from any other!
- procedural generation which creates beautiful worlds with plants, caves, different biomes all around the world
- a double layered world which allows to customize background and foreground of your creations
- many ores and shiny gems to help your adventure
- many hidden containers full of treasures
- more than 1000 treasures!
- more than 600 crafts!
- more than 380 block types
- many elements to decorate your houses (like sofas, tables, wardrobes, paintings, statues and many others)
- an in-game discoverable book to teach you how to play and the recipes available
- shelfs to place items around just to make your buildings shine
- minimap (with a really zoomed out feature to allow you to share your creations)
- runs fine on older gen hardware
We would like to thank Notch! He developed our bigger indie brother Minecraft, without which this game would not exist.
If you need help, please contact us!
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Junk Jack Retro is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th November 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Junk Jack is now called Junk Jack Retro, paying homage to the game who started our adventure.
The game has been updated to new Apple standards, and supports widescreen on all devices.
Check also out Junk Jack (Formerly known as Junk Jack X). A vast new adventure awaits you!
Download & Availability
Junk Jack Retro is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Junk Jack Retro on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game was part of our childhood. We still play it once in a while.
MULTIPLAYER PLEASE PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU IT WOULD BE THE COOLEST THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD OF JUNK JACK.
How about a virtual reality Junk Jack Retro 1.3.1 as is (think about it).
Im no noob Ive played on both our old ipad and old ipod touch a long time ago.Can you please make one suggestion though? Can you please make valentine hearts less rare or remove them? Everytime when we search for treasure we always find those little edible hearts and its so annoying.
Its a fantastic game but why still no pause while crafting and looking in craft book lt would be nice it if pause like junk jack x.
But Once we started it was Combats also another problem but we love how free the game lets you be in in minecraft you are forced to punch wood All DAY in ur first day But it's a nice mix of blockheads terraria and minecraft.
Junk jack came to iOS FIRST before the "PC" port of Terraria ..Junk Jack is made for mobiles and not some PC port .. Pros : many things to craft Much to do, ours, explore, craft, gather.. Fight decorate play online with friends ! The graphics are great ! The inapps are optional but help support the dev we recommend grabbing the full crafting book.. Offline wifi is not needed to play ! Easy to pick up hard to put down … Cons: we got this as a Freebie they were doing and it has yet to appear in our purchases as bought ..yet allows us to review proving we have it Otherwise decent game if you like this please go grab Junk Jack it's got WAY WAY more fun and features! Ive had that for a long time and love it.
This game is just like terraria and that is all we have to say because this game is really fun.
This is better for than terrarria in our opinion and we love the map packs too! Wish it was online though so we could play with our siblings and friends. Please come out with more updates.
We like this game more than Terraria game and now with this latest amazing update we can enjoy more of this game on the big screen of our iPad Pro. Thanks for the update.
We like the game but it would be way better if it had creative mode.
THANK YOU for updating this game!!! When we first bought it we never really clicked with it. We tried multiple times to get into it, but just couldn't. But over the last couple years, we've grown to enjoy the crafting genre and the update prompted us to give this another shot. Now, 4 days later or so, and we've spent pretty much all of our spare-time digging, collecting materials and building everything we can. This game is fantastic. Especially with the casual/no enemy option… You can play to relax or go digging looking for stronger and stronger enemies and weapons. Once we build a few homes we're completely happy with, it's great to know we've got a-whole-nother Junk Jack game to get into! Again, THANK YOU for not just abandoning this game and making sure it'll last into the near future (and hopefully get you a few more new fans as well!). Very recommended for crafting fans.
We love this game but it has not go a content update in 6 years. We want Multiplayer up to 4 play on local and online please add more content.
We wish the game was more responsive to dragging items. Sometime when you try to move an item, it take several tries to be able to move it.
We had this game quite a while ago and enjoyed it and had no problems. So we decided to get it again and went to craft a door and it wouldn't work it was the exact recipe and that is what frustrates us a door is a basic item to a house.
It's ok…but it's confusing when we got on…we're like what and WHAT!?sooo it's not worth 2.99…it's worth FREE.
Terreria is way better and for the same price. We don't get the games point. It's fun, but it's already been made, and better.
Super fun and addicting for a couple days… Then incredibly boring and redundant.
We tried it for five days. Deleted.
Crashing in iPhone 6 iOS 10.1.1.
After jj retro update it crashes on opening on the iPhone 6 plus.
We love it we only started yesterday but we made it vary far we love it but it needs an update like adding armor and clothes also multiplayer plus chat like junk jack x we know we can just download we but we dont have enoght $ so plz add this we are giving 5 so plz add.
We absolutely love this game, we just wish it were updated for the new resolution screens like for the iPhone 6, it doesn't take that much away from the game but it's just a thought. Other than that complaint, which isn't that big, we love it.
We AM IN LOVE WITH THIS GAME but we wish for some more update.
Could use an update to support modern displays.
Challenging but fun! Definitely worth the money! There are SO many things to collect and make! If you like Terrerria, Minecraft, The Blockheads, etc., you'll probably enjoy it.
We really like this game and was mining the other day we mined all the way to the place where the scarabs and the guy that looks like Anubis is and our inventory got full so we went back up to put some stuff away,but it wouldn't let us open our chest.we thought it was the settings so we went to settings and fiddled with them.That wasn't the problem.we went back on our world and tried to open different chests but it still wouldn't work.we later found out that our shelves were empty too.we don't know if this is a glitch or what,but PLEAAASSSEEE fix it we can't play if our inventory is full.To top it off this game is amazing but we can't open our chests and our shelves are empty for some reason. PLEAAAASSSEEE fix it we really like this game.
We've never been a huge fan of Minecraft or Terraria. We recently decided to look for more sandbox type and open survival games, which is how we ended up here. The graphics are good quality, the gameplay speed is perfect, and it has its own unique features as well. We'd highly recommend this game to players who want a bit of a different play style for sandbox games and for ones who want a game that you can play at your own pace.
First thangs first please add more characters that you can buy like maybe a jewl one that drops jewls and it could drop diamonds to very rarely though and second thing you should make it to where you can find rare treasure chest on land so you don't have to dig down so far and 2 more things that we thought of one of them is another character the character is a character that drops treasure and you can display them!! The other thing is you should make a machine that you can build and you can trade in treasures that you have multiple of thanks for reading hope you make these changes oh and also please make junk jack x more compatible for we phone 4 thank you.
We want armour in this game and armour slot and the armour can only be crafted using anvil and they have a armour slot in inventory with 4 slots going down and a model scale of your character with the equipped armour.
When they sleep we think that is should be more realistic like maybe making them sleep under the sheets and having their eyes closed . We'll raise our rating when u do that.
This game is better then terria.
We love this game. We play on an iPod touch 2g and it runs very smooth! Nice graphics. But what we want to know is if there will ever be an update to this game, not junk jack x but junk jack. Please reply.
Junk jack x and jack jack also add a multiplayer for Terraria and junk jack x free.
This is the best game on AppStore! We love it's simplicity. It is better than minecraft.
We love this app but stopped playing because we can't make tinkers tools! We tried every recipe on safari and it does not work! Plz help us or make an update to help.
This game is great but we wish u could make your character like junk jack x pls put that in normal junk jack.
This game is rhe best and if someone agrees with us be friends with us we are ErictheRx.
We love this game but it would be better if there were water and fish or other things in the water.
We love it so far but we have a question is there doors and windows? Please answer.
Since we like pixbits and junk jack so much we'll buy junk jack x.
It's now day 62…. We took the time to write a review for junk jack. All that matters in life is that we get a diamond junk jack is more important than life. On so here is the truth. This game is awesome!!!! It is totally worth buying. Especially if you are bored of minecraft and terraria. They are both great games, but they can get boring. This is a great game to take a break from those other games.
Amazing game as we love its easy to play controls so you can play this on iPhone AND iPad quite easily! This game is great as we beleive it combines Minecraft PE and Terraria Mobile (we have both) together in creativity and content! We love its great and fresh item ideas, and we got Junk Jack X too! We would advise you to get the X version if you got the money as it has multiplayer and regular updates filled with new and new and more and more content! But if you want to get the Junk Jack Original, go ahead get it.
Its good but it really needs multiplayer in junk jack x there's multiplayer so u can do it in this one right then ill rate it 1000 stars:D.
Love the game, but we really hate those TNT zombies wrecking our stuff up all the time.
This game us very bad it is terrible JK best app ever we love it more than minions like bananas.
Plz make a update where there's villages and villagers and village gladiators that protect villages and give you tools every hour.
There's one small problem, we would love it if you make the game full screen for itouch 5 gen, plz and thanks.
IM OBSESSED WITH THIS EPIC GAME.
IGNORE ALL OF THE BAD REVIEWS! They are not right. They are just haters on games like these. This game beats minecraft and terraria all day! There are so many crafting recipes, biomes, mobs, and architecture ideas. Perfect game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.1
- Size: 32.19 MB
- iOS: 7.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Pixbits SRL
Last updated: 17th November 2016 | Genre: Adventure, Education | Developer: Pixbits SRL