Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 11:14 pm
Crashlands – Adventure Game Review
Crashlands is a Adventure/Roleplaying/Entertainment game from Butterscotch Shenanigans, Inc., first launched in 21st January 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 1,158+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Crashlands Stand Out
"…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!
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Crashlands is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd January 2025
Recent improvements include:
Edited the store listing to display gamepad support.
Download & Availability
Crashlands is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
The game is a vast world with many monsters to fight. It's fun and very creative with a great RPG system. We personally love it and would definitely recommend to anyone who likes survival-crafting type games.
This game is extremely close to a console quality game. We've tried a couple times to enjoy a crafting style game, but games always lost us pretty quick due to the tediousness of the game. The size of the screen makes it kind of annoying in our opinion to play a game that you have to focus on organizing your items .This is a sandbox style game with RPG elements and a story line to go with it. It's simple enough to play on your iPhone and the controls are simple and don't exhaust your hands in the first 10 minutes of playing. The art style is extremely nice as well. We've owned an iPhone for 3 years now and played probably over 100 games. This is the first review we have ever wrote for any app we've owned. These developers honestly need donated too. The App Store needs more apps like this. If your on the fence like we were we wouldn't hesitate. Your missing out on hours and hours of fun gameplay.
No joke. This game blew us away. Still many hours into it and it's as enjoyable as ever. The writing is hilarious. Gameplay is on point. And so many ways to play. Can't recommend it enough.
Butterscotch you guys make the best game ever (for us at least) to us this game is truly a Five star game #spaceduckpie.
The characters, setting, and sense of humor are unique, original, and thoroughly entertaining. Gameplay minimizes annoyances to focus on fair challenges. Hours of addictive gameplay that doesn't get old. Thank you devs for this masterpiece, and we can't wait to play what you make next.
It's a very fun game with a long story. There are plenty of things to do, plenty of quests, and plenty of deaths.
Great game! PLEASE come out with an expansion pack or better yet a part 2.
The first time played this game we through it will be a waste of money.it turn to be a epic rpg.we should battle the bosses without restarting the game.it would take a long time.
This game is like minecraft only with lots more stuff to build. Best story ive seen on ios the conversations between characters are hilarious. Its a hard game but totally worth the money that you spend.
This is the perfect game. A mix between terraria and don't starve. The two genres have perfect synergy . The steam version is just as good as mobile. 10/10 would recommend :P.
You may be our favorite game making company like ever. All of your new games all have FIVE STARS!? What!? And we love all them and if we have to tell the truth we think Crashlands is your best game yet! Keep up the good work.
We got it and we can't stop playing it its so addicting and it deserves 5s and it's worth the 5 you should definitely get it.
This is no doubt one of the best (if not the best) mobile App Store games we have ever played. They did an amazing job with the the mobile version. This game is great because it is open-world, in a Don't Starve kinda way, but it is so much more. It shows that mobile games have the power to be really good. The game itself has many things that we like. For example, the crafting. Even though the inventory management is absent in the game, the crafting is still great, with levels of crafting stations. Another thing we like is the combat. It is actually strategic rather than relying on brute force. The monsters have attack patterns that you need to memorize in order to survive the fight. You can also steal their children and make them fight each other. Mwhahahahaha. Also, the boss fights are intense! We really enjoyed fighting them and longed for more boss fights. We're not finished with the game yet, so we don't know if there is something for this, but it would be cool if the Labyrinth in Savanna would have another boss each day. There is plenty more to say, but those are our best things to say. Overall, great game. 10/10. We really want to buy the computer version on steam. Steam sale pls.
THIS IS GAME IS THE BEST GAME we HAVE PLAYED SINCE 2014.And it's worthy of 5 Stars!we have played it and we can't stop.
Wow. This game was amazing! We absolutely loved the storyline and the gameplay. We played it and finished both adventure and insane mode. We definitely recommend this game. We are so hyped for the up coming creator mode.
Pay once, and that's it! Tons of content, lots of fun. Best mobile game we've played in a while.
We think the app is one of the best crafting games in the App Store. It gives a lot of adventure and quest which in our opinion make the game better as well. Even though this is one of the hardest parts of the game, fighting bosses is really fun. The only thing we wish was added in the game is multiple languages, because we were trying to teach a friend but he could not really understand because it was only English. Otherwise we think the game is awesome. Thanks Butterscotch Shenanigans.
This game is very good BUT PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ADD MULTIPLAYER ON THIS IF YOU DO ITS MY FAVORITE.
The game is very fun to play and very well made. We would strongly recommend this to anyone who enjoys playing games on their mobile device. We never leave reviews on apps though, but decided to for this game because the patchnotes link in the update description (bit.ly/crashlandspatchnotes) leads to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. Legendary, and what we should have expected from Butterscotch Shenanigans by now.
Butterscotch just rick rolled us.
Awesome game to kill spare time. So much content, yet the grind is well paced with unlimited fast travel and inventory. Not to mention the comedy as a cherry on top. Well worth the 5$ As a side note: we recommend starting the game on the easy difficulty as some battles can draw out for several minutes only to be one hit by the 'easy' enemy.
We love this game but we are not able to play it because whenever we go into the freaking app it crashes when we open the map or just start moving around. Our suggestions are to either make the game take up more space or just fix the crashes! Thanks for reading this.
What game makes there UI unresponsive about 70% of taps? IPhone 6s + BTW.
We love the game so far!! We do hope that multiplayer through the Game Center and also controller support are coming in the future!!! Keep up the good work.
Our progress was deleted after we updated the game and we couldn't get it back :(.
We have never played the PC version, but we have read the many great reviews and decided to try it on the iPhone.. Big mistake. The game is broken to the point where you will get killed by most enemies in one hit even if you have the third tier armor. The controls are awful, it just doesn't work with touch. If you like dying over and over again then this is the game for you. We want our money back.
Crashlands is like a tame iOS 2D sandbox version of Borderlands. You are constantly killing wild animals and foraging for supplies in order to make new supplies, only to then again fight "stronger" animals for new supplies. Grinding is the entire game. The missions are composed of two types: Retrieve or kill. There really aren't any enemy types because all of them are just wild animals. Most of the them won't even attack you if you walk on through. The writing is an attempts at whimsical banter but this gets old quickly. There are no characters to attach to. Normally games like these have a certain curve to overcome. We gave Crashlands over 10 hours and then called it quits. The one highlight is the sound department.
Game halting bug in main quest 2 hours into game. Hit twice in separate games. Waste of money.
Played this game start to finish at least twice at release. Still pop it open for nostalgias sake (and because everything ever by Butterscotch Shenanigans has proven worthy of a spot on our phone for ever and ever. When we lost everything on our phone 3yrs ago and had to start fresh, whose games do you think we downloaded first?! BScotchs. They got us through a time of uncertainty, having lost all our other apps & app data (yeah, we pay for iCloud storage now, okay?!). And they got us through with smiles, to boot. This time around? No crisis led us to replaying Crashlands again we did it of our own free will. Just really hope we meet our old pals w/ the Quadropus Gang real soon, because Im missing that Racket.
The game doesnt even load anymore just crashes on startup of the game needs to be fixed.
Epic game good job hardcore is truly hardcore. It hurts. But it feels so good. Goodbye.
We bought this back when it released, it was really good. We tried to play again just now, but it repeatedly crashes at the startup screen.
Inherently over the years screens on devices get bigger. In no way should that negate controls. This game is ok but the touch and maneuvering is very frustrating.
This game was great when it was playable. We cant even open it now. It crashes every time.
Your family and loved ones wont see you for days if you get into this game, 10/10.
This is one of the best games we have played on iOS. This is one of the very few games (on any platform) that we have played to the end, even other games that we consider very good. We still typically get bored once we get to powerful. We have replayed this game 4 times now over the last few years. The story is very entertaining and funny without being to wordy. The game play is extremely enjoyable, the crafting and fighting are balanced perfectly. We never felt like the search for material was boring or tedious. The changes in location, which changes the enemies and gear happen at just the right time to keep us engaged. We definitely consider this a AAA game. Very well made. The only other game that we have played only on IOS that we feel is comparable is Steamworld heist.
We got the game awhile back now it wont even open so we can play. Please fix.
We remember we did have an account on this game. But it has been so long since Ive played and when we came back on recently, we saw our saved progress wasnt there anymore. When we tried to log in, it would say code 7 with everything we tried. We really dont want to start over.
There are no words we Can use to express our love for this game. Simply a masterpiece.
This game is a masterpiece! Good gameplay, many many many things to do, great replay value, just amazing overall. The only slight issue is that there are some small bugs. But none of those are game breaking in any way. 1000/10.
We love Crashlands, its been one of our favorite games for a while, but we just found out, the hard way, that if the game crashes while you are talking to an npc your pet has a chance to disappear. Now we have to grind for a mother max Lyff, so that cool, we guess.
We had this on Apple+ but didnt continue our subscription and instead bought this since it was the only game we were playing. Awesome.
Hi so we really like this game but we dont like how youre forced to play survival first and that you have to beat survival first for the game. Another thing we hate we absolutely hate this part when you are fighting enemies and flux dies on you when you respawn and head back to the mission the enemies health is fully restored like seriously it just makes the mission even harder and worse like whey couldnt there health stay the same as when we were attacking them. And fought them like why do they get a free heath boost like really we mean come on surely you might have seen that error before.
It needs to have creator mode to unlock after you complete a portion of the story mode with all perks to unlock in it by completing certain levels or quests on story mode. We think that is the one thing that would make this game absolutely Perfect for all players to our opinion.
Great game. Should make some kind of purchases available. Legendary armor purchase, sword, etc…. Other than that. Its awesome.
We love this game. Please make a sequel.
Pls do this we wanna play with our friends.
We had uninstalled the game around 2-1 years ago and realized that that was not a good idea the game is awsome if you play it right and grandmamy has flashbacks of the war.
Multiplayer on iPad? Can someone help XD.
So wow, we were playing this game with touch controls and really liked it, storyline, mechanics, the humor. Then we got a rotor riot controller for our phone! Now Im absolutely in love! This team is off the charts talented, we also have Levelhead and the quality and polish of their games is absolutely amazing! No joke best game publishers Ive played, move over blizzard , the humor and care is truly birthed from a labor of love, this is more than a game. Well done guys we gladly will spend to buy your games, even better you dont nickel and dime with micro transactions. We applaud you good sirs! Take our 5 stars and 7 bucks! Our money delivered real gooooood.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 100.0.160
- Size: 114.82 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Butterscotch Shenanigans, Inc.
Last updated: 23rd January 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Butterscotch Shenanigans, Inc.