Junk Jack
Step into the gaming world with Junk Jack, one of the top $4.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Pixbits SRL, this captivating Education game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 4+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 29th August 2013, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 5th January 2021.
Whether you have a liking for Education, Adventure, or Simulation games, Junk Jack is sure to keep you hooked!
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Dive into Junk Jack
Welcome to Junk Jack! It is a 2D sandbox where you can explore, build and survive in randomly generated procedural worlds, full of monsters, hidden treasures and beautiful landscapes, now even in multiplayer with friends!
- Chosen by the AppStore as one of the #BestOf2013 crafting games in 9 countries! *
We are glad to deliver you the best Junk Jack experience ever imagined! A sequel which brings the game to a whole new level with multiplayer, multiple planets, creative mode, liquids, plenty of equipment to customize your character and much more! Plus all the features you loved from Junk Jack Retro (and, we hope, less features you hated!)
This is not a freemium game, buy it once and enjoy the full game experience!
Features:
- local multiplayer up to 4 players and online multiplayer up to 2 players
- a creative mode to unleash your creativity and build everything you can imagine
- a fully featured equip system with more than 400 different wearable items to enhance your adventures or just to make your friends envy!
- polished pixel graphics, full retina support
- combat Uber Mobs and obtain their loot by destroying rare world altars!
- a fully fledged electronics engine allows the creation of complex widgets, even complete CPUs!
- tenths of wonderful music tracks by Bright Primate
- intuitive controls: swipe to move and tap to interact with everything
- an adventure mode that will let you travel between 12 multiple planets with different and intriguing environments
- liquids to enhance or impede your explorations: avoid dangerous lava or go for a swim in a surface lake!
- infinite procedurally generated worlds to make every adventure always different
- a dynamic day/night cycle that blends with wonderful skies in parallax
- a vibrant coloured lighting engine that will make you enjoy every minute spent in Junk Jack worlds
- character customization, you can play also as a female!
- a rewarding exploration thanks to treasure chests full of cool things
- tamable dogs, cats and many other animals that will follow you around
- more than 1000 crafts to be built
- more than 2000 treasures
- more than 440 placeable items
- more than 270 different creatures and monsters
- explosives, shelves, signs, dyes and all the features you liked in Junk Jack Retro
- a complete farming system with more than 70 plants, even many alien and exotic plants
- an in game guide that will teach you how to play
- two ways of crafting to accommodate even needs of casual users
This is just the beginning, we already have many ideas for the next updates!
For every issue just contact us on our forum at forum.pixbits.com
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Junk Jack on 5th January 2021:
This small update addresses issues with newer iOS devices on which controls didn’t work properly!
Hear from the Players – Junk Jack Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Junk Jack:
Amazing app doesnt even lag like minecraft does.
The Game is VERY great, we highly recommend it, BUT the Multiplayer mode needs a bit of work, there is a chance it can glitch, example: one player is on the roof on their screen but the other sees them on the floor, it does need a patch.
This game is amazing and all and its good as terraria! This game has entertained us for years and its so fun to explore! But theres one question we have, how do you use portals? We’ve been trying to figure out how to use portals but it didnt work and still dont know yet and Im so curious whats in there. So please let everyone get a hint of how to make and use the portal.
Game is such a classic, give it some last love!
Its good just crashes on character creation when we try to name our character.
THIS GAME WONT WORK ON IOS 9 DEVICES ANYMORE THE GAME WILL CRASH! USE IOS 10 DEVICES AT LEAST.
Recently there was an issue where you couldnt touch any option on the screen but the update fixed it. Thank you so much.
Super addicting, we find myself playing until 4 in the morning when we have to be up for work at 630am. Worth every penny. So much content it’s staggering. Have fun.
This game is phenomenal and we wish it still had updates and they didn’t give up on it :(
Long time player and glad to play a little more with the fix, thanks gang.
Man we remeber playing this game when we were like 9 and we remeber the amount of players you could que up with online, and to be honest we feel like the game concept and stuff like thay and just this game in general could be big and stuff if it just got out there more. We dont even know its a good game we just miss playing it with random people.
Junk Jack is an amazing game. We’ve played it for years , we’ve recently encounter a bug that exited us out the game and it didnt save so we lost all our items that we had found. Still a great game.
Amazing game a mix between Minecraft and terraria so much fun.
Switch has it, move it on here please.
10/10 recommend if you like builders, with an adventure style game. We’ve been playing this for years we hope the devs never give up on it.
Us and our bestfriend ryan back in elementary and middle school would go hard on this game,,, on the weekend for hours ,, on skype and everything,, wish pixabits had more of a presence with this game and a wiki ,, this game could be huge still .
We played when we were a little kid SO MUCH. Its honestly should be up there with Terraria and Minecraft (both of which we love). Awesome game!
So your wandering through the comments to decide if you should purchase this game! If youve come across this comment Ill give you a short review on the prose and cons. Now this game is not a Minecraft or terraria rip off! Its not, it has similaritys but its not the same game, it also has some portal knight inspiration as well! Its easy enough to play controls are responsive enough and menus and UI are good! Planets are all beautiful and well designed, crafting is decent and enemys are cool! We also love the idea of the little collectibles you can find. Now cons for us its really just building we dislike the building in this game and find it quite tedious. Anyways thats like it so hope this helps!
Holyyy cow this game is so good but so underrated. Before you say anything, THIS AINT A RIP OFF OF MINECRAFT TERRARIA OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. Terraria is more rpg, Minecraft is more simple. Junk jack takes both of those and throws it off the window. This is our first review we did in a while but its true, this game is so underrated but has more to do than Minecraft. (Sorry mc your really fun too.) Sadly barely anyone knows this and we feel, like its a bit overpriced. We played this game ever since the first one which was in 2013. The cons is micro transactions that are pay to win Atleast some of them which is why its a four star, still good tho. And still enjoyable at a lot of instances. This is all we have to say about the game, cya and buy it now.
Idk why but it will nit let us join our friends it freeses and then [uts us back on home screen of junk jack idk why.
One of the crafting options makes no sense to us whatsoever. It takes wooden boards in order to make wooden planks.. But in order to make wooden boards you just must use a wooden plank?
Rerelease with a free update. Keep the iaps. And add cloud support.
Controls arent bad as touch but add controller support and easily 5 star. Will update when that happens. Its 2021, this game + controller support is a must.
Great game. Went around collecting portal pieces to get back to our base. Got them placed down and the whole app crashed. Everything we did to our base was reset as well as all the portal pieces completely disappearing. They didnt even respond where we collected them from. Kinda ruined the game for me.
This game is great and very addicting, but would be vastly improved by controller support, iCloud saves (so you could play on multiple devices), multiple save versions in case you screw something up, and a fix for the recent crashing. Lately we’ve experienced several crashes that resulted in the repeated loss of hours of gameplay, which amounts to this being totally unplayable. At the very least, there needs to be some sort of auto-save feature to combat these types of crashes. Id certainly be willing to pay extra for any of these additional features but probably will have to delete this for the time being.
For Junk Jack uninitiated: its fun, rich in shear number of items and collectibles and has adorable pixel-ish artwork combining traditional pixel art graphics for character tools and items with sometimes incongruently detailed environmental blocks. Its built for mobile and excels at keeping the interface simple enough to be played with one finger or thumb. While Junk Jack wears its influences (Terraria, Minecraft) on its sleeves as a sandbox with heavy emphasis on crafting, it ultimately falls flat on basic play mechanics. Different weapon types deal different damage types effective on different enemies. The super-short list of quick-swap slots combined with frustratingly limited one finger control (no multi-touch) often means choosing to move, select weapons or attack, all in real-time when only one of those things can be done at a time. Regardless of what weapons you use, combat is almost universally hit that baddy as fast as possible to keep it pinned and air-juggle it to death. This unforgivably works for enemies of all tiers, bosses/mini bosses included. This often equates to NOT choosing an optimal weapon in favor of spamming attacks with whatever you have enabled at the time. Progression in the game is a laborious grind of acquiring new items with only marginal improvements in their damage or durability. Tools, weapons and armor can be enhanced through gem encrustation, but each item is limited to a single enhancement. Character and chest inventory sizes are exceedingly limited, so maintaining Armor/Weapon sets specialized to particular planets or biomes is extra tedious. Sadly, recent editions of the game (3.31) crash regularly with resulting inventory loss. After hundreds of hours in the game, this was the final dealbreaker for us. Junk Jack offers an outstanding quantity of trinkety items to change pets and character appearance. In this case, we would gladly exchange quantity for quality if weapons and armor abilities made a strategic difference, like classing in Terraria or Minecraft (both of which have exceptional replay value partially because of this).
This game would be great with it, but without it its just mediocre!
We love the game but we would love it even more if we had controller support!
Developer still makes money but had the wiki guide forum to this game took down dont see the need why we know not many people play this game anymore but we cannot get answers to anything anymore, we have reached out in many ways to get help but no response .
Too many crashes after we die and all items despawn super frustrating.
Wont open on iOS 13. No app support anymore. Waste of money. Such a bummer.
When your playing junk jack with 2 people the host can open everything but there stuff the other player cant and if they try it kicks them out of the game.
We were excited to play this with our boyfriend, so we bought it and as soon as we opened it we couldnt click on anything. No single player, multiplayer was joinable but we couldnt touch anything, not even the options worked. Really disappointed.
Played for hundreds of hours… But the last earth shattering compatibility told us to throw our old phone away… Guess ill throw away junk jack too :(
App says it supports it but won’t even open.
Honestly, we went into this one thinking joy, another terraria/ Minecraft clone. This game is actually really unique though. The diverse crafting options and huge mechanic of being able to travel to different worlds makes a very exciting and fun experience. Micro transactions are very fairly priced and we love the simplification of the crafting menu. Very underrated. Also we love the music on this. Almost enough to make us give it five stars on that alone. Really brings good atmosphere to the different planets. Adding this as a side note a few months after the original review, dont use ladders. They crash the game, plz fix. EDIT: just came out with a hot fix, idk if the ladders are still a problem. Small thing as well, trying to backspace a character or planet name when there arent any Letters or such crashes the game. Small issue, but still.
Mobile friendly crafter explorer. Great gameplay music and mechanics. Happy to see a stability update, shows signs the game devs are still invested with this gem of a game. Look forward to more content in the future.
Great game but constantly crashes.
We bought this game to play with our bf. Considering the fact there were bugs that made it impossible for us to forge, and items disappearing after farming for hrs, we still loved the game and learned to work around em. BUT since the latest update we cant even get into the game anymore. It wont let us push any buttons anymore and its just completely broken. Its a game with a lot of potential but unfortunately too flawed. We would just be cautious when it comes to purchasing this game.
We just bought this game and it wont even let us start, cant click on new game. FYI we have the iPhone 12 pro max.
We want our money back and if we dont then this app is getting shut down and Ill make it happen.
We would love for junk jack to have frequent updates also Im a big fan and we enjoy playing also our gaming partner. If there was many more updates we would be honored to be sponsored by you guys and stream on YouTube to get recognition the game deserves.
We played this game when it was junk jack x and loved it then and love it now but we wish their would be another update cause we would love to see what else you could add and also make playing online easier for iPhone users who wanna play with Samsung but honestly love the game also maybe even bigger worlds or just some friendly human entity that you could trade or barter with would be nice.
A work of art. Here are some fun things you can do: Go lava fishing on the moon ours for treasures in secret underground biomes Build a mansion made of precious minerals Wear a zombie hat while teleporting to a jungle planet Attack skeletons that throw dynamite at you Collect one of the thousands of treasures and display them on your wall (there are so many references) ours with your friends Run for your life while a giant slime hops after you Have a pet unicorn follow you around Become tiny Wear a fishs head Become huge Destroy mummies on the desert planet Seth Wear things like sunglasses, top hats, golem heads, space zombie boots, bandanas, slime chest plates, and hundreds of other bizarre and wonderful things Farm tons of plants such as the Harry Vervain Bean Put an octopus in your aquarium About five thousand other things And, for the record, Junk Jack came out -BEFORE- Terraria.
We love this game so much we have played it for years and it has been one of our favorite sandbox games but the only problem is that not enough people play this game and everytime we try to play multiplayer we cant find anyone on the online multiplayer tab to play with but we love this game.
After 75hrs of playing this game on our iPad Pro 11 inch, we couldnt imagine the amount of efforts that have been put in this game. Textures are well made, sound design, gameplay control and every thing looks perfect!, and this game is really deep, its not simple!, every time we say ok, looks like there is nothing left, and then we realize there are tons of things we havent explored. We play this game in very hard mode, and its not quite challenging for us, we believe its a collecting + building creativity driven game not challenging driven. No regret about 5$ + 2$ spent in IAP at all!. We LOVE IT, and hope the devs are doing well to come with new major updates!.
Playing it from the launch and consider JJ the best mix of complexity and simplicity. Its just the best explore/craft game for us. As we get a new ios device – this one is always gets the space on it. With the latest fix [alas it was a year ago] the game became as close to PERFECTION as possible. Please, DEVELOPERS, continue support of this gem through changing ios versions and THANK YOU.
Would love to see mifi support!!!!!
Awesome game, but it needs a help feature. For instance, how do you make portals? Edit: Portals dont work in multiplayer.