Crashlands
Crashlands is an outlandish story-driven-action-adventure set in a world of hidden magic and high technology. Tame and milk alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the locals, and go…
Crashlands is an adventure developed by Butterscotch Shenanigans, released 20 January 2016 on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android and iOS. The main story takes about 44 hrs to finish.
What Crashlands is
Crashlands is an adventure game developed by Butterscotch Shenanigans and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Crashlands is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Butterscotch Shenanigans. It was released on the App Store, Google Play and Steam in January 2016. The game is described as being a "story-driven crafting game" and tasks players to collect resources in order to craft items such as weapons and armor.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 36 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Crashlands holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 44 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 77 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 Ghz, 2.5 GB RAM and 128mb Video Memory. At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Crashlands launched on 20 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Crashlands yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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