Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Apr 29, 2016

  Big fan of the iOS version, looking forward to playing a lot of this on my Mac. For those who are asking what the difference is between this and similar games, for me, Junk Jack is all about collecting lots of "junk". It has more pixel crack than a pixelated back alley in Pixel New York City. Tons of rares, recipes, etc. Explore, build up an awesome base, gather all the pixel crack. It's a relaxing way to just dig around and catch 'em all. This game also has a ton of crafting recipes, farming, and an extensive gardening system. If you like fighting mega bosses, stick with Terraria. If you like 3D, stick with Minecraft. If you like hundreds of chests filled with all the junk, because you should be the star of a Let's Play Hoarders youtube episode, then this is the game for you. Pro tip: build your base on one world, and then "exit" the game and go to another world to do all your digging / exploring. You can switch back and forth between worlds as much as you want. If you're digging deep in to dangerous areas, carry a stack of beds, and periodically drop a bed, then use it to change your spawn point. This'll greatly reduce the distance you have to run after you get killed. UPDATE, May 9, 2017 - Still loving this game. Took a break for a few months, came back after the Uber Mob update. Love the new bosses, love finding totems, and the overall junk drop rate is vastly improved. Actually making progress on my collection! At 300 hours and starting to think I should reconsider my life goals.
• gamedeal user

  May 6, 2016

  INTRODUCTION: At first glance, you may think that Junk Jack looks like a clone of a much more popular game, Terraria. While the similarities are there, I'd argue that this game's intentions are much different, and the art style is the similar aspect. If you're familiar with Terraria, Minecraft and Starbound, Junk Jack would be its child, introducing all the neat elements of each of those indie games. PROS: - More content than expected on Early Access. - Fun graphic/art style. - Music is well done (I have a con for this though.) - Multiplayer (however, it's a con currently as well.) - Wide variety of biomes and monsters. - Many things to collect in the game. - Simple AND advanced crafting for inexperienced or experienced sandbox-game players. - Weather system. - Good variety of settings for all areas of the game. - When your character falls in water, you're not limited to try to jump out of water. You can control swimming around with WASD. - Combat strafing with the CTRL key. CONS: - Combat is too simple, thus making fighting monsters challenging. Limited to a single strike, it's difficult to push back enemies and not be hit with a massive amount of damage. - Music is great when it's there, but often the game's music will stop playing for some time. - Multiplayer is currently experimental, and comes with bugs. Attempted doing a Steam game with a friend, didn't work. We eventually connected to eachother by IP through a router, but experienced some random disconnects every now and then. - Sound effects sound out of place, the quality of the effects don't blend well with the atmosphere of the game. - The price tag. Personally, for the current stage, I think $15.00 is asking for a little much. I'd price this game at $10.00. CONCLUSION: Steam has been plagued with many Early Access games, and many of them have turned out to be flunks. From what I can tell though, the Junk Jack developers are committed and have come to Steam with a fairly polished game. Updates seem to be frequent as well, and they listen to those who are interested in the game. Junk Jack, in my mind, is a good purchase if you enjoy indie sandbox adventure games. RATING: I'd give Junk Jack a score of 9/10 for now. In my mind, $1 = 1 hour of entertainment. I can see myself spending more than fifteen hours with this game. Happy building! EDITS: - No longer have the invisible wall as a con, as a patch added a world loop to replace it. - No longer have the Steam achievements as a con, because a patch has fixed them to work now.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 18, 2016

  I don't understand all the hate! This game is probably the best IOS port I have ever seen! Yes, you heard that right, it's a IOS port, [i]without[/i] Microtransactions or ginormous UI's. Most of the complaints i've seen were from low playtime. Give this game a chance people! People say this looks like terraria, even though the very first game (simply named junk jack) launched about 2-3 months [i][b]BEFORE[/b][/i] terraria. As for a review, buy it. The price may seem steep, but if you have played the game before or are new, it's a good game. I'll give it a 4.5/5. (Not 5/5 due to some very minor bugs :3) Update 9/26/16: Seeing as this is currently the top review, i fell like i need to put more game stuff in here. The game is a 2D exploration/building sandbox game, with no story except "Get portal peices, go to next planet, repeat untill all planets are done". It has a [b]BUNCH[/b] of items to collect, and most of it doesn't have a use (hench the "junk" part of junk jack), but that's the whole point of this game, collecting rare and unusual stuff. There are monsters, but right off the bat you can tell combat isn't the focus at all. I reccomend this game to anyone willing to pay the, currently, $15 price tag and actualy play the game longer than 2 hours.
• Danny K27

  Nov 22, 2016

  For those of you who would rather cut to the chase and get a short comparison, jump to the very bottom. Otherwise feel free to read all that i have here Don't be discouraged by the negative reviews comparing this game to Terraria. This is actually a very well made game which developers have been updating regularly since the original release of the game on IOS a few years ago. I will, however, give a brief overview of what the gameplay consists of and what you can expect to find as opposed to terraria. -Junk Jack is a "play your way" kind of game with various difficulty settings to from peaceful, which is a casual players setting, to very hard, which is the most challenging game mode featuring hordes of enemies which will kill you and make you drop everything once you die (once its dropped, its lost). Terraria, on the other hand, forces the player to fight enemies throughout the game. -Junk Jack is focused more towards looting rare items, weapons, and armor from enemies and chests where terraria is focused more on the fighting. Terraria players seek to collect mainly weapons and armor from defeating enemies and collecting ores from their underground spelunking. -Junk Jack now uses a very similar armor layout to terraria where there are "in effect" slots and "vanity" slots. So, say you have a piece of armor which gives you a stat boost you simply cannot go on without but its just so horrendously ugly. You can wear something you like in your vanity slot which will allow you to keep the stats of the armor while looking the way you like. -Junk Jack has a HUGE crafting system. Half of all the things that can be made will be crafted from one of the crafting tables which also have to be crafted. This crafting system brings alot of the excitement into the game because the players can search for the items down below ground required to craft it and maybe face off against a few enemies to obtain a rare piece needed to craft the objects. Terrarias crafting system is much smaller in comparison and players will be more concerned with crafting better weapons due to the nature of the gameplay. -Money is not an object in Junk Jack. You are the only human character in the game aside from other PC's playing with you in a multiplayer game. No NPC's. Everything is available to you but you have to find it or make it yourself. You can trade with players for items you need if you have something you can give to them in return. -Junk Jack has a creative mode which allows you to build whatever you like how you like it. You can design a house exactly how you would want, or maybe test a contraption design to keep the monsters at bay. Of course I didn't include everything which separates the two games but these reasons are what I feel distinguishes them most. For those of you who skipped to the end: Both games are 2d sandbox platformers with a wide range of weapons, armor, and blocks for you to build with. Junk Jack has more blocks, weapons, armor, and enemies than Terraria. Terraria is a tactful enemy grinding game with bigger bosses and more interesting weapons. If you want a HUGE sandbox game with freedom to do just about anything, go ahead and buy this, its well worth the money. If you want to fight off enemies and bathe in the glory of defeating moonlord on solo, play Terraria.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 5, 2016

  This game trash. lets get into why I say that, these are the biggest issues. -The premise of the game is to get stuff underground, which means you have to go back up. A LOT. You spend more time traveling back to the surface repeatedly do make things than exploring. My solution was to just keep my crafting supplies and thing in my inventory and not have a base or home which doesn't work well since there are small inventories. This isn't like other games of the sort (I have them all) with terraria there's recall potions or magic mirrors, starbound has ship teleport, Crea has warp stones so you can just teleport back to your house, Minecraft is a small world and not entirely based underground so this isn't an issue. -Combat is shit. You get a few bland tiny attack radius weapons and enemys that either slowly walk towards you and can never hit you, or throw things that dont do jack shit. You can get through the entire game without a weapon bcus you can place blocks almost anywhere on your screen and just block them off and kill them with lava or ignore them. -What's the point? its to collect items and get better equipment but there's no final goal it's just becoming a horder and mining for hours that isn't fun since combat is shit. -Portals, the way to travel planets is to find portal chests and once you get three you get a portal to another world, except when you press M it brings up a map that shows ALL LIGHT SOURCES EVEN IF YOU HAVN'T SEEN THE ARE YET WITHIN LIKE 50 BLOCKS OR MORE (you're 1 block large it's a large area around you that you can see on the map). which means all loot areas and portal chests (they glow) are basically mapped out for you, there goes the exploration part, the only thing this game had left. This game MIGHT be worth wasting some time on if it was free never buy this game get any others, Crea, Starbound, Terraria, Dig or Die 2, Minecraft, and if you've played all these and other worthwhile games of the type like I have don't waste your money on this.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 31, 2016

  I never write reviews, but I felt like I owe this to anyone who considers this game. I got completely misled by the other reviews. It's all a sham. Go to the subreddit for this game. It looks like a bunch of fake accounts made by the developers. The whole thing seems fishy to me. Who cares if it's a clone? We all like these sorts of games. The issue is that it's a BAD clone. There is no point to the game, there are no bosses, there is no story. You build a house and raise some animals. This alone would be fine, I'm a HUGE fan of games like Stardew Valley, however, the mechanics and gameplay are not intuitive, poorly explained, and once you understand them, they are poorly balanced. This game feels very amateurish, and I get the feeling from reading around online that not only does nobody actually play it extensively, but that the company posts all over getting fake reviews. The whole thing seems VERY suspicius that such an obviously poor quality game has such high reviews. Do NOT buy this game, it would be a waste.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 19, 2017

  Do not be fooled by most of the positive reviews posted by sheep who are far easily pleased. Nice graphics aside, this rather dull and boring game really isn't worth the price. Just another poor man's Terraria if you will.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 8, 2017

  I quite like this game. Its like terraria or starbound for people with bad computers. Worlds load really fast on default settings. There are quite a few negatives however or things some might find to be negatives. 1. Only 1 accessory slot and accessories are hard to craft. 2. Pets are only vanity when equiped. 3. Your only allowed 1 defensive potion buff at a time. 4. Its uses minecraft Light level decides spawning instead of Terraria player placed blocks prevent spawing. 5. Every planet feels like they use the same terrain generation on the surface with a different splash of paint 6. A ton of enemies very obviously share the same AI 7. You can't search crafts by item used in it (like searching wood widget and see every craft involving it). 8. No in game help or clues how to make potions (And quite a few potion ingrediants are rare drops). 9. Items fly into open hotbar slots (very annoying when farming) 10. No crafting while doing something else (similar to 7 days to die) to take some pain out of simple crafting. 11. No bosses or epic boss loot. 12. Lava destroys all items, no matter how important like portal pieces. 13. Buckets don't stack 14. Tons of animals you'd think you could tame but cannot like boars, foxes, squirrels, ect. 15. No Npcs to live with you like terraria/starbound. Or shop keepers. 16. Tons of food everywhere, but no hunger or thirst even on the hardest difficulty. 17. Tons of farm animals, but no horses or mounts. 18. Early game its easy to feel like your not progressing due to ore rarity. My second planet I unlocked was seth where I basically just found the same ores as terra. 19. Best ore for planet type are VERY VERY RARE. 20. Low Tool durability and slow mining speed. (even titanium tools feel like they break too quickly relative to how rare thier ores are) 21. Sometimes the music just stops for long periods of time. 22. You can craft a clock, but carrying it won't display the time like terraria/project zomboid. 23. When crafting it won't take into consideration whats in nearby chests. 24.Animals just instantly respawn if you leave an area and return so long as there is grass and its day (similiar to old school minecraft). So you can get all the cow, boar, bacon, ect meat and leather you want in a jiffy. 25. Enemies can't break doors. And can only get you if they spawn inside your base due to light levels. 26. Rare Treasure don't do anything, can't be sold, and don't say anything on them. 27. Things often have to be used or worn to add to collection. 28. No cool accesory granted abilities like teraria. 29. no repairing or enchanting items. 30. Ladders can only be placed from the bottom up. And ladder climb speed is terribly slow Vs minecraft ladders or terraria's ropes. That out of the way. This game has hundreds of blue print pages to find (Just a shame none of them list potion recipies) that show you how to craft things so you don't need a wiki like you do with minecraft. And theres a lot of planets to explore. Some end game enemies hit very hard on hardest difficulty settings, like 50% of my hp in a single hit in full unencrusted titanium armor. Undead burn in sunlight, animals drown in water, lava kills most things (but sadly destroys all drops). Theres a large number of redstone like items to create (more than i've seen in unmodded minecraft or terraria). You can farm (Though its extremely easy and requires no watering. But getting seeds can be quite hard for things like fruit trees), raise animals (more demanding), go fishing, hunt down the MANY MANY rare drop items, try to collect all the portal pieces to visit all 12 worlds (Not that you need too to reach end tier). Collect every treasure, all clothing, every pet, ect.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 1, 2017

  I bought this, yes wanting a game similar to Terraria. Yes it is but there are enough differences to make me happy with it not being some annoying knock off. It has a couple similarities to minecraft too. -blocks are bigger, so for me its easier to get around. -also lots of blocks to craft for building so its like minecraft to like that. -not as boss killing driven as Terraria. More collection driven. There still are mobs to kill. Don't worry. And there are bosses. -I love how you can collect tons of animals and even fish and make a fishtank with the fish. -You travel to different planets to find better ores/gear from mobs. -You find most of your crafting patterns in crates in your world, so keep searching :) or you can "cheat" and look on the try to look them up. I would say before you run saying its a knock off. Play it a while and give it a chance. The problem I have with it is there's just not a lot of info out there about it. And the game doesn't teach you a lot. So I think some people jump in and get confused and can't find stuff when they try to look it up. Overall I love this game. The devs are still working on it and I would say totally give it a try if you like Terraria or Minecraft type games.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 7, 2017

  I have found this game to be quite fun, the blocks are bigger and while this might be a turn off for some people... it really helps me due to vision issues. I find this game to be challenging at times, yet relaxing as well. The uber mobs are quit fun, I have only downed the first one (had to start over after I discovered by mistake not to let TNT explode near the summon thing) at which time I died many times over. I was brand new, so it was a noob mistake. This game may not be for everyone, but there are sooo many different tiles to use to build with, interect with and just have fun. Play how you want, either in creative mode or normal. Enjoy the game for what it is. Similar to Terraria but different enough that you don't feel like your playing a copy.