TL:DR You'd be hard pressed to find a game as rewarding and well-made as this one.

For the full review, I'm going to break things down by mechanics and features. New players will also be able to learn some useful tips about the game, by reading this.So, let's start with:For starters, this game is pretty funny. It doesn't take itself seriously, and has jokes and humour littered througout. The thing is, it's all quite well done, and creates an enjoyable world to explore and discover. The characters you'll meet are often silly and entertaining, but not in any way that breaks immersion. Overall, it's very well done, and by doing the storyline quests and side quests, you unlock more recipes and ingredients to use to make your character even stronger.The crafting system in the game is very well done. There are different crafting stations for different tiers of equipment and tools. There are a lot of similarities between this system and Starbound, however this one ups that by offering ideas that make it easier to craft. One of my favourite features of crafting is the ability to track a recipe. Click "Track" then you'll see what ingredients you'll need to craft that item. As you collect the ingredients, you'll see how much you have, and how much you still need, in order to make that item.Recipes are another fun aspect of the game as you start with a bunch when you make a new station. You can also get new recipes from finishing quests. My favourite feature, however, is that you can get epic and legendary recipes from resource drops, mob drops, and fishing. It's very rewarding to kill an enemy and suddenly see a recipe box pop out. It could be anything from a new piece of furnature for your house to a legendary blueprint for a piece of equipment.Crafting is this games' killer app, and it really is killer.Exploration in Crashlands is very similar to Don't Starve. You start at your pod, and as you travel further out, your map gets filled in, block by block.The further away you get, the more interesting (read:dreadly) the enemies become. Then again, the greater the risk, the greater the reward. There are lots of interesting places to discover, and NPC locations are littered everywhere, which results in gaining new quests, learning more about the planet you've crashed on, and of course, more recipes and lot.It also helps that the art style in Crashlands is wonderfully colourful, with lots of glowy things that light up the world in a myriad of colours. Exploration is FUN FUN FUN in Crashlands.At a certain point in the game, you're going to gain access to a hearth for cooking, and later, a fishing rod for fishing.Unlike a lot of games that have fishing spots randomly appear in different places, fishing spots are permanent in Crashlands. That means you can place signs (assuming you've crafted some) at any spots you find, and come back to them every two hours. At one point, I was using signs to label sites on the map, but eventually the game one upped that by giving me a recipe for an item that creates fishing spots in any body of water I choose.Let me remind you, fishing spots are pemanent, so these items were a Godsend, as fishing is not only very rewarding, it's also very enjoyable. Add to that the fact that you can also gain legendary items and recipes from fishing, and you have a system that will keep you coming back for more.Fishing spot cooldowns will continue to count down, even when you're not playing the game, so long as you haven't left the game paused. Pausing the game and leaving it, unfortunately, also pauses timers. Bummer for sure, but this can be avoided by simply exiting the game when you walk away from it. The game saves everything automatically, so you won't lose anything by doing so.As for cooking, when you use the hearth, you'll have a bunch of recipes for potions. Potions provide health, speed, resistences, etc. There are all sorts of boosts and benefits from potions, so you'll want to pursue that, when the hearth comes available.Quick tip: There's a quest, not long after you get the hearth, that'll allow you to make really good health potions out of fish and stone. If you have a rod and a hearth, but not this recipe? Do some quests, it's worth it... so worth it.Building is another great feature in this game. It's extremely simple to get some building supplies, then activate build mode which will allow you to click (or tap) anywhere on the screen to place that item.Additionally, each building type is seperated into function. Floors have their own section, so it's easy to select that item set, choose a floor type, and just start pasting those floor tiles down the way you want.Vegetation (farming... yes, this game TOTALLY has farming) is another section, and you can plant your seeds, and place potted plants which can both be harvested after a 15 minute cooldown.Again, cooldowns will continue to count down while you're out of the game, so be sure to check back on your farms, from time to time.Here is perhaps one of my favourite features of Crashlands, you can have pets! Pets serve two features. First, you can feed your pets to harvest resources from them. These resources can be used in certain recipes, and often come in really handy.The second function, and perhaps the most important, you can take one of your pets out with you while you explore. They'll fight for you, while they keep you company. Additionally, they're invincible, so you don't need to worry about them getting killed by other baddies. They also don't need to be fed to stay aline, feeding is only something you do when you want to... milk them...How about one more awesome point of keeping animals... Well, you can also unlock recipes for items that will cause your animals to permanently evolve into larger and more powerful versions. Each animal has multiple stages of growth, each one making them bigger, stronger, and look cooler, each time.You should get an egg drop for each enemy type, shortly after you've crafted a station that can make that animal's nest.Keeping animals is absolutely worth it, in this game.There's loot... lots and lots of loot. When you kill creatures, fish, harvest resources, etc, you'll get showerd with items and materials. The key point here is that there is not traditional inventory with a sprawling list of things you have and don't have. The inventory system manages all of that for you, and there is NO LIMIT TO INVENTORY SPACE. As you pick things up, they will scroll by discreetly on the left, along with a number in brackets which indicates how many you have in total.The inventory system in Crashlands is another one of those features that makes you wonder why it has taken so long for a developer to think of it. It's clean, efficient, simple to figure out, and cuts out all the mess of traditional inventory spaces.As mentioned before, all enemies, resource points, and fishing have a chance of dropping some epic items, so there will be a lot of "OMG That's AWESOME" moments in your adventures with Crashlands.Seems I'm at the word limit for this review, so let me just sum it up by saying, Crashlands is one hell of a good game. It aces its presentation, mechanics, sense of rewarding, and enjoyment. If you haven't purchased it yet, do yourself a favour and get in on the fun.