#junk jack

junk jack (2011) is what happens when minecraft but 2D. wait, that's terraria, isn't it?

junk jack (2011) is what happens when terraria but it was originally on your phone.

there, that's better.

other than that, i have very little to say of this one. as much as i enjoy my little mining building sims, i've never really played minecraft, so this was kind of my little pocket introduction to the genre. and... eh, i don't care much for it to be honest.

there's definitely a bit of an addictive loop to the mining building aspects, and i like how the game provides a map to show you what you've already discovered. you can also collect little pocket companions who don't do much, but one of them can follow you around just for the fun of it. but that's about where my own personal investment ended.

you can also theoretically find objects to help you travel into other worlds, but i never made it that far into it.

now, my question here is, is this an adventure game? i would say no. as broad as the definition of adventure games are, one of their main signifiers are that there's a story. (the term itself originates from a 1976 game called 'Colossal Cave Adventure' that was one of the first of what we'd later call text adventure games.) whoever is updating these wikipedia pages: call me for a crash course in video game genres.

overall, my impression is that junk jack was best utilized as a mobile game thanks to its simplified mechanics, but then again, i don't actually have the necessary benchmarks to compare it to other games of its type.