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Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

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Quick resume

Create, customize and command your battle wagon to conquer crazed enemy factions and save innocent survivors scattered throughout the lawless Badlands in the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse. Do you have what it takes to Build, Evolve and Fight to survive?

Global score

79/100

Genres

Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulator, Strategy

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    Pros

    • Deep vehicle customization and building
    • Engaging crew management and combat
    • Large semi-open world with exploration
    • Strong progression and rpg elements
    • Immersive post-apocalyptic atmosphere and music

    Cons

    • Driving ai can be frustrating and unpredictable
    • Some ui and control issues especially with building
    • Minor bugs and occasional performance stutters
    • Crew specialization and recruitment could be improved
    • Weight and upgrade balance limits creative freedom

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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      "Strong emphasis on creative vehicle building, customization, and experimentation with parts and designs."

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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      "Players feel connected to the game's community and characters, though social multiplayer is absent."

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    • Growth

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      "Players develop crew skills, unlock abilities, and upgrade ships, showing clear progression and learning."

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    • Health

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      "The game is a sedentary experience with no physical activity or health-related mechanics."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires active attention during real-time combat and strategic decisions; not a background or idle game."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Limited to emotional attachment to crew members but no social or close interpersonal interactions."

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    • Leadership

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      "Players lead and coordinate the crew, making strategic decisions and managing roles."

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Creativity. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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    Last update: 30/04/2026