Beginning in Day 1 Dawn, the game progresses through four stages (Dawn, Noon, Dusk, and Night), each with a separate color scheme and new theme of traps, but unlike in the first game, the game features new tactics such as flying in both directions, new obstacles such as water, liquids, flamethrower, frost, magma and searing light.

[5] The game also offers standalone challenges stages for the player to compete against their friends via the online leaderboard.

[6] The new version of game also included 3 different modes: survive the longest, save the most clones or reach the end fastest.

[7] Badland 2 received positive reviews from critics, ending up with a Metacritic score of 91.

[8] Nathan Reinauer, writing for Touch Arcade praised the sequel's updated controls and new mechanics.