Rugged Rovers

Rugged Rovers Free Game

Rated 3.71/5 (13,574) —  Free Android application by Science Museum

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About Rugged Rovers

Design and test your own all-terrain space rover! Race against rivals (including friends!) as you jump gaping canyons and cross treacherous boulder fields. Go as far as you can and try to be the top rover!

Rugged Rovers, from the Science Museum in London, UK, features:

- Now you can RACE AGAINST FRIENDS in your network!
- New HIGH SCORES and ACHIEVEMENTS!
- Easy rover drawing tools, including movable motor and resizable wheels
- Dramatic Mars-inspired spacescape to test your rovers to the max
- Jet hover and speed boost to help your rover overcome terrain obstacles
- Top tips about how to solve common rover challenges

Your rover will be up against weird and wonderful designs some by your friends and some by real-life Mars rover engineer Abbie Hutty. Can your designs beat the professionals at their own game?

Mars rover engineer Abbie says: ‘Create, test and develop your very own Mars rover designs with this cool game – see if you’ve got the design skills to be a future space engineer like me!’

Play Rugged Rovers anywhere on your mobile or come to the Science Museum’s cutting-edge exhibition Engineer Your Future to play against your friends on our BIG screen.

Find out more about becoming an engineer: sciencemuseum.org.uk/engineeryourfuture

How to Download / Install

Download and install Rugged Rovers version 1.1.0 on your Android device!
Downloaded 500,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: com.preloaded.RuggedRovers, download Rugged Rovers.apk

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Game History & Updates

What's Changed
Now you can RACE AGAINST FRIENDS in your network!
New HIGH SCORES and ACHIEVEMENTS!
Version update Rugged Rovers was updated to version 1.1.0
More downloads  Rugged Rovers reached 500 000 - 1 000 000 downloads
More downloads  Rugged Rovers reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads

What are users saying about Rugged Rovers

C70%
by C####:

Game is amazing, but there is bug in it which prevents it from being perfect. The lifting boost dispforms tyres sometimes which make rover useless. Please make sure tyres are not shifted away and think of adding suspension(s)!

C70%
by C####:

I really love this game. It's very soothing and simple a verry good time killer and it's Sooooooooooooo relaxing so I say two thumbs up???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? AMAZING GAME. MY HIGH SCORE IS 434 by the way triangle is the best and so is carrot. But when I used a boost. So after I used it my tires were GONE THEY DISAPPEARED VANISHID WHENT BY BY AND LEFT.????????????????????????????????????????????????????I am not happy at all

R70%
by R####:

THE GAME IS GOOD one thing to say is that if your rover is a sertain shape ( curved,diamond) it becomes unbeatable. Got 2000 metres and then got bored of it. Make some more challenging obstacles please. Otherwise would have been 5 stars.

O70%
by O####:

I liked this game a lot before the recent update... my only qualm with it was that the camera would focus on whichever rover was ahead, making it impossible to make iterative improvements on my design because I never actually saw what caused my rover to fail. The new update fixed that problem... but it also broke the physics completely, and removed a lot of features that I liked - in particular the continuous spawning of new rovers to race against, and the daily world-wide highest ranked rover. I'd love to see those features again, and a return to the old physics - honestly I'd be happy to just have the old version back, complete with the annoying camera.

C70%
by C####:

The game is awesome but I would like the game even more if the rovers wouldn't be rotating and bouncing no matter what type of rover you make because that kind of ruins the genius idea and strategy because we try to make a rover that could adapt to any platform it passes but over all the game is really great but plz fix that :(

C70%
by C####:

I love the game, in fact I was about to give it 5 stars but suddenly while playing, I saw that when I used a power some of my wheels didn't re-apear where they were before and that completely (despite the redundancy) breaks/ruins the design.

C70%
by C####:

Great game except there is no save rover feature, which I would like to see. Also, make levels so you have to create different rovers.

A70%
by A####:

Boring. No control of wheel torque, friction, suspension, anything.

C70%
by C####:

Explain the forcing function on the wheels. And add a feature to have non-uniform weight distribution on the rover body to prevent spinning in place.

C70%
by C####:

Fun, but buggy. After a few hundred metres, the wheels move to bizarre positions rather than where you put them.

C70%
by C####:

If you have a near perfect rover that manages to go around the track a couple times with a boost that cools down in time the developers keep you from going on by offsetting your wheels. That's not nice, everyone can use the boosts, and there is a cooldown time after all. The map loops and is way to short. The app has a dependency (Google Play Games) which is kinda annoying, too.

V70%
by V####:

The loading screen after the first race with the CPU takes too long and as long doesn't show you what your doing while creating the Rover I freaking hate that BTW evrything is perfect except for the loading screen on local game play after on the first round/race

C70%
by C####:

With this new update a few things: first I like seeing my previous rover (or record holding rover) race against me. Second, I'm glad the cam focuses in my rover instead of whichever one leads. Third, I don't like that the rover seems to be too bouncy all of a sudden. Did gravity change? Please adjust the bounce on the river, because I'm stuck way mote than with previous rovers of the same design.

A70%
by A####:

I liked the game but i deleted it because i got mad at 401m my rover glitches and the wheels went into random spots and it got stuck. I was going for 1000m

C70%
by C####:

If you dont move at least 3m in 20 secs youll die And if you want to make a square then pray to god before it because IT JUST DOESNT WORK!!!!

F70%
by F####:

He was copying I won him I DIDN'T WIN HIM!???? BECAUSe HE WAS COPYING ME THIS GAME IS STUPID

T70%
by T####:

The physics are garbage And you can't even control your rover other than using powerups. This is stupid

C70%
by C####:

Used to like this game. Now you rover spends more time bouncing than driving. No fun to play any more.

V70%
by V####:

Love the game I would like new maps and a global multiplayer with like 10 people racing at the same time.

C70%
by C####:

Crappy and has no use of being a game in this world so stop making useless junk

C70%
by C####:

I was clicking design a new rover and it didnt work and it was the first time I had it

C70%
by C####:

This is a game you could wind up spending a lot of time on, it's quite nice. The landscape looks pretty cool and the colour isn't over the top bright and flashy, and the idea of making your own rover is awesome. However there are some issues with the game. With the general idea of the game, It's nice that if you accidentally press the home button it will save your progress, but the rovers go so slow, it takes quite a long time to get anywhere quickly. It would be nice if the next update could include a feature to let the game run in the background of your phone so you could leave and come back in an hour or so. Since I last had the game on my phone maybe a year ago, the latest updates seem to be quite strange and slightly buggy. (1) While driving, I've noticed a few places where rocks have fallen through the map, or when on flat ground the rover will thrust itself backwards a solid 20 meters. This isn't so bad I thought it was sort of funny just that it's a bit buggy. (2) When using the flying power up where the wheels dissapear, they will come back in a different position than you designed sometimes, mostly making the rover undrivable. (3) The new physics are very strange; it feels like you're designing a pogo stick not a rover, as the wheels are a lot more bouncy than before. The rover will be stuck in a spot for a solid 10 seconds just bouncing up and down and doing flips before you get anywhere. It also makes the speed boost power up quite useless, as the rover isn't even touching the ground 3/4 of the time. I don't mind the bouncing so much but it would be better if the power up would propel you forward from something other than the wheels so if you get stuck, you wouldn't just be bouncing twice as high as you were when you were first stuck if the power up is used. Either this, or a way to make the wheels less bouncy like suspension. All in all though, pretty decent game :)

P70%
by P####:

I played this game at the science museum while I was in London and got the daily high score and now I can do it again!!!

C70%
by C####:

I can't connect to the museum game!! I was connected to the same wifi and I was just next to the big screen...

U70%
by U####:

its ok but a bit to simple maybe add in a speed contol and more building matterials also be able to make your own levels

M70%
by M####:

Museum game does not work.

C70%
by C####:

There is no challenge, I made a circle surrounded it with wheels and left for half an hour an still hadn't died, too easy

C70%
by C####:

It was nice but when i hover i get my wheels messing up because i was on a roll at 153 meters (carrot shape is best)

C70%
by C####:

I hated it it was just like I wanted it to be

C70%
by C####:

It glitches out and is terrible

C70%
by C####:

I would give it 5 stars, but the online play didn't work for me.

C70%
by C####:

I can't play with my friend on local network. ONLY THE CPU...

C70%
by C####:

How do u do museum gmaes

C70%
by C####:

Love the game but kinda wish the cpu's rover got randomised

C70%
by C####:

Its fun and show you how to make a simple vehicle stable

C70%
by C####:

New game great except the physics .. the old physics was much better

U70%
by U####:

I got 387m ????

C70%
by C####:

Fully wastage of time

R70%
by R####:

Don't get it.

C70%
by C####:

This game is awesome but the controls are OK


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