Rugged Rovers

Name: Rugged Rovers
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.2727272510528564 (13677 reviews)
Author: Science Museum Group

Science Museum Group

3.3

13.7K reviews

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Expert Approved

PEGI 3

About this game

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?

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

Updated on

28 Aug 2024

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Ratings and reviews

3.1

11.5K reviews

A Google user

3 August 2019

This game is very addictive, making yourself constantly wanting to beat your last score. Nice simple graphics and ease of use. Why only 3 stars? Because it's missing the option of racing against friends in real time like at the Science Museum. You only race against their ghost and only one of them at a time. There should be an option to play over Chromecast with the whole family. Another issue is when designing your rover, the buttons are in the way so it's difficult to utilise the whole screen.

19 people found this review helpful

zen master

6 March 2025

Great game, but as a lot of other reviewers have pointed out this game is missing a few practical features. This isn't such a big issue though as the main one is that it keeps crashing every time my score looks decent and so it never gets saved.

1 person found this review helpful

A Google user

11 September 2019

Rugged Rovers is a great game. Very creative, and fun to play with your family and friends. But I've discovered this glitch; if you trace around the motor, the cover your rover in the biggest wheels possible it will go much faster than ordinary rovers and will become bouncy. But on the whole I think this game is great 😀😀😀

25 people found this review helpful