Rugged Rovers
Rugged Rovers, from the Science Museum in London, UK, features:
- 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 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
Category : Educational
Reviews (30)
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 😀😀😀
Very fun but controlling the rovers I think will make this the perfect game. Being able to stop it and to get it going again when ever you want. Rather than it just going pedel to the metal 24/7
Can be improved, need to add lots of features and controls... Its just rover making and testing without controls. Need to be funny and intresting.
The lack of a fast forward button is a major drawback. I don't want to play a game that involves fourty forty minutes of sitting and watching after forty seconds of design.
This is a great game. I first saw it when I went to the Science Museum with my 13 year old son. I used to go there when I was a kid but now I live in the USA I can't just hop on a train to get there. When we get home we downloaded this version and we play it together regularly, Good father son bonding. The game is fun. Most recently we got over 1000. It's a shame that you can't connect to the Science Museum screen unless you are in the Museum. My phone had run out of power when we were there so I couldn't play it there. Thanks making it available and maybe you will update it some day.
Super crashy! (the game that is, as well as the rovers) Barely gets past 30m before it freezes irretrievably.
There's several issues like the amount of torque is way too great so the rover just spins. If you use the upwards thrust the wheels rearrange themselves randomly.
I like the artstyle of the game. And the game it's self is creative. Because you're on mars, and you're a land rover racing a real life person or a really good A.I system.
Fun game. Slightly unsure of the mechanics, maybe some over simplification, but great for exploration nonetheless.
This game is really just for the museum. Its not fun as a standalone game like Transmission is with its awful physics and mediocre rover creation.
This was a neat little game but the rovers behave too randomly and bounce around too much. It's cool for what it is but not worth more than a few minutes.
Terrible! This game is amazing, but it wouldn't connect to the Science Museum screen! Don't download for the Science Museum!!!!
V basic an intriguing idea. No updates or year 2017. Game play is actually quite poo. Also game constantly freezes..
Draw a shallow football, use all wheels evenly along top and bottom. Leave phone plugged in for a few days, Boom! Your a record holder. Dont reinstall
Constantly says "connecting to the museum" when I'm stood right next to the exhibit, and nothing happens... Ever
Does not connect to the game in the museum. We are sitting here in front of the screen connected to the Free Science Museum wifi but still nothing.
Pretty cool but while moving when the jets where applied it modified my rovers structure wheels would move.
Buggy buggies! The deformation of the tyre position on usong a noost makes the boost unusable.
Good game, but when you fly, your tires get dislocated. ):
Hoped for more controllability so I could avoid falling backward when going up a slope
It's alright. My rover has a high score of 1500. Maybe make it harder.
I would like this to have a multiplayer and better graphics and physics
It was the best game ever. Now it just crashes when opening...
This is the. Best game ive ever played when i play tjis game for 4 hours like i play games every 4 hours when i play this game for 4 hours my battery is 86 best game!
the games AI just froze then it did not move pls fix it
I used to love this game, now all they do is spin. Needs fixing.
Great game but better at the museum because it was there but still 5 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
This is a very interesting game and very creative.i like it
Improved, but now it crashes.
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.