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Rover Builder

Rover Builder is a 3D engineering sim tasking you to create the right rover to complete the job. Unleash your creativity in the garage, building vehicles using an impressive array of parts, materials and machinery. Or try your hand at level editor - creating entire missions and levels from scratch!

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March 28, 2022
4 years and 128 days ago
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Mixed81 reviews67.9%

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About the Game

Construct Rovers To Overcome Level-Specific Challenges & Puzzles!

Rover Builder is a 3D engineering simulator, tasking you to create and tailor your own rovers to complete each level. The objective is clear - overcome the challenging terrain and hostile environments and get your rover to the green 'completion pad' of every level. Get a three star rating by completing the level in the quickest amount of time!

The creativity is endless..

Build amazing 3D vehicles from simple buggies to trucks, cranes and rocket powered rovers. With an intuitive and unrestricted building mode, construct the rover you need to get the job done. There's multiple expertly crafted parts available to you, the option to create intricate rovers and complex working systems are at your fingertips; steering, hydraulics, suspension systems and propulsion to name a few.

Endless amounts of fun...

Play through over 40 official developer-made levels, with hundreds more made by the community through level editor! Make your own levels and missions for others to play using all of the tools the dev team used to create the official in-game missions. With dozens of tools, features and options available in level editor - unleashing your creativity has never been easier.

Adapt, overcome, succeed!

Cross increasingly difficult terrain, embark on retrieve and return missions, or destroy obstacles and enemies in your way - each mission has its unique challenges you must face and overcome. Build a convoy of rovers to ensure your mission is completed efficiently - or jump into the community garage to see how other players completed them.