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Rugged Rovers – Education Game Review
Rugged Rovers is a Education/Family game from SCMG Enterprises Limited, first launched in 12th December 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 30+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Rugged Rovers Stand Out
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
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Rugged Rovers is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th March 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Now you can RACE AGAINST FRIENDS in your network!
New HIGH SCORES and ACHIEVEMENTS!
Download & Availability
Rugged Rovers is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Rugged Rovers on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Awesome game we just couldnt get off of it at the Franklin Institute! People should put it on. However, the CPU copied our rover that went 200m.
Played this at the Franklin Institute and was addicted.
You should be able to save rover designs.
Our cousin showed us this app and is very fun There are endless possibilities for building a vehicles we would like it if more 'ghost players' appeared Because only 1 or 2 appear on screen.
We love this game. It's currently one of our favorites for sure. It's an addicting, strategic fun game. The only suggestion we have is to not make the power ups take such a long time to recharge.
We love playing this game so much! It's fun to try and make a better creation so you can try and win the race.
Really fun game but it can be better It can give you a log of your races and personal records we think it make the app more professional.
We LIKE CAMERA ONLY ON MY CAR! DO IT PLEASE.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.1
- Size: 162.12 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: SCMG Enterprises Limited
Last updated: 20th March 2017 | Genre: Education, Family | Developer: SCMG Enterprises Limited