Red Rover
Alan Chan · 2018 · Simulation, Automobile Sim, VR, Driving, Mars
PC
Mostly Positive71% · 17
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About Red Rover
MARS, IRL! (sort of)
When I was a kid, there was an unspoken assumption that when I grew up we would be living in space, working on the moon, and exploring Mars, etcetera etcetera..
Well, I grew up. Worked on some pretty cool feature film and game projects, but the space exploration part never quite took off.. So I figured it was time to create my own 'space program'.
Red Rover takes satellite and terrain data from NASA's HiRISE Mars orbiter and incorporates it into a driving simulator. I'm taking my decades of movie magic experience and putting it towards making something that lets me virtually experience the real planet Mars (subject to current technological and VR limitations, of course)
Red Rover started as a personal research project a few years ago - because I wanted to explore Mars. I'm now making this available on Steam so that like-minded explorers can get to explore Mars as well! No missions to do, no highscores to beat, just nine curated Mars datasets - roughly about 5km x 5km in size each - for you to explore. I hope to add more maps as time permits and new satellite data is released!
Red Rover supports Oculus Rift VR, but will also run in non-VR mode.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Red Rover pros: fast game with modern day graphics with easy controls that moves from location A to B to C and so on, cons: gameplay becomes uninteresting after a few minutes. looks abandoned. good game. Personal Suggested Purchase Price: NA (Free To Play) Free Weekend 3-3-2021 to 3-5-20212 found this helpful
The only part of this game that's fun is bouncing planet balls around in the training area. The game does get honorable mention for making me VR-sick faster than anything else I've played. Re-release this, and let us roll the planet balls around on Mars, Rocket-League-style.1 found this helpful
Its a driving in mars simulation. Locations are somewhat accurate as they are taken from real maps. The driving is not bad, but in the end there is not much to do. You can turn the time like night and day, and run around... but thats it. No objectives whatsoever. After a few minutes running and jumping around, you see that there is nothing but a barren planet.1 found this helpful
Broke game.
I bought this during the Steam Summer Sale. It's a truly great stress reliever. Better than benzodiazepines. Works fine with a monitor or my Oculus Rift S. I like to roll out of bed in the morning, immediately plug in my Logitech F310, and go bounding across Mars, viciously abusing several million dollars worth of taxpayer-purchased NASA equipment. I own just about every NASA and/or Mars-related title on Steam. This has excellent Mars maps. I just wish that Alan would eventually stitch them all together and create the entire planet for free roaming. No borders. The whole enchilada. If you really want to drop your stress levels fast, like installing an NOS system on your big block Chevy, I recommend singing the theme song from, "The Patty Duke Show" at the top of your lungs while bounding about in your rover on Mars in Red Rover. It's cathartic. Where Cathy adores a minuet, The Ballet Russes and Crepes Suzette, Our Patty loves to rock and roll, A hot dog makes her lose control. What a wild duet! Still they're cousins, Identical cousins, and you'll find, They laugh alike, They walk alike, At times they even talk alike, You can lose your mind, When cousins are two of a kind! Thr…
Great for kids! Visit Victoria Crater and drive Oppy! Thoughts for additional or community content: 1. Add option to add/remove fictional content: e.g. remove crates. 2. More maps using HiRISE data. 3. Using the above, recreate Mark Watney's journey.
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