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Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Ensure the moon is safe for humanity’s lunar settlement! Explore the moon as a Lunar Rover and interact with crashed ships, natural resources, and the nearby landmarks to determine if humans can live here!
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Indie, Simulation, Casual · 2025 · More under £5 games
Embark on a casual journey as a Lunar Rover in Roving Rovers - Australian Rover Challenge 2026, where your task is to ensure the moon is safe for humanity by interacting with crashed ships and natural resources.
About this game
Welcome to the Moon, Space Cadet!
Roving Rovers is a cozy exploration and resource management game where you pilot your very own lunar rover! With humanity's arrival on the horizon, you have to explore the moon's surface to find useful resources to ensure the moon is fit for human inhabitants.
You will traverse across imported scans of the moon's surface, meaning the craters, rocks and ridges that you drive over are based on a genuine lunar landscape.
Customisable Rovers
Travel across the moon in style, and own it! Your little rover is customisable, so make it your own to suit your taste.
Resource Management
You’ll need to collect and gather resources while exploring and completing missions. Every resource brings you one step closer to figuring out if the moon is going to be humanity's new home!
Exploration Is Key
Enjoy the Lunar landscape, and sink into the cosmic environment as you explore! Don’t leave any stone unturned, or any crater overlooked, important resources or information could be waiting for you!
Feature Summary:
Deep resource management systems that reward planning and exploration
A customisable rover; parts, paint, and personality!
Satisfying collecting and gathering resources loops
Open-ended exploration across a vast lunar map
And more!
Roving Rovers started as a replica of the internationally recognised Australian Rover Challenge, enabling players to understand the complexities of the lunar and otherworldly rover missions. Developed with the support of The Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources, University of Adelaide and Flinders university, it is based in the realities of the space industry.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7+
- Processor: Quad core or higher
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel Integrated Graphics 4000
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Quad core or higher
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidea Gefore 960
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Update Notes, 24/06/2026
- Collectibles added - Achievements added - Improved automated rover navigation - Improved management of rovers and sites - Updated UX for Rover Designer - Updated UX for inventories and processor structures - Updated side quests - Made checkpoints work as intended - Myriad bugs fixed, reintroduced and then fixed againRead full article on Community Announcements (forg)Patch NotesOfficial
Update Notes for 27/05/2026
A multitude of bug fixes and QoL improvements that should help with playing through the game.Read full article on Community Announcements (forg)AnnouncementsOfficial
Updates to game and pricing structure
As we've kept working on Roving Rovers since the initial release in 2023 we're ready for a major update and release.Coming next week on the 13th of May you can expect a massive update including:Reworking the entire campaign for ease of playabilityUpdated narrative and voice over for the entire campaignAdded local co-op for up to 4 playerFixed a multitude of bugs and issuesMany QoL changesAs part of this update, we are also moving Roving Rovers from a free product to a paid product with a small (~$5) price tag attatched.Anyone who has already claimed the game before this change will still keep a copy of the updated version, and anyone who adds it to their account in the next week will also receive further updates for free.Looking to the longer future, we plan on continuing to support Roving Rovers, and building out the campaign into a much larger game once we have all the mechanics perfected.Thanks for playing,The Mini Mammoth TeamRead full article on Community Announcements (MiniMammoth)AnnouncementsOfficial
Australian Rover Challenge 2025
Watch the 2025 Australian Rover challenge online! Every March, university robotics teams from Australia and around the world descend on Adelaide to compete in the Australian Rover Challenge (ARCh). Founded in 2021 by the University of Adelaide’s Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources (ATCSR), this Australian-based robotics competition sees tertiary student teams design and build semi-autonomous teleoperated rovers and test them against a range of operational scenarios set on the lunar surface. Now in its fifth year, the competition is bigger than ever before, attracting teams from all around the world and reinforcing the desire students have to address the challenges faced in returning humans to the Moon and eventually on to Mars. The concept for Roving Rovers is based on this very challenge. Each year, we work with ATCSR/Adelaide Uni on an updated version of Roving Rovers, pitting players against the very same scenarios featured in the rover challenge.Read full article on Community Announcements (MiniMammoth)
