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Rover Builder cover art

Rover Builder

Hatfuls Games · PQube · 2022-03-28

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Sep 14, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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!

Rover Builder is a 2022 Indie, Simulation and Strategy game priced at $9.99, with Mixed sentiment (68% of 81 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
68%
positive of 81 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 56% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 49,602 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 81 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2025-09-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420172026Week of 2017-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.792017-09-152026-08-132017-09-15 — best price $8.992017-11-01 — best price $9.992018-02-15 — best price $4.992018-04-30 — best price $9.992018-08-29 — best price $3.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-12-20 — best price $2.992019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $3.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-06-25 — best price $4.992021-04-28 — best price $9.992021-08-13 — best price $6.992021-11-24 — best price $6.492022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-03-28 — best price $8.992022-05-16 — best price $9.992022-09-08 — best price $7.492022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-02-01 — best price $6.692023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-06-30 — best price $6.492023-09-28 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $4.992024-03-04 — best price $9.992024-04-18 — best price $3.992024-06-05 — best price $9.992024-08-26 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-02-17 — best price $1.492025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $0.992025-09-01 — best price $9.992025-11-24 — best price $2.492026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-05-16 — best price $9.992026-07-30 — best price $2.492026-08-13 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
37.5%
earned "Baby steps"
9.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

3DMarsIndieSpaceRobotsPhysicsSandboxScienceBuildingStrategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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