Rovercraft 2 Reviews

I see around 15 parts I haven’t collected but after opening over 100 crates I haven’t received a single new part in the longest time I’m starting to think you can only get them with by spending money but that doesn’t make much sense because a lot of those parts I don’t have are not in any bundles/deals you can purchase lalso why getting the flag over is extremely annoying it’s a part that is max lvl from the first one you get and you have the chance to get it over and over taking up parts for others also why is the star pass capped at 205 stars when you can only get 201 stars capped with current levels I don’t get it….I love this game but it needs some variety I beat the game all levels but still missing so many parts and that’s experience lost content I didn’t get to play no matter how long I play I can’t access these parts it’s very frustrating

I’m actually pretty disappointed, the first game was kind of like a spin off of hill climb racing but the difference was that you could build your own car. I really liked that twist and it added a lot of diversity to an already simple and fun game, but with the second game it’s really a let down and I don’t really know if I should have expected different. This game has no personality to me because it just feels like a huge cash grab.

For starters the batteries don’t last more than 10 seconds and based off of other reviews I’ve read you can even really go back and play missions to get coins the level them up, which brings me to my next problem, why is everything so hard to get without spending money? I hated when I got the game downloaded and the first thing I see is a battle pass and supply drops which seem to be the only way you can even make progress in this game.

Overall the game definitely has better graphics and physics etc. but the actual gameplay is horrendous and every single time you go to retry a mission you have to watch an ad. A really long ad, nobody wants to sit and play ad watching simulator, and nobody wants to play a game where most progression comes through micro transactions.

You can’t just download this and in a couple days expect to have enough cards to get through some levels. BIG TIP FOR THE ICE LEVEL- use the flag to break the ice. I managed to play the whole way through without the icebreaker. As for the level that is underground. It is nearly impossible to finish 8 without three regular batteries. This is messed up. The charge should hold up better. I have two of each battery and can not pass the 8th level in Karen’s after over 8 hours of playing this level with a good amount of skill. It’s just impossible. Also watching the ad to start from a checkpoint is often BROKEN. Please fix this. I watch an ad and expect to start from a checkpoint and once the game resumes it says “driver down”. What was the point of me watching the ad, to then see my driver dies immediately before I can move. Please fix this devs. I will not make any purchases in this game until these random loot boxes are at least 1 USD, per box. 3 USD is too high for me to gamble with. 3 items randomly for 3 USD, and I have 22 items. There is no value here. What I need is battery cards that’s it. Why not let me buy that and that only? I can’t watch videos for gems. And no more free gems to unlock with progression through XP. It feels like a cash grab honestly. And I refuse to gamble on what’s currently offered. I guess I’ll go from spending hours playing to just 3-4 times a day when the deliveries pop up. Really kind of sad.

Too much grinding involved. The first RoverCraft is way more fun. After playing for one day you will be stuck on a mission waiting for RNG to unlock the upgrade you need to continue progress. I still play but only cargo delivery missions to unlock upgrades. Which is one mission every 5hrs. So far it’s been a month and still waiting to upgrade my batteries to be able to progress in the game. The first game is better. In this version there is no win scenario on each planet. You just run til you are out of battery power. And each planet feels the same. No sense of accomplishment upon completing a difficult planet like in the first. You can’t even pick the planet here you want to explore. The first week of playing I thought this was a bug. It’s not. The planets are on a timer. Should of kept the same formula as the 1st game. Just add new tools/physics/locations/graphics/etc and you would’ve had a killer game. Not this paywall-grinding mess.

I enjoy this game, I really do. But some things about it really grinds my gears.

The whole parts system is VERY annoying. You hardly ever get parts for what you actually need from boxes (specifically battery parts), and there's no way to get specific ones, besides parts from events. For some players it completely halts progress. And since you can only do so much every day, it's VERY tedious. Oh yeah, and the crate prices. Nobody smart enough is gonna pay that much for just ONE BOX you can sometimes get through delivery missions. Maybe three or five for that price would be acceptable.

Also, some of the levels. The difficulty is pretty inconsistent (it might just be me). Some levels you can do in 1-3 tries, others will challenge you, which is good. But one in particular though, Marena 8, is straight up impossible. I've tried hundreds of times, still not getting to the end. There are multiple parts of the level that require different setups to actually get past. Like near the end of the 2nd section, where it drops, and there's an upwards slope at the bottom. Almost every time I flip over, ending my run. I just really hate this level and it makes me want to quit. But I'm not though, because I want to enjoy the rest of the game. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, I don't know.

Doubt anything will happen, but thanks anyway for reading.

Rovercraft 2 has a much better physics engine than rovercraft 1 making it a blast to play and along with a offer variety of parts to play around with, makes have much more depth than the original. However, the new parts system and linear level system is the major underlying problem with the game. The game starts off fine, with the game giving you an ample amount of parts to upgrade your rovers batteries and wheels, but you start slowing down once you reach the second planet until you eventually hit a level where it simply impossible to finishes as you don’t have good enough batteries to hold energy or enough power in the wheel to climb a hill etc. If this was rovercraft 1, you would just need to go back to a level you can finish to grind more coins to upgrade your parts but in rovercraft 2 you can’t go back. So what’s the only way to upgrade your parts? Deliveries. Deliveries that you wait for in real time ranging from 3-7 hours until you get a new delivery. There needs to be an easier way to get part upgrades that aren’t just a waiting game. I understand the devs want the players to buy crates for real money but it’s going to be hard to reel in new players for buy these crates when new players cant even see the bulk of the content in the game. So unless this system changes, my rating stays at a 2. I would rate it 1 but the improved mechanics in this sequel warrant acknowledgement.

The treads are to OP and make the other wheels feel useless especially on the later planets. Better traction, acceleration, and power, every other wheel pales in comparison. It was fine in the earlier levels but now i cant live without it, if the treads didnt exist i probably would have gotten nearly as far as i have. It went from me using several types of wheels coherently to pass a course to where is the best place to but my treads. I put the treads in the back and the other wheels cant pull me over a hill, i put the treads in the front and my wheels dont have enough muscle to even push me over. Please buff the other wheels so they can feel useful again instead of feeling like tread optimizing simulator

Another pay to win game that is purposefully designed broken to get you to spend money to play or progress. The part system is abysmal. Multiple players have complained about it and the devs don’t want it fixed. The levels get to the point where you need certain parts to progress, but cannot possibly have with the amount of parts drops given through the campaign missions. Your only options? Play delivery mode once every 5 hours and hope and pray you get the part you need or spend countless amounts of money on gems for loot boxes that may or may not have the parts you need in hopes to progress. No option to spam ads for boxes or earn upgrades in other ways. And the devs don’t care. Go through the reviews. Player after player has complained about this since the time this game has been released. Would easily be fixed by an update and they refuse. Don’t waste your time. Just delete and move on.

Unlike “Rovercraft,” where you have freedom to “craft,” that is not the case with this game. Missions is basically the whole game, but you cannot win enough to upgrade or get new parts. You have to buy boxes from the store, which only give you exp for parts you already have, and a chance to win a new fixed part, not random. There is 1 chance to get a part per stage, and it’s from sending cargo.. but you can only do it 1 time, not repeatable. The other mode is basically endurance, with no rewards. Even the missions are nonsense, because they try to give you an “extra” load to carry on every mission, that is shaped differently on every mission, you have to build around it. AND.. I find that parts are more fragile and damage prone. The game physics are basically the same, nothing to complain about there. But I would NOT recommend this to anyone else to waste their time thinking it’s just like Rovercraft or a part 2.. i would still play Rovercraft 1. In fact I would download and play pong first. A severe lack of content in the game as well missions, there’s only like 4 stages with about 8 missions each.. really not worth wasting your time, stick with Rovercraft 1, more fun, more freedom, more parts, more things to do.

This game is fun. Until you hit a wall. Whether it’s the giant ice spike on the last ice planet level or the insane distance to travel to the finish line from the last battery on the underground planet, you’ll eventually say “if I just had ____, I could keep playing.”

It’s crazy I can get to a point where I just can’t do anything in the game. I have to wait until the next delivery comes around so I can hopefully come up with an ice breaker or a battery upgrade.

I really enjoy the improvements the devs have made from the last game. But what happened to the challenges, the free roam that actually worked, the ability to replay levels for coins and upgrades? I want to keep playing the game! At least give us an option to watch an ad to reduce the time to the next delivery

I am SO glad RoverCraft is back again. It was by far one of my favorite apps. The sequel is just as amazing, I just think it needs a few tweaks. Parts and part upgrades are much much harder to obtain. The daily cargo thing doesn’t give many rewards, and the cooldown is multiple multiple hours. If you get stuck on a story mode mission, you have to wait for the reset on the cargo run, and then HOPE it gives you upgrade parts for something you need. If it doesn’t? Wait many long hours again and hope it does next time.

I also very much miss the ability to replay levels. I reaaaally wish that would come back. Even for half or quarter of the rewards. I just want something to do other than the same story mission I’ve been stuck on for a day.

Otherwise? Still a great game. The physics are nice and the gameplay is smooth. A little lag with the throttle control, but nothing major.

My only complaint or suggestion would revolve around part acquisition.

EDIT : new found issue. 9 times out of 10 when I watch an ad to revive at a checkpoint, I immediately die again at the checkpoint and I’m forced to the menu.

Like others, I was excited to play this since I loved the first one. I’ve been playing for a while now, and I’m now stuck on the ice planet as I don’t have the right parts to break through ice. I’m ok with how the new parts are obtained, but I think it would be better if essential items were gifted when the new planet is unlocked. I want to keep playing, but I’m literally stuck in the campaign, and I have to wait several hours for the delivery mission cooldown, which is a little disappointing. The other mode only grants coins, which doesn’t really help me at this point because I already have more than enough saved. If there was another way to obtain new parts (without having to buy chests), I think it would greatly improve the gameplay so I’m not forced to sit around waiting to *hopefully* get the part(s) I need in the next delivery mission.

I'm a HUGE fan of the Rovercraft series--I love the engineering challenge of building a vehicle that will go the distance. Unfortunately, however, this sequel is not as good as the original for two reasons. The first is due to the batteries. Whereas in the first game you could get pretty great batteries, this game gives you lots of crappy ones, so your vehicles end up being made almost entirely of batteries, leaving much less room for creativity. The second reason is replay value--you could always go back and play completed levels in the first game with your new/upgraded parts which made those levels fun to play again. This sequel never allows you to just go back to an earlier level in the game, and once you beat the campaign, you just get these interminably long "exploration" levels that you can never beat, and mind-numbingly boring "delivery" mini-games to try to unlock new parts.

Don't get me wrong--I still play the game a lot--I just wish there were better batteries and more stuff to do after you beat the campaign.

Great game, lots of fun, but also extremely frustrating due to some serious flaws that could have been easily avoided. There are a few later end-of-area levels that are difficult to the point of no longer being fun, requiring almost endless attempts to not flip your rover over. They’re clearly there to try to get players to spend money on upgrades, but ultimately they just end up being so frustrating to pass that I think most players will be best served to just consider throwing the game away once they get stuck there (Marena 15, Toxipie 15, Icelli 14). There’s also a pretty bad interface associated with repairing long rovers with the repair box, in which it is largely impossible to repair the rear components because one of the exit buttons will overlap many of the rear parts. This could easily be fixed, but hasn’t been for years. Ultimately the game is also too short, which seems just lazy, it couldn’t be that hard to make another couple of sets of maps and come up with more tasks. Overall, you’ll probably either end up stuck on the levels listed or you will play through the whole thing fairly quickly and wonder why there’s so little content. Good game, but this could have been great.

I love RoverCraft, I’ve played the first one for years! The second one is also great, but I don’t like that I have to wait for an upgrade to complete a level, I’ve been on level 8 marena for a couple weeks now because I don’t have enough battery. I’ve even tried completing it with only two tires to reduce consumption and still don’t have enough battery to make it to the next one. I would much rather be able to replay past levels to get upgrades that wasn’t awarded at the time, that would possibly help with the next levels or just be able to buy upgrades like RoverCraft 1. Overall I love the concept of the second one but it becomes very easy to get stuck on a level and not be able to progress.

So I downloaded this roughly a month ago, and I absolutely loved the original, In fact I still play it sometimes. However there are some drawbacks.

Firstly, the upgrade system is somewhat complicated. You have to unlock a part, then unlock upgrade keys and hope said part is in the upgrade box, so which you have to collect so many points to upgrade. Which is far easier when playing the infinity race.

Some of the levels are too easy, while others I’ve played for a week to finish! But I have to say, the fun is in the challenge!

But the biggest downside for me, is that I can’t go further than 4K meters before the game crashes and closes out! Meaning if I’m playing the infinity race, and made a lot of progress, then BOOM* all gone.

Now for some more good! Like I said before the game can be super challenging, but half the fun is discovering the best way to build your machine, to fit the track and your driving style. Which has kept me hooked to the game! Along with carrying different types of cargo, making you hone your skills more and more. And it’s the challenging transports like these that really make the game worth playing! So I’d say, all in all, I’d give the game a solid 8/10!

Give me an icebreaker and I’ll update the review to 5 stars. Lol seriously though, I literally can’t get past the 7th mission of the ice level. Right when I think, alright now I have to be nearing the end, more ice. Patience is definitely required here but I can’t help but feel like I’ve hit I wall (literally) that I can’t get past unless I pay up and buy boxes and pray to the lord all mighty there’s an icebreaker in one of them boxes because otherwise good luck with level 7 of the ice world. It’ll literally make you wanna take everything you hold most dear in the world and throw it all out of the window. But other than level 7 of the ice world (which I’m still stuck on) yea the game is pretty fun.

(Edit): I just beat level 7, and got the icebreaker finally. Here’s the five stars I promised ya.

It takes time to unlock the items you need cause it’s chance based which is a bit frustrating but not a total deal breaker. It is still a great improvement from the first game. I am currently on the ice world without an icebreaker and let me tell you... certain items should be unlocked such as the icebreaker after the first mission. But I guess that’s another part of this game I love, rebuilding and trying again even if I’m on the verge of rage lol. Last thing. Cargo deliveries are a nice addition and keeps the game from being a total bust, cause when you are at a stand still you get a chance to unlock something to aid you. Thank you guys for a game worth playing and not having to pay to get anywhere!

To reiterate, this is one of the funnest games ever. It just needs more content. (Hill climb 2 is the direction this game should go)
I see a lot of negative feedback about the batteries, which is why I wanted to rewrite my review. You are playing a free game guys! A game that would have cost $50-$60 back in the glory days of 2D Nintendo or PlayStation games.
This game can be played through to the last level, but it will take about 3 months of playing every six hours... or you can give them some money to get through the game faster. These guys deserve every penny they get! Please support these guys and this game!
I can’t wait to see more levels and more... whatever they come up with!

I played the older one so I had high hopes for this one and I wasn’t let down at all. Next time y’all work on another game like this you should try a PVP version or a race version for an online experience. With a race you can design a few maps with different routes which would be better then making multiple anyway. Saves money right? Wouldn’t even have to make a race in real time, you already have the ghost high score!