Rush Rover
Fair · Roguelike · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.8h 1.5h to 100%
- Value
- $6.24/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 222 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Rush Rover is a 2D top-down shooter game. Compared to other similar games of the genre, the shooting experience is closer to traditional shoot'em up games. It includes random map generation, unique weapons, lots of different enemies, exciting boss battles and a dynamic chiptune soundtrack.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256mb, 256 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
61 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Star of Providence ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).
The drop-off
75% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Twin stick rush shooter that is not too long, not too hard, and not too much bullet hell. To fully complete the game will take considerable effort but it's possible and satisfying to pick up and play the game, and with a bit of luck to complete the "base" run. Luck plays a role in Rush Rover. There are some upgrades that make chances of success considerably higher, but alas drops are random and some times you feel...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Wow... this game is a surprise. I'm only just beginning this, but this is a solid roguelike twin stick shmup. It's always in hardcore/permadeath mode and always at the same difficulty, so I do wish it was more flexible that way. There does appear to be a progressive RPG aspect to the game though in that you can delete your saved data, which begs the question of what that data must contain. I have noticed that I'm...
can't recommend the game due to crashes, when the rover is good equied and you expect a good run. while some weapons are usefull in certain situations, others are completely useless. so the idea of this game is nice, but the implementation is poorly done. developer seems to don't take care for the game anymore. it's sad, because the game could be fun to play, if the bugs would be fixed.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Rush Rover scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/438320/rush-roverReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.