Rover Mechanic Simulator is slow paced, repetitive simulator where you investigate and repair different rovers on Mars. I wouldn’t recommend you rush out and buy it, and I can’t compare it to others in its series but it was fairly relaxing, the rover models and components are full of facts and the UI is nice and user friendly. If steam had an ok rating I would place this there, this is really for those who are interested in moon/mars rovers, and I can’t say at this point what life skill you would be learning knowing how a rover is put together.

Story
You’re a mechanic on Mars, and select repair jobs as you see fit. Each of the missions has a brief description of what the operator thinks is wrong, and it’s up to you to print replacement parts and repair each rover. There’s no real story as such, but different operators leave different notes and dialogues.

Gameplay
The game is fairly focused in what you can do, though some tasks are simply there to pad time spent in each task. You start off with very minimal resources (money) and need to successfully complete repair jobs to earn more. While everything is simple enough to do, the game has a fair few tutorial missions to make sure you know how each of its major mechanics works before your set free to select from any of the 67 repair jobs.

After selecting a repair job, you have to grab the kit off the truck with the crane, move it to the required workbench, which is where the magic starts. When investigating each rover, you have a dismantle mode, where you remove each component, an assemble mode where you can install fixed or new parts, and an inspection mode, where you can diagnose the health of each part. This can be broken down further, by taking parts to the repair bench, where you can clean them (as dirty parts can’t be analysed until clean), or further dismantle/assemble to get to electronics inside which can be taken to a soldering bench to remove/replace broken parts.

All replacement parts need to be printed from your handy 3D printer, so there’s usually a fair bit of moving between different workbenches before each rover can be fixed. Once everything is repaired, there’s a short mini-game to reprogram everything, and then you can submit for completion which rewards extra resources and experience.

The experience earnt from repairs can be used to increase how quickly you either dismantle/ assemble parts, print replacements, clean dirty parts, solder electronics, analysis or reduce the amount replacement parts cost. There are a few other options, like removing the glitches from the crane camera, or autocompleting the mini games, but the ones that speed you up are the ones worth investing in. you can’t actually fully max your experience trees (there’s a hard level cap), but you get very close and can get all of the important skills from each tree.

Each repair job is divided into 3 categories which the ranking based on how much resources you will have to spend to complete. You really can’t go wrong doing missions, unless you either run out of money, or don’t check if you have completed a mission and try and hand it in. If you are interested, you can play some retro arcade games.

Graphics
The different rover models are quite detailed and have plenty of parts for you to pull apart and investigate. You can get quite deep into each of the rovers (like pulling apart its nuclear engine!) and its nice seeing that when you remove parts that have cables attached the cables are removed from the model as well. The graphics aren’t going to wow you, but the UI is very user friendly, and everything is colour coded once investigated.

Music
There is a radio, and it has I think a few songs from each of its different types of music available, but what you really want to do is dump a bunch of Mp3’s in a folder and listen to your own music. There’s no speech in the game, and the only real sounds are noises from removing screws which you won’t pay attention to.

Achievements
All of the achievements are fairly each to get, however for the 100% you are required to get the DLC. There’s a few hidden ones, but they don’t take much time at all to get.

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Rover Mechanic Simulator is slow paced, repetitive simulator where you investigate and repair different rovers on Mars. I wouldn’t recommend you rush out and buy it, and I can’t compare it to others in its series but it was fairly relaxing, the rover models and components are full of facts and the UI is nice and user friendly. If steam had an ok rating I would place this there, this is really for those who are interested in moon/mars rovers, and I can’t say at this point what life skill you would be learning knowing how a rover is put together. [B]Story[/B] You’re a mechanic on Mars, and select repair jobs as you see fit. Each of the missions has a brief description of what the operator thinks is wrong, and it’s up to you to print replacement parts and repair each rover. There’s no real story as such, but different operators leave different notes and dialogues. [B]Gameplay[/B] The game is fairly focused in what you can do, though some tasks are simply there to pad time spent in each task. You start off with very minimal resources (money) and need to successfully complete repair jobs to earn more. While everything is simple enough to do, the game has a fair few tutorial missions to make sure you know how each of its major mechanics works before your set free to select from any of the 67 repair jobs. After selecting a repair job, you have to grab the kit off the truck with the crane, move it to the required workbench, which is where the magic starts. When investigating each rover, you have a dismantle mode, where you remove each component, an assemble mode where you can install fixed or new parts, and an inspection mode, where you can diagnose the health of each part. This can be broken down further, by taking parts to the repair bench, where you can clean them (as dirty parts can’t be analysed until clean), or further dismantle/assemble to get to electronics inside which can be taken to a soldering bench to remove/replace broken parts. All replacement parts need to be printed from your handy 3D printer, so there’s usually a fair bit of moving between different workbenches before each rover can be fixed. Once everything is repaired, there’s a short mini-game to reprogram everything, and then you can submit for completion which rewards extra resources and experience. The experience earnt from repairs can be used to increase how quickly you either dismantle/ assemble parts, print replacements, clean dirty parts, solder electronics, analysis or reduce the amount replacement parts cost. There are a few other options, like removing the glitches from the crane camera, or autocompleting the mini games, but the ones that speed you up are the ones worth investing in. you can’t actually fully max your experience trees (there’s a hard level cap), but you get very close and can get all of the important skills from each tree. Each repair job is divided into 3 categories which the ranking based on how much resources you will have to spend to complete. You really can’t go wrong doing missions, unless you either run out of money, or don’t check if you have completed a mission and try and hand it in. If you are interested, you can play some retro arcade games. [B]Graphics[/B] The different rover models are quite detailed and have plenty of parts for you to pull apart and investigate. You can get quite deep into each of the rovers (like pulling apart its nuclear engine!) and its nice seeing that when you remove parts that have cables attached the cables are removed from the model as well. The graphics aren’t going to wow you, but the UI is very user friendly, and everything is colour coded once investigated. [B]Music[/B] There is a radio, and it has I think a few songs from each of its different types of music available, but what you really want to do is dump a bunch of Mp3’s in a folder and listen to your own music. There’s no speech in the game, and the only real sounds are noises from removing screws which you won’t pay attention to. [B]Achievements[/B] All of the achievements are fairly each to get, however for the 100% you are required to get the DLC. There’s a few hidden ones, but they don’t take much time at all to get. For more reviews please visit https://gtm.you1.cn/storesteam/curator/31327216/