Critter Rover Dash
Drift · Skim · Win
The game loads when you press play.
- Free
- No ads
- No account needed
- No install — plays in your browser
About the game
Pick a baby critter, fire up the hover rover and race across meadow, castle and coast: skim the water, keep the cream topped up, take the Critter Cup.
Critter Rover Dash is an original hover racer, seen from behind the rover. Choose one of eight baby critters — a panda, a red panda, a fox, a bunny, a pig, a raccoon, a squirrel or a duck — and the other three on the grid are drawn at random from the rest.
Because the rover hovers, it carries momentum sideways: corners are taken on the drift, and water is quick but offers no grip at all. Every circuit is crossed by water — the mill stream, the castle moat, a tidal shallows with a lagoon shortcut on the inside of the last corner. The circuits climb and drop too, so a crest taken flat out launches you.
Cream is fuel. Thrust burns it, and an empty tank leaves you crawling until you find a can. Paw boxes hand out a cream dash, an acorn missile, a sticky burr (it sinks if you drop it in the water) or a leaf shield. A track editor lets you place the pickups yourself.
Plays entirely offline, in eleven languages, with touch, keyboard or gamepad.
How to play
- Pick your critter, fire up the rover, skim the stream and take the Critter Cup.
- Cream is fuel. Thrust burns it; an empty tank leaves you crawling.
- Water is fast but slippery. Grass is just slow.
- Gold paw pads boost you. Paw boxes give you an item.
- Change the view with the camera button, C or V, or a pad's View button or D-pad up: chase, cockpit or far chase.
- Hold thrust the moment it says GO
Controls
| Touch | Touch: your left thumb steers, sliding left or right. Your right thumb is the throttle: push up to go, pull down to brake, and past halfway to drift. Let go and the rover keeps driving and helps you follow the road. |
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| Mouse | Click through the menus, and click the road in the Track Editor to place a pickup or remove one. |
| Keyboard | ↑ or W thrusts, ← → or A D steer, ↓ or S brakes, X or Ctrl power-slides, Shift hops, Space uses your item, C or V changes the camera view; P or Esc pauses. |
| Gamepad | left stick steers, RT thrusts, LT eases off, A uses an item, B hops. |
