RowBot Rally
A downloadable game
Available in Playdate Catalog!
Team up with a mechanical pal and row for the gold in the annual Fish Bowl!
So, you wanna enter the big annual boat-racing competition! It's quite an important event, you know. Alas, evil “RowBots” have torn the whole tourney from the hands of human — (err, animal?) — racers, and the competition's only getting worse. By tandem-rowing with a defective junkyard RowBot of your own, it's your goal to defeat these baddies...but soon you may realize, that these waters go deeper than you thought.
Can you put a stop to the nefarious Robo-X corpo-conglomerate led by the mischievous Shark Boss, put the evil RowBots in their place once and for all, and win back the spirit of the Fish Bowl (and, perhaps more importantly, that big golden trophy)?
With a lengthy story mode across seven stages, loads of hand-animated cutscenes, competitive on-line leaderboards, and more; RowBot Rally is the definitive top-down boat-racing game for Playdate! (...Trust me. It's a competitive field.)
Download
This game is currently unavailable
Download demo
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
I just finished the demo, this game is fantastic. You've completely made a new way to control a racing game and I'm hooked. Can't wait to play the full game whenever it's done. Difficulty curve on the first race is perfect, I struggled for a while but once getting the controls down, it's a blissful experience.
The demo looks great and is super fun! I really struggled the first 2 times I tried racing, because the control scheme is so original and unlike any racing game I've played previously. By the third attempt, I got the hang of it/stopped ramming the wall repeatedly, and RowBot Rally quickly became the playdate release I'm looking forward to the most!
Happy to hear you got the hang of it! If you're keen on using the "feedback" link on this page, I'd love to hear any thoughts you have on the gameplay as a whole — tweaking it to make it easier for the final release is something I really wanna nail down.
Super charming. c:
Good luck! :D
thank you!! <3
When is the final release?
i'm hoping sometime in the next year! perhaps the first half or so? life's been busy atm, you know how it is lol
oh absolutely. I just want to say I appreciate this game. So when it does launch I'd be happy to purchase a copy. 👍
happy to hear the good words! <3 i'll be workin' on it when i can
Looking very good! Nice concept and the entire demo has a professional feel to it. Looking forward to the final release :-)
so glad you enjoyed it!! i'm def lookin forward to it too lol
Defo trying it now! Looks really great!
betcha it plays better than it looks :fire emoji:
I tried it now and successfully completed not only the tutorial but also the first mission, give me moooooore!!!
i'll try!! 💖
Cannot wait to play this! Looks super super fun, and has an amazing artstyle!
reported. no amphibians allowed /j
Absolutely loving the visual design for this itch page! Amazing work, both on that and on the game itself so far. Can't wait to play it. :)
thank you so much!! i can't wait to see what people think of it once it's out ✨