Hackerspace NTNUJun 5, 2024Free to playView on Steam ↗

Red Planet Rampage

A build-your-own-gun FPS! Play online, splitscreen or vs. AI in this goofy party game with over 600 unique weapons! Outbid your opponents and assemble the wildest weapon on Mars!

Action Indie Early Access Shooter Comedy Sci-fi Local Multiplayer First-Person

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Estimated lifetime revenue

Free-to-play

Revenue comes from in-game items and microtransactions, which our price-based model doesn't estimate. The player count below is how many people own it, not what they spent.

Est. players

1.8K

people who own it

Reviews

Review score

91%

9.1/10

Concurrent players

read Sep 17, 2026, 15:00 UTC

Followers

About

About the game

Red Planet Rampage is a dieselpunk western-themed arena shooter where robots face off on Mars with wacky modular guns. Win gun parts in auctions and assemble a unique combination among hundreds of possible weapons!

The game is developed by volunteers at Hackerspace NTNU and is free and open source!

Lore

The robots responsible for terraforming Mars have donned cowboy hats and started wreaking havoc with staged shootouts and competitions where they auction off rudimentary weapon parts assembled from scrap. Terraforming Inc. is still investigating the cause of this disturbance, but rumors point to a fateful upload of a western film.

Features

Modular weapons with wildly different parts; over 500 different combinations
Auctions where players bid on these weapon parts
Splitscreen and online multiplayer
Fast-paced movement with rewarding tech

Weapons

Reload by playing a rhythm minigame or shaking a soda can
Shoot bouncing cowboy hats
Mount a frying pan at the end of your gun as a makeshift shield
Slay your enemies in one hit with a rubber barrel that wiggles uncontrollably
and more!

Genres

More genres & tags

3D FPS

Player reviews (41)

Not recommended4h playedMar 2026

[quote][b]Note: Dead PvP game[/b] This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.[/quote] "Red Planet Rampage" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from Hackerspace NTNU in Scandinavia. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" games, we must still question what value they have for gamers. This isn't a fully fleshed out game. It's the result of an academic exercise and has much more limited value than a professionally developed game. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments. It helps their marketing and makes students feel good, but it puts the business before the needs of gamers. The students made a rather pointless and dead-on-arrival "westernpunk" low poly arena shooter, a barely detectable drop in the ocean of "PvP exclusive" games in a massively oversaturated market. Offering nothing new or interesting, it died immediately. The students haven't touched this for 3 months, it's likely they've already walked away from it, leaving abandoned Early Access junk, a dead, unfinished and unwanted PvP arena shooter on Steam, to pollute the place and make it harder for people to find genuinely, professionally developed games. In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D graphics which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. It would be unethical for students to try charge money for their homework assignments, so you don't have to pay any money for this. But you'd still have to spend your time downloading this, and "time is money", as they say. There's the other problem, too... as a student project, this wasn't made for gamers. There's no requirement for them to polish and balance the game properly, all they need is something to show the faculty so they can get their grade and move on. Let's once more ask... why is that good for gamers? It's obviously not delivering a solid product. Yet here it is, on the store page, and here you are, reading my review for a student demo that's going to waste your time. While genuine amateur developers who made real products get ignored because they have to compete with this stuff. In some ways, this deluge of student projects on Steam is harmful to everyone. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 8 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free student project won't count toward your game collection or add any achievements, and because it's not really a full game and more of a homework assignment, it's not a worthwhile download.