Rival Rebels

5 humans and one cat holding an assortment of tools, supplies, armor, and weapons.

Open World Multiplayer

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Rival Rebels® Game (Alpha)

Rival Rebels is a huge multiplayer sandbox set on endless maps. The game is highly experimental, centered on player freedom, modularity and efficiency. Build a base, drop nukes, or pilot ships without transitions. The gameplay is very customizable. We are crowdfunding the development of this game by selling Funder Editions, which grant you early access and special content. The game runs on Windows and Mac, with Linux support on the way.

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An armored soldier with a helmet holding a plasma cannon and wearing an agile warsuit with a rack. The rack has a Shaper building tool and an Ein-Sten loaded on it.

Rack Your Tools and Weapons

After customizing your player, you should rack your tools and weapons. Sorry, there's no hammerspace (infinite pockets), but you can transport and recharge 3 weapons or tools on your back, like the Shaper building tool or the Ein-Sten minigun. You can also take two small tools on your belt, like the Pliers and Airbrush. Weapons and tools can be held in either hand.

A blue haired man with purple armor holding a plasma cannon in each hand

Dual Wield and do the Neo

Hold two weapons at a time, and control them independently with the left and right mouse buttons. You can also point them in different directions by using the Neo ability, which separates the weapons with the scroll wheel to enable lateral shooting.

Plasma Cannon

Charge-up energy blaster. One handed medium weapon. Modular: ammo matrix, accelerator, energy cell, one battery, and one handle.

Ein-Sten minigun

Rapid fire rotary cannon. Two handed heavy energy weapon. Modular: ammo matrix, accelerator, two energy cells, two batteries, and two handles.

A matte green laser minigun with rotating barrel and a glowing red section underneath.

Shaper Tool

Your one-stop shop for all your building needs. Two handed heavy tool. Modular: six concrete foam canister carousel, one battery, and two handles.

A large cylindrical bright yellow tool composed of several sections, with a revolving hexagonal-packed 6 foam canister magazine, two handles, and a battery.

Pliers Tool

Repairing, connecting & assembling tool for all modular systems. Works with vehicles, nukes, weapons, and machines. You can mix and match different weapon parts together. The resulting weapon behavior is often unpredictable.

A pair of shiny metallic pliers with smooth blue plastic coated handles.

Airbrush Tool

This paint gun lets you access the virtual paint shop and decal customizer system. Modular: one battery and one handle.

A small one handle bright yellow tool with three cartridges at the top.

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Bubbly orange nuclear mushroom cloud, with a ring of light expanding from its base.

Damage and Destroy

The game’s damage mechanism also works at a modular level for each part, detaching and deforming the 3D models, scorching and breaking them on impact. Map structures get carved and burnt. The kiloton yield to radius is based on real data.

A blue and red armored and helmetted person holding a large fuse as wide as their chest with both arms.

Nuke Tech

Play with nuke technology! Attach the fuse and load nuclear element rods into the Tactical Nukes, including the EMP nuke. Arm them, set timers, and watch the show (preferably from far away). You can also drop nukes from your Corsaire 3 gunship, or crash your Nuke Bike.

Hand Nuke

1kt hand held nuclear demolition device. Built-in fuse box and 2 nuclear rod slots.

A dark gray device with a handle at the top, several orange ribbon cables, an antenna, and a display showing the number 0:15

Tactical 1 EMP

2kt nuclear electromagnetic pulse device. Modular fuse and 4 nuclear rod slots.

A bluish gray device with a red and a cyan light on its front, a fuse, 4 rod slots, and 2 bright rings around either end.

Tactical 2

4kt nuclear device. Modular fuse and 8 nuclear rod slots.

A long yellow device with a red and a cyan light on its front, a fuse, 8 rod slots, and 2 dark rings around either end.

Tactical 3 (Nucchini)

6kt nuclear device. Modular fuse and 12 nuclear rod slots.

A very long green device with a red and a cyan light on its front, a fuse, 12 rod slots, and 2 dark rings around either end.

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A detailed glowing translucent blue image of a hand nuke. It is two roughly spherical panel-ladden cores held together by a short bridge. Two rod slots, one antenna, and several support feet are visible.

Assemble a Nuke

Craft nukes using crates, pliers, and blueprints. Hit a pile of crates with your pliers, and choose a blueprint. Later, other machines and devices will be available in the assembly system.

A short-white–haired woman with a rod in her hand, and a rod on her rack.

Agile Warsuit Technology

Your warsuit lets you parkour and free-run through stunning highrises and skyscrapers to experience incredibly vertical gameplay. It includes a micro-RITEG to power the climbing prongs and Pentachoron display, all while recharging your racked weapons.

$4 armored people holding Ein-Stens and Plasma Cannons, looking up with a backdrop of Rgiant, a huge chasm of intricate fractal silhouettes in a purple-green fog$

$4 armored people holding Ein-Stens and Plasma Cannons, looking up with a backdrop of Rgiant, a huge chasm of intricate fractal silhouettes in a purple-green fog$ $4 armored people holding Ein-Stens and Plasma Cannons, looking up with a backdrop of Rgiant, a huge chasm of intricate fractal silhouettes in a purple-green fog$

Explore Huge Maps

Fly around, land your ship (or crash it into) huge mind-numbingly vertical maps, or fight the alien AI-controlled drones. Find a neat sheltered crevice to build your base and set up camp, protected from the bad guys.

A short-white-haired woman holding an Ein-Sten with one hand while riding a Rave hoverbike.

The Rave

A small hoverbike built for speed and maneuverability. It can be transported under the Corsaire support wing. You can ride the Rave while holding the Ein-Sten minigun on one hand, and even shoot sideways by using the Neo ability.

A top view of a gray Corsaire 3 gunship, painted with two stripes of yellow 'caution' zebra pattern, and a large number '37' on the front of the dark matter drive engine.

Fly the Corsaire 3 Gunship

This was the first spacecraft that was added to the game. It has a hovering stability control for easy flying, and is equipped with a large dark matter drive on the front and two medium thrusters on the support wings. This utility ship let you attach weapons, nukes, cargo, or hoverbikes under the support wings and release them from the cockpit GUI. You can bombard the ground with nukes, or drop hoverbikes mid-flight, with or without people riding them.

A field of stars among a deep blue nebula

Corsaire 3

2 seat, 3 engine gunship featuring 3 bays with a total of 6 module slots. It also features 4 double-barreled mounted guns and two pylons for cargo, weapons, or ordinance.

Punk 4

Hovercraft artillery unit. 2 seat, 4 engine hovertank with modular double cannon. One bay with a total of 9 module slots and 4 cargo pod slots. Retractable cockpit armor.

Menacing view of a monstruous purple hovertank with two Mark-1 artillery.

Rave 1

Hoverbike. One seat, 2 engine “form factor 1” hovercraft. One small module slot under the hood.

Side view of a Rave hoverbike painted red and white, being ridden by a short-white-haired woman holding an Ein-Sten

Nuke Bike

Hoverbike. One seat, 2 engine “form factor 1” hovercraft. One small module slot under the hood and six nuclear rod slots on the sides.

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A green armored person holding a Shaper building tool, demonstrating how to extend a shape. A green selection bubble is visible, showing the space that the shape will expand to fill. Blue grid lines are visible on the floor, showing that the system works on a grid.

Build Your Base

The Shaper tool gives you unparalleled building freedom, using prefabs in combination with basic shapes. Additionally, copy-paste and blueprint saving allows you to quickly create intricate structures.

5x1x1 meter oblong rectangular container, with red stripes along its lengthwise corners.

Pod Container

Carry more stuff with this 5x1x1 meter multi-purpose container! The Pod lets you take crates, spare modules, nukes, weapons, and other supplies everywhere you go, conveniently attached under the wing of your Corsaire, or in the back of your Punk 4 hovertank.

Hangar Blueprint

Built by Rodol

Translucent blue building plan of a hangar.

Squadron Base Hangar

Built by Rodol

Solid metallic dome-like construction with an internal space and a large wide open 'skylight' for landing or taking off from.

Library Blueprint

Built by Mr. Animator

Roughly T shaped translucent blue two-floor building plan. The entrance has columns in front.

Library

Built by Mr. Animator

Solidified T shaped two-floor construction, with columns in the front entrance, and many windows.

Castle Blueprint

Built by Max Pendragon

Castle

Built by Max Pendragon

Solidified two-floor building, with Robo Turrets positioned in between the merlons.

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A pink-haired woman with blue and red armor, and green glasses, holding a hand nuke in her right hand.

Customize Your Character

Choose between different head options, including a cat head! Completely change and customize your appearance at any point in time, and save and load your customization presets as needed.

A cat with orange armor holding a bright yellow airbrush tool.

Paint Everything

Most items can be customized, including player characters, ships, & buildings. You can paint, place markings, insignia, symbols, and styled letters. There are hundreds of symbols to choose from, and they can all be colored, scaled, rotated, scratched up, and outlined.

Paint room gui with dark gridded background, and panels on either side to select paint color and design decals

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A blue haired man with purple armor is holding a large crate in either hand.

Crates

Craft nukes using crates, pliers, and blueprints. Carry the crates, put them together and build different types of nukes using the assembly system. Later, other machines and devices will use this system.

Modules

Modules can be carried and loaded into the vehicle module bays. Different ships will have different module requirements, and determine the ship’s performance. Modules are currently a work in progress.

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Gunner Turret

Go on missions with your buddies! The gunner seat features a full 360 gimballed actuated seat weapon system for easy targeting.

Corsaire 3 Gunner seat with 2 Ein-Mount cannons and a glass cupola.

Robo Turret

Set up this automatic defense device through the Shaper building system. The turret is modular, accepting a variety of weapons, including the Hex energy cannon.

Imposing double barreled automatic turret with a red sensor light in between its two Hex cannons.

Mark-1 Cannon

Tank-mounted medium-range modular plasma artillery piece.

Extremely long shiny gray Mark 1 artillery cannon with intricate engineering at its base.

Deltoid

Swarming enemy droneship equipped with a Hex energy cannon and flock phasing drive.

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6 distinct symbols: 2 green, 2 purple, and 2 orange.

Community, Ranks, and Roleplay

The Rival Rebels Community is very friendly. Our forum has been active since 2013, when I released the original Rival Rebels mod. (Thank you guys!) There are also ranks and reputation points. The economy, factions, guilds, and player skills are coming soon.

Rival Rebels Book

Mix together a fast-paced sci-fi thriller with witty humor, real science, and fresh dialogue, and you get the Rival Rebels novel. Join these young heroes on their action-packed journey through strange worlds. The 300 page story talks about the origins of Rival Rebels lore and how the dudes got together.

Regen

Repairs the host ship or connected machines.

An angularly styled box with glowing blue blinds on its internal face.

Shield

Provides protection to the ship or connected machines.

A shiny cubical frame containing a layered dark stack of disks.

Sklodowska

Generates energy for the ship or connected machines. This module is a RITEG, or a radioisotope thermoelectric generator.

A metal cube with extruded corners and two glowing blue lines wrapping around it.

Traktor

Allows you to pick up loot drops from raids.

A compact shiny box with faceted corners and glowing blue meters visible along its edges.

Arrhenius Battery

Provides passive power and power storage to the ship or connected machines.

A dark gray box with bright orange stripes along its corners.

Minkowski Drive

Provides Phase Travel capabilities to the ship or connected machines.

A dark gray box reminiscent of an hourglass with glowing blue lines converging at a point on each face.

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