A player with a full blast meter, when being hit by a rocket, will ricochet and fly out of the map, resulting in death.

The game also features a cooperative multiplayer mode named Rocketbot Attack in which three players fend off waves of bots controlled by artificial intelligence.

[3] Rocket Arena is the debut title for Final Strike Games, whose core team previously worked at 343 Industries and contributed to the multiplayer of Halo 5: Guardians.

Initially the game was designed to be first-person, but the team switched it to third-person after implementing the dodge moveset.

[7] It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on July 14, 2020, with cross-platform play enabled.