- Game: Keep Driving
- Developer & Publisher: Y/CJ/Y Games
- Genre: Adventure, Casual, RPG, Simulation
- Review Platform: Nintendo Switch (Played via Nintendo Switch 2)
- Release Date: Out Now
Author’s Note: A Game Key for Keep Driving was kindly provided by Future Friends
Today, we are taking it back to the early noughties with Keep Driving. Ahead lies a long, slow summer, and upon hearing about a festival which is being hosted on the other side of the country, it’s time to set out on a road trip. Plan your route on your map and start driving. It’s up to you how you get there and if you get to the festival in the end.
Keep Driving has been developed by the Swedish studio Y/CJ/Y and is known for their previous games such as The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human, Sea Salt and POST VOID. Keep Driving is their most recent release. Having originally been released on Steam in early 2025, it has now recently been released on consoles along with a Steam Workshop update too.
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Keep Driving: Console Trailer
If Keep Driving has started to make you curious, take a look at the game’s most recent trailer.
So, what do you think?
Key Game Features
Keep Driving is described as a game that generates procedurally over time. Exploring the roads one by one. A game with multiple endings where it can take you between one and four hours to complete. Dive in and immerse yourself in the game’s world. Pick up a variety of curious and interesting hitchhikers, and listen to their stories. Upgrade and personalise your car, and solve a variety of challenges on the way.
At the end of your journey, you can return to the start and see if you take the same or a different path when playing through the story again. Inspired and set in an early-noughties landscape, you’ll find yourself driving through a variety of locations in the analogue world.
Along the way you’ll find yourself picking up and meeting a variety of characters. From hitchhikers, misfits and lost souls. Each with their own story and a few jokes to help the journey on its way.
Featuring a soundtrack packed full of local indie bands, Keep Driving is full of surprises, especially with its multiple endings. That’s not to mention that the game is inspired by the likes of Faster Than Light, Oregon Trail II and Gloom Haven to name a few as well as the developer’s real life experiences.
What do I think?
Keep Driving is a game where I simply wanted to keep on driving.
From when I first stumbled across the game, there was something about it that drew me in. The art style and the idea behind the game were something a little different to add into my rotation. In short, I’m glad I did and don’t let the short game time or multiple endings put you off.
Without spoiling anything, this game was everything I was hoping it would be and more. I could go at my own pace, discover a variety of stories along the way and take in the sights and music along the way. However, it was more than just that.
I had to keep in mind a number of different aspects on this journey. Ensuring I had enough fuel in the car and the condition of my car. The placement of items in the trunk of the car and if I was going to accept a fellow passenger along the way. That’s before I get to looking at customising and upgrading my car at the garage, shopping for essentials to help on my journey and planning my attack when coming up again with the likes of tractors and sheep going on a side quest.
Of course, upon starting the game, you have a couple of choices to make which can influence how your journey plays out. With the help of skill points which you gain along the way, each journey is one of a kind. Where you go and how far you go is really up to you, although the ultimate end goal would be arriving at the festival.
I really enjoyed the combat-style sections in the game, and while not combat as such, it still made you think outside the box to optimise each turn you played. At times you could gain an extra turn; sometimes one of your passengers’ skills could help you out, and it was simply good fun.
There was no stress, no pressure and no concern of messing something up along the way, as that was all part of the journey. It was enjoyable and relaxing, and I loved the bands featured on the game’s soundtrack! I can certainly say it fitted the atmospheric side of the game perfectly.
While this was a Nintendo Switch game, it played with zero issues on the Nintendo Switch 2. Gameplay was smooth and, as expected, throughout all of my playthroughs.
Keep Driving is out now on Steam, Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
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