Just played the demo, it's an awful experience.

[IndianaJones]

Pros:
- the idea for the game
- art style
- maybe voice acting

Cons:
- the whole freaking rest.

- ambiguous objectives and nav points even in first tutorial mission
- keyboard controls layout
- car physics.
- car view, the camera is way off, view is so limited, it's not how it looks in real car, and FOV slider does not help. It's like camera is anchored in wrong place.
- player physics, walking seems way off
- gpu optimization

Overall experience was really painful and annoying. The focus was too much on art style and this retro climate over main gameplay loop design, so that game would be actually fun to play and not only looking nice.

[pissywithyoursissy]

Originally posted by NONAME:

I wish the game was more... chill?

It has this No Man's Sky vibe and graphics. They didn't need to make it a sweaty survival game.

The game can be chill though lol, if you read up on it... it has something called a difficulty option.. you can turn off enemies and tinker it to baby you as much as you need

[Jeff Kaos]

I'm wondering how you can have the word "Drive" in your game title and then have players fast travel to and from areas.

I was sort of expecting an open road adventure where I was given a starting point, a destination and a few locations to start out exploring. Instead I got a game that's a lot like Chernobylite but with a car.

And the driving is too counterintuitive for me for all the reasons you state. Okay, I can work with the locked first-person view while driving even though I don't like it. But giving me such a narrow view in the car and making my "head swivel" so slow in the car makes the driving really hard. Turning a corner is a pain. And I can't understand anything happening outside of the car while I'm driving. Putting the driving in third-person would alleviate a lot of the problems I have with driving but short of that make the right-stick move way faster in the car than it does when I'm walking.

[Shillen]

Totally agreed man. It's so frustrating not knowing what to do or how anything works. A lot of the upgrades are like ok what do I do with this, how do I use it, etc. Things in the workshop like the vacuum and the pneumatic tube are like ???. The game doesn't explain anything and it's really frustrating.

Then the actual driving is not enjoyable at all. Ok let's drive offroad in a freaking station wagon sounds like a fun time. And on top of that we're gonna throw a bunch of annoying as crap for you to drive around. Then the only real danger is going to come at the very end after you just spent a while collecting crap. I really struggle to understand how anyone enjoys this gameplay loop. And this is from someone who loves survival games and roguelites.