The Long Drive

Found a pushbike.
Put a V8 in it.
Overheated.
Pissed on it to cool it down.
repeat.
10/10.

This game scratches a very specific urge for me. The urge to drive a '58 Plymouth Fury cross-country with nothing but the clothes on your back and a dream. Due to issues outside of my control (Thanks vision issues.) I thought I could never live that dream. Thanks to The Long Drive, this and more is in my grasp. Put some twangy post-war rock and roll on the custom radio(!) and you have an evening in. Perfect.

Its a goofy road trip game, but the game is heavily unnoptimized. That does ruin the experience a bit, but its fun nonetheless

Good Game To Stream At Sometimes when your bored but it has a few bugs but still for the discounted price is really good

I know the game hasn't been updated since Nov 2024 (Currently March 2025) but I'm having a blast ! I almost never buy "early access" but this is good. I've heard that the devs are rewriting the game from scratch, we'll see! In the meantime, it's great as is.

really fun and unique game, don't make the same newbie mistake i done and start your long road trip without extra fuel and stock in your car XD, even thoe there are some minor bugs 10/10 i would recommend it.

very fun and realistic. tiny bit glitchy but thats just our pc

Game is fun, but need lots of patching and recoding to work probably.

best game ive played in a while looking forward to future updates ( i would say the game is a 13 as there are severed limbs and ''mutants'' ( also 13 for difficulty))

Quite possibly the jankiest game I've ever played but, I can't quite get enough of it.
Now, I just want to state something important:
This game has been pretty much completely abandoned by the devs. Regardless, it's actually a ton of fun.
If driving through a desert in a beaten up old rust bucket, or a hulked out battle bus full of weapons, sex dolls and severed limbs is your cup of tea, you'll definitely enjoy this game. It has a pretty active modding community on its Discord, too.

I've heard the multiplayer is pretty buggy, but I'm not a multiplayer kind of guy so I don't know too much about that side of it.
So yeah... don't expect any updates. They're not coming.

Easy learning curve, great gameplay : prepare gas/oil/water tanks + clean car + fill gas/water/oil + drive + loot + repeat

What a vibe. Worth the purchase price and a ton of replay-ability.

Despite the title of the game, you're not that likely to die from driving, no matter how much your car flips over. Meanwhile, I died once from opening a door too hard and it ended up slamming into me, killing me instantly. 10/10, recc for those who just want to spend all their gaming time driving endlessly

this game is super funny i love to see the cars fly up in the air when i drive in a rock or in a house!

The game is overall very interesting and original, the graphics quality is not the best, likewise the optimisation, but the gameplay is simple: drive, stop at a gas station, replenish your food etc. Rinse and repeat. Now, there are quite a few bugs and issues but they are expected to be in this early access state. I really hope that this game receives many more new and exciting updates. I recommend this game.

They broke the multiplayer mode 2+ years ago and have no intention to fix it. I went into the discord a little bit after the last update and was practically told to f**k off by fans because multiplayer was no longer part of the vision of the game or whatever, now it has not been updated whatsoever in almost 2 years.
Crazy.

Make sure you actually have friends, and this game is the best!! also fun single player, but multiplayer makes it all the better.

Fun game for a couple who have a love for road trips but can't afford/don't want to leave home <3 We purchased the game yesterday and have played for 18 hours already. It is hilarious and such a blast!

Seems abandoned, too unfinished to even be called a game... Nothing to do

The Roblox copies of this game are now better than the actual game, that's where this game is at right now

game is funny however it requires quite a powerful device to play it therefore the only way of me playing it on my standard laptop was by turning off everything that was a on / off setting in graphics (except mirrors because that give you an advantage in the game)

This game has so much potential to be such a good game. While the physics are a little janky at times, single player is a rewarding experience. While multiplayer can sometimes render the game unplayable, warranting the humble restart, it can be 10x more enjoyable and more rewarding with you reach the end goal with your friends, or finally make it back to the main path after a 2 thousand kilometer detour along a decoy path.

amazing, i drove the first 100km, very fun when driving 100km/h hitting the tiniest rock and getting flung 100 feet in the air, would recommend if you wanna do hardcore in this game or hangout with ur friends and mess around :33

It's all about the fun of the challenge of traveling multiple types of land masses and surviving a long drive in your favorite custom build, till you either, get upgrades, or sacrificing to a weak vehicle due to circumstances along the travel. It's not all about beating the game, it's all about the fun challenge and its random opportunities to give in forms of vehicles to discover along your path.

cool concept. got it to try the multiplayer that's in beta and it seems to work minus a few bugs.

This game is unplayable and broken garbage. I could not think of a worse waste of money than this game. Genuinely one of the worst made, looking and feeling games I have ever played. You can buy games for half the price with far more content and far more quality. You would be better off throwing your money off a bridge than spending it on this pathetic excuse for a game

I absolutely love this game, there is something about that vast emptiness that just encapsulates me. However after a while I've grown a little too attached to my vehicle and would love to bring a second car along, but the physics forbid such a thing from happening. Other than that, highly recommend, especially with friends.

Very fun, but this is the most "beta" thing that I have ever played. Feels like playing Minecraft in 1.0, but I am very hopeful that the game takes off and the devs start really putting work into the game.

Terrible Early Access, no longer Updates and the Beta Updates are crap, they implemented only new feature but don't working on the real issues.
When u see how much money that the developers earned is a reason to say they are LAZY and using this game for a cash grap.
There is now an alternative playable as "Demo" named "Drive Beyond Horizons" that feels more polished and runs million times better in the multiplayer. The controls are better only the lack of features is the difference, but this will change over the time.

its.. not great. this game is riddled with bugs. but that jank is part of it. the game wouldnt be the same.
the basic concept is to drive. you just drive, you dont really have a reason. you could easily miss the note from your mother at the start. but the goal isnt whats at the end. its about the journey. there is no mothers house. but this game is almost poetic in a way.
i once drove a trabant 601 sedan to 100km. wishing for one part and one part only. a volkswagen beetle motor. since it was the only other aircooled motor that had more horsepower.
right at probably ~97 i came across a giant hill. almost impassable. i was carrying a lada motor with me for this scenario. i fought for probably 40 minutes to get up that hill. and my reward? a volkswagen motor... one that i could barely use, because my journey, atleast with that car was over.

(i wanted to get to a 100km with every car, trying to keep them stock)



the game gets repetitive. after a certain point you rarely have a reason to stop since you have so much food and gas. speaking of food. i think the bacon ruins the game since its just the best. its flat, its filling. so its both space effective and literally the best. that its stupid. you also likely have so much ammo for your VZ. 58 that it doesnt matter. if you spray at the 'zombies' without a care. and thats the second issue.

theres not really any threats. the rabbits can ram your car and maybe throw your belongings across the desert. but that doesnt happen to often. theres no other traffic (yet) to cause you to swerve or raid. your car doesnt really need much. it needs water for the rad, which you will probably be carrying anyway since you also need water. oil for the engine. which is easy to find. and gas, which after a certain point you can have dozens of jerry cans filled with it. your engine will never overheat unless you have a really bad radiator or none stock engine. tires dont wear out. you can never have your tire blow while on the road. so theres little reason to carry spares. the greatest threat is a game ending rock spawning in the middle of the road out of no where.

its also way to easy to find the plymouth parts. (which are the fastest and best) such as the rad, which will keep any engine cool. or the engine which is quite good. i think the engines should have a condition like the
radiators do. where lower condition ones will putter out and stall easier. will have less torque and horsepower.

i simply cannot find a reason to play this anymore.

This GAme Has Alot to it. overall all i like this game and its fun to manage all that there is to do. F the critics, this is a good game!

Amazing game, would like to see a steam workshop for the game . all in all amazing game 5 stars (if steam had a star rating)

on the one hand its a fun game. on the other hand its maybe a bit pricy for basilly a meme game. get it when its on a good sale. just don't get it on full price.

It doesnt matter how hard you try, youll lose to the bugs. especially on multiplayer. multiplayer hardly works

if you dont know how to get mods watch a youtube stort about it but i change my mind and the game is good but devs can we have updates also why is my version from 2023.

multiplayer is shitty but other than that its really good

epic its such a fun game and its even better with mods!

Good game, but very very unoptimized. Cannot run on potatoes. If you can run it then 5/5 stars.

Very odd, crazy, fun game. Not many people know about this game but more people should. This was one of the reasons I got Steam. Fun to play while listening to music. There's no end in the end, keep on trying though, you make it at some point in time. Make more people know!

This game is so fun, but the optimization is ass, the servers are ass, the game play is so buggy "which is kinda funny ngl". istg the FREE roblox version has better optimization and has less bugs than this bs.
The game needs some work, it has so much potential but the devs are LAZY

As much as I want to recommend this game, I'll have to give it a tumbs down. The game is funny in the first half hour, but then some random game breaker bug happens. Furthermore, the game performance is so compromised that doing simple things is a pain in the ass. I really want this game to get better, because it has potential, however in this state, I think that buying another funny game is more worth the money and time

This game is pretty fun with friends. The game is so fucking buggy though, it's unplayable sometimes

It is the best game in all of steam/epic games (I know not a real browser but still) Might even be better then fortnite itself. AND I LOVE FORTNITE. This game has broughten be the most happienst i ever have had. Buy the game three times, on there different account. Thats what i did to show my support. I love The Long Drive. Thank you. And Goodnight. I go to bed now.

I don't usually leave a review but in this case...
I have 267 hours of play time while i have waited and waited for an update
that will never come (it gets easier once you accept that).
This game is dead. No seriously. There's been no updates in almost 2 years to the game other
than a beta branch that showcases...Nothing??
This has become nothing more than a blatant crash grab How I wish steam would allow for
refunds once this happens.
From a quick google.

Owner estimates

Gamalytic: Estimates around 1.28 million owners
SteamSpy: Estimates around 1.38 million owners
VG Insights: Estimates around 1.60 million owners
PlayTracker: Estimates around 1.74 million owners
The Long Drive made an estimate $30,294,414.15 in gross revenue since its release. Out of this, the developer had an estimated net revenue of $8,936,852.17.
There is No reason for lack of updates at this point... other than its abandoned.

This game is very fun, I like this game a lot because it's ,open world, the controls are very easy to learn, and overall just fun.

The Long Drive
-Randomly generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival zombie car long driving car game.

fun and goofy, a couple things that will improve your experience a lot:

- in settings, set physics lock to the whole interior, it is nice and reduces pretty much all lag in multiplayer
- enroll in the latest beta, the main version is way out of date
- if you came for just a chill driving game, disable hunger and enable peaceful mode
- if you have a decent pc, increase the draw distance in settings
- if you get confused dont be afraid to check the wiki or google it

Best game I have played in a long time almost as long as the drive itself I have made many memories while playing this game I suggest this game to many others who don`t touch grass such as myself.

Game has been in EA for years, and the last "update" was 21 months ago according to EA info box. I wasted way too much time in this game expecting something more.

Very clunky controls and buggy. If you're not the kind of person to get "fun" out of glitchy bugs, stay away from it. Nothing is explained.

I mean I guess. fun game but now I can't start the car without it showing like 3 red lights.