Setting out onto the open road with no real goal in sight we encounter plenty of unusual obstacles, pick up all kinds of strange hitchhikers, and upgrade our car with various improvements as we manage to make our way to the Festival Ending in YCJY Games’ Keep Driving.
Keep Driving is an atmospheric management RPG about hitting the open road during the early 2000s, when you’ve just bought your first car and have an entire summer ahead of you. After hearing about a music festival on the other side of the country, you’ll plot your route across a procedurally generated pixel-art world, picking up hitchhikers, working odd jobs and deciding where the journey takes you. Along the way you’ll meet an assortment of misfits, oddballs and lost souls, each with their own personalities and stories to discover.
Keeping your aging car on the road is just as important as reaching your destination, with upgrades, repairs, customization and careful resource management all playing a part in the journey. Roadside problems are handled through an unusual turn-based “combat” system that uses your character’s skills and whatever useful items you happen to have packed in the glovebox. With branching routes, multiple endings, a soundtrack featuring Swedish indie bands and road trips designed to play out differently each time, Keep Driving captures the freedom, uncertainty and nostalgia of being young with nowhere you absolutely need to be.
Keep Driving
Developer: YCJY Games
Publisher: YCJY Games, Kepler Ghost
Platform: Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation, Switch, PC/Steam
Release Date: 7th Feb, 2026 – 28th September, 2026 (Console)
Price: $17.99 USD
Available here – https://whycjwhy.com/keepdriving/index.html
Summary:
Recommended – “Keep Driving delivers endlessly replayable runs and a great vibe, but long sessions reveal fading challenge and annoying RNG.”
Check out our review for Keep Driving here!
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