Keep Driving

I keep struggling to write a review for Keep Driving, since the game means an awful lot to me. There's truly no game like it: no single game that can similarly capture that beautiful, strange, dust-beaten experience of 'wasting' your fleeting youth on the road like this. It's got this wonderful old-school indie game sensibility (read: early 2010s) that can't really be replicated anymore (in what must be some irony) and plays great, but it's the sheer painstakingly-crafted atmosphere of a bygone era that it absolutely crushes in a way nothing else ever hope to. It's evocative of those feelings of cruising around during the tangerine twilight on a hot summer day, idling into adult life, windows open and wind beating at your shaggy holiday-hair. There's that warm sense of temporal liminality, of that middle-place between childhood and adulthood - it's the melancholic temporary escape of the cookie-cutter suburbia via Limewire'd indie music CDs and the futile promise that you won't become your parents. You're shuffling around aimlessly in some third-hand beater with fifty bucks in your pocket and a head foggy and full of promise. On scraps of paper you're trying to make sure your first tattoo is something really 'meaningful' to you, whatever that means. My GOTY 2025 if not the decade. Play Keep Driving. it's something really special.

This game is awesome! Makes me feel nostalgic for something I never got to experience but wish I had

This game blew me back to a teenage memory I never got the experience irl. The mechanics are complex enough to be enjoyable, it has tons of replay value, and a kickass ost. 10/10 would recommend.