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Games like The Long Drive

If The Long Drive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Drive Beyond Horizons, Into the End (of the World) and Drive Beyond Horizons: Prologue — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its amusing physics glitches, quirky multiplayer mode and simple yet effective graphics. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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The Long Drive is a 2019 post-apocalyptic driving simulation developed and published by Genesz. Set in a randomly generated open world, the game focuses on vehicular survival and exploration from a first-person perspective, with support for multiplayer. Players describe the experience as chill and relaxing despite its survival setting, with quirky multiplayer modes and amusing physics glitches that emerge during gameplay. The title features vehicle customization and mod support, allowing players to adapt their cars for different journeys across the wasteland. Reviewers highlight the simple yet effective graphics as a distinctive aspect of the game. Priced at $15.99 USD, the game holds a 90% positive rating based on over 25,000 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.

About The Long Drive: Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.

2019ActionIndieAdventureSimulationCasualEarly Access15.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Genesz
The Long Drive — Steam game cover
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Amusing physics glitchesQuirky multiplayer modeSimple yet effective graphicsChillRelaxingMod support

Players who liked The Long Drive also play

Steam players who put hours into The Long Drive also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Drive Beyond Horizons

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle customization, open world exploration and a chill mood with The Long Drive.

    Top pick for The Long Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    Rev up your engines and venture into the unknown with Drive Beyond Horizons! Conquer dynamic landscapes, customize your ride, and unearth hidden treasures. Get ready for heart-pounding challenges and endless excitement. Your adventure starts now !

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Into the End (of the World)

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Long Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Long Drive.

    Drive, maintain, and survive. Explore procedural biomes in a post-apocalyptic world, scavenge for parts, and fight infected zones with friends. Build your survival machine from the chassis up and keep it running - because without it, you won’t get far.

    ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Drive Beyond Horizons: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Long Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    Rev up your engines and venture into the unknown with Drive Beyond Horizons: Prologue! Conquer dynamic landscapes, customize your ride, and unearth hidden treasures. Your introduction to our horizons starts now !

    ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  4. Drive 4 Survival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Long Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!

    2020ActionIndieSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. My Summer Car

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Long Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drive.

    My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.

    2025IndieSimulationRacing14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Under the Sand REDUX - a road trip simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle customization and a chill mood with The Long Drive.

    Ranked #6 for The Long Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    You. Your car. And world under the sand.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. BeamNG.drive

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle customization and mod support with The Long Drive.

    Ranked #7 for The Long Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with The Long Drive.

    A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

    2015SimulationEarly AccessRacing24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Mad Max

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Long Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Long Drive.

    Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to The Long Drive

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Drive Beyond Horizons

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle customization, open world exploration and a chill mood with The Long Drive.

    Reviewers of The Long Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    Rev up your engines and venture into the unknown with Drive Beyond Horizons! Conquer dynamic landscapes, customize your ride, and unearth hidden treasures. Get ready for heart-pounding challenges and endless excitement. Your adventure starts now !

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Pacific Drive

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Long Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.89 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Euro Truck Simulator 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with The Long Drive.

    Reviewers of The Long Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drive.

    Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.

    2012IndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Star Trucker

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle customization and a relaxing mood with The Long Drive.

    Reviewers of The Long Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with The Long Drive.

    Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.

    2024Simulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Jalopy

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with The Long Drive.

    Reviewers of The Long Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drive.

    Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

    2018IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Poly Roam

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle customization and a chill mood with The Long Drive.

    Reviewers of The Long Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    Poly Roam is a survival, driving road-trip game featuring a large, explorable environment that is procedurally generated. Loot, gather, and drive as much as you can.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. American Truck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration with The Long Drive.

    Reviewers of The Long Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drive.

    Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.

    2016IndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration with The Long Drive.

    Reviewers of The Long Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Take the journey, now in ultimate quality. Boasting a wealth of bonus content and supporting ultra high-resolution graphical options and HDR 10, you can now enjoy the beautiful and carefully-crafted experience of FINAL FANTASY XV like never before.

    2018RPG13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Long Drive at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under The Long Drive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drive.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under The Long Drive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under The Long Drive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with The Long Drive.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Long Drive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under The Long Drive on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Long Drive.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under The Long Drive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Long Drive.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Long Drive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drive.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under The Long Drive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drive.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Long Drive.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Long Drive.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drive.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drive.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drive.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drive.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Drive.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Long Drive

Does The Long Drive run on Steam Deck?
The Long Drive is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does The Long Drive cost?
The Long Drive is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Long Drive?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Long Drive are Drive Beyond Horizons, Into the End (of the World), Drive Beyond Horizons: Prologue.
Who developed The Long Drive?
The Long Drive was developed by Genesz.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Long Drive.

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