Games like Synthwave Driver
If Synthwave Driver is your kind of game, the closest matches are Midnight Thunder Drive, OutWave: Retro chase and Retrowave 2 — picked from the ranked list below. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Synthwave Driver: A nostalgic road trip on an endless highway, driving iconic '80s cars through a neon-filled paradise. Let the synthwave soundtrack guide you toward the horizon, leading you into a world of nostalgic vibes.
Players who liked Synthwave Driver also play
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Midnight Thunder Drive
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Top pick for Synthwave Driver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Synthwave Driver.
Get your dose of '80s nostalgia! Blaze through neon streets, master turbo boosts, and chase victory. With a synthwave soundtrack and addictive gameplay, unleash your inner '80s racer!
OutWave: Retro chase
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Second-strongest match for Synthwave Driver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
Endless car chase is a fast retro style paced game in which you must collect money and avoid the cops! The game supports Windows, Mac, Linux. Use keyboard or gamepad. Buy and control a cars or motorbikes. Listen to retro music and don't get caught by the cops! The game looks like a gif!
Retrowave 2
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Third-strongest match for Synthwave Driver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!
Neon Racer
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Ranked #4 for Synthwave Driver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
Endless road, neon lights, palm trees. The game immerses you in the atmosphere of retrowave. Welcome to Neon Racer! Neon Racer is a car simulator game in which you drive along the endless road and avoid other cars.
80's Night
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Ranked #5 for Synthwave Driver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
Endless road, neon lights, palm trees. The game immerses you in the atmosphere of the 80's. Welcome to 80's Night! 80's Night is a car simulator game in which you drive along the endless road and avoid other cars.
Cyber Driver
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Ranked #6 for Synthwave Driver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
Cyber Driver is a small cyberpunk-style arcade flight game. It is fast, easy, tight, and repeatable, with elements of collection and challenges. Your only goal in the game is to constantly break the scores you have created before in the unique cyber atmosphere.
Retrowave
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Ranked #7 for Synthwave Driver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!
Vaporwave Drift
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Ranked #8 for Synthwave Driver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Synthwave Driver.
"Vaporwave Drift" is a single (no AI) driving drift game, It's fast, easy, tight, and repeatable, with elements of collection and challenges. In the game you can choose the track you like to drift and challenge the global leaderboard(Total Laps).
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Synthwave Driver at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Synthwave Driver on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Synthwave Driver on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Synthwave Driver.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Synthwave Driver on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Synthwave Driver.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under Synthwave Driver on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Synthwave Driver.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Synthwave Driver on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Synthwave Driver.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Synthwave Driver on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under Synthwave Driver on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Synthwave Driver.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Synthwave Driver.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Synthwave Driver.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Synthwave Driver.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Meteor 60 Seconds!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Synthwave Driver.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
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Frequently asked about Synthwave Driver
- How much does Synthwave Driver cost?
- Synthwave Driver is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Synthwave Driver?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Synthwave Driver are Midnight Thunder Drive, OutWave: Retro chase, Retrowave 2.
- Who developed Synthwave Driver?
- Synthwave Driver was developed by Runebox Studios.
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