Hey everyone!
We really want to thank all 100,000+ people that bought the game to this date and we are so proud that its done this well. It's been our riskiest game as it took us 5+ years to make and by far the most difficult to design and execute so this is overwhelmingly huge for us. It paid off! If you enjoyed the game but haven't written a review, please write one. It means so much to us and to steam visibility to have lots of reviews, especially positive reviews that reflect the game. :)
Along with all the sales we've also won the prestigious Indie Cade Grand Jury Award, nominated at Amaze (yet to see if we win), and a lot of great scores and reviews:
- PC Gamer - 90/100 "A management RPG that perfectly captures the feel of a long and memorable road trip."
- Polygon - recommended "This road-trip sim is a great storytelling system about a joyfully wasted youth"
- Rock Paper Shotgun - recommended "A free-wheeling RPG road trip that pushes all the right buttons. Manage spare tires and drink endless coffee while you trundle to the other side of a pixel pleasant country."
- Gamerant - 10/10 "Keep Driving's setting is nothing spectacular, but that's precisely the point."
- The New York Times - recommended "Although Keep Driving has a profoundly hopeful message, it also captures the raucous plasticity and vivacious drive of youth, reminding us that we all once wound up stranded without gas on the side of an empty road."
New Update - Controller support and Steam Deck verification
Right now we are looking forward to a pretty stable future for the game with a few content updates, localization and later in the year consoles. This new update includes controller support (which will result in it being steam deck verified soon) - that being the big one - and a few smaller ones: double the amount of decals, and a couple new places to interact with.
In our next content update we'll take a look at upgrades and threats and see if we can give them a bit of a touch up! There's a little teaser
Cheers!
Christopher & Josef
Y/CJ/Y