On December 15, 2016, I debuted at Gamerview with an article called. There, I selected three unusual Survival games linked by two common themes: highways and terror. I talked about the strange feeling of traveling roads in the silence of dawn, illuminated only by the moonlight and the beam of headlights, very fragile tools to scare the horrors that hide in darkness.
Of the three titles, only one had already been released and this state remains unchanged almost ten years later. However, none of the other two titles stopped on the side of the road. Its developers ensure that they follow the track. Driving Survival has changed his name to and became an obsession for both his creator and fans who eagerly await each exclusive new beta of the title. , which was promised for 2017, now has a scheduled release date for 2025 and may be honking at your door at any time.
In these nine years since the first volume of this selection, this subgenre within Survival Horror continued to octage, delivering nightmares moved to asphalt, diesel and burnt tire. In the meantime, we had accelerating vicinal roads from an exclusion zone, as well as several other independent titles for the wanderers without fear. I separated here three more options. Again, we have a single title already released and two others approaching. The lost road calls its name once again.
Drive Time Radio
Not only has it been available since the end of 2021, but it can also be downloaded for free through ITCH.io. In the silence of the night, your only company is a question and answer radio program. Unfortunately, what is at stake is much more than it appears to be, while the highway itself becomes a deadly trap that challenges the sense of reality. The creation of Collie Cariad mixes in the same 20 minutes Elements of Survival Horror, Parody, Direction and Cosmic Terror in a singular experience.
Roadtrip: The Engine of Madness
It was recently announced and was one of the main motivators for the production of this second volume of the original article. The Spanish game accompanies a woman who wakes up without memories in an abandoned cabin in the interior of the country. However, something is not right with the world around it and a vehicle becomes its only escape route to escape the monsters and seek answers. The developer claims to have been inspired by Silent Hill to make a story full of riddles in dream landscapes, where the maintenance and direction of a car occupy the center point of its mechanics.
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It breaks the paradigm of all previous games, where the vehicle is its safe haven. Here, evil can and will infiltrate inside the car, ensuring a devastating horror experience for the nerves. Without greater explanations, the title puts a player crossing secondary roads in a rural condition, while apocalyptic events happen outside and supernatural forces invade his own car. The available demonstration concludes with an insane journey through paths that challenge logic and everything that was supposedly understood.
This journey is unfinished and now I know that there will be no rest or stops. We see in the next volume, in the next decade, in the next fright.
