Games Like The Long Drive

Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 17.7%, Driving 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8%

Why You'll Like It: It closely mirrors The Long Drive with a vast procedurally generated landscape, vehicle scavenging and repair, survival systems, and solo or co-op road-trip exploration.

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.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 28.2%, Driving 21.1%, Open World 11.4%, Survival 8.4%, Racing 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its famously detailed first-person car assembly, maintenance, fueling, and rural driving capture the same hands-on, chaotic vehicle-ownership appeal.

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

Why similar: Automobile Sim 29.6%, Driving 26.9%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 9.4%, First-Person 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: You maintain a battered, upgradeable car while making a long, uncertain journey through procedurally assembled roads and border crossings.

Junkyard Truck is an open-world off road driving and mechanic simulator. Build, upgrade, and maintain your old off road truck. Make money using your skills in driving, scavenging, gambling, or moonshine brewing. Try to build a truck capable of taking on the difficult challenges around the map.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 33.8%, Driving 27.5%, Open World 16%, Simulation 6.4%, Exploration 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world vehicle sandbox revolves around restoring, modifying, fueling, and driving an old truck through a rough rural environment.

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.

Why similar: Driving 38.2%, Survival 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Exploration 7.6%, First-Person 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines first-person scavenging and survival with constant station-wagon repairs, upgrades, and tense expeditions into a hostile exclusion zone.

You. Your car. And world under the sand.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 21.2%, Driving 20.5%, Racing 13%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Survival 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is built around crossing a dangerous desert in an unreliable vehicle while managing repairs, supplies, and route choices.

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!

Why similar: Driving 20.8%, Automobile Sim 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Open World 11.4%, Racing 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a post-apocalyptic survival game where finding fuel and keeping a vehicle running is central to exploring its hostile open world.

An atmospheric management RPG about life on the open road. Pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs, customize and repair your car, and map your route across the country. Use upgrades, skills and items to overcome challenges. And remember to take it easy. You’re young. You have time.

Why similar: Driving 42.8%, Automobile Sim 20.5%, Open World 13.3%, Exploration 9.3%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This road-trip RPG captures the resource-management side of a long drive, with vehicle upkeep, hitchhikers, detours, and unpredictable events.

Dead End Road is an atmospheric driving game, with a low-fi aesthetic and procedurally generated elements. Complete your journey to seek the assistance of the old witch at Dead End Road; Get there before daybreak and perhaps, just perhaps, you can escape this nightmare.

Why similar: Racing 65.5%, Horror 25%, Indie 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its roguelite post-apocalyptic road trips focus on driving between dangerous stops, scavenging resources, and surviving unpredictable encounters.

Brave the challenging conditions of Alaskan life in the definitive trucker simulator. Be the master of your own destiny as you take jobs, transport cargo and experience a sense of freedom on foot and in your cab.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 23.8%, Driving 21.3%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 9.9%, Racing 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends long-haul driving with on-foot survival, vehicle maintenance, cargo management, and harsh-weather road hazards.

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

Why similar: Driving 26.4%, Automobile Sim 25.2%, Racing 11.3%, Open World 11%, Realistic 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides unmatched soft-body vehicle physics and a sandbox for testing, damaging, repairing, and driving cars across open maps.

Enjoy realistic driving in the open world. Relaxing cargo deliveries or driving buses and taxis will give you enough money to buy new cars and parts. You can test your driving skills at the race track. It's all about pure driving pleasure!

Why similar: Driving 25.7%, Automobile Sim 25%, Open World 13.4%, Racing 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This relaxed open-world driving sim lets you take varied driving jobs, explore freely, and enjoy a similarly unhurried road-focused sandbox.

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

Why similar: Driving 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Open World 18.5%, Automobile Sim 13.5%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its open post-apocalyptic wasteland, highly customizable car, scavenging, and long desert drives make it an excellent more action-heavy alternative.

MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.4%, Driving 27.1%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Open World 9.5%, Realistic 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its slow, demanding off-road expeditions emphasize realistic vehicle handling, route planning, winching, and overcoming punishing terrain.

Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 26.8%, Driving 22.1%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Racing 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the methodical satisfaction of keeping heavy vehicles moving through a huge wilderness where fuel, damage, cargo, and terrain all matter.

MY GARAGE is a car simulation game with main focus being simulating real car repair, maintenance and physics.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 27.8%, Driving 17%, Racing 12.6%, Open World 11.5%, Realistic 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed mechanical work and open-world driving make it a strong fit for players who enjoy The Long Drive's repair and tinkering systems.

Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.1%, Driving 26.6%, Racing 14.9%, Open World 11.2%, Exploration 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes rural life simulation with hands-on car tuning, repairs, delivery driving, and the pleasure of building up a scrappy vehicle.

Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, Open World 20.2%, Survival 18.3%, Shooter 13.3%, Horror 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although the mobile home is a train rather than a car, it offers the same first-person survival loop of scavenging, upgrading, and traveling through a ruined world.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Open World 29.3%, Survival 26.9%, Multiplayer 21%, First-Person 8.3%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival mode lets you build improvised vehicles from parts, gather resources, and drive custom machines through an open world.

Obtain, maintain and tune your "OHV" car. Build your own buggy. Build your own garage. Race to win trophies. Work to earn money. A Open world game set in Poland in the 90s.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.5%, Driving 28.3%, Open World 11.3%, Racing 8.2%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers first-person vehicle restoration, customization, off-road driving, and open-ended rural exploration in a similarly scrappy sandbox style.

Apex Point is an open world game that aims to immerge you into the Japanese car culture by providing a huge variety of customizations and race types so you can choose your own path

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.6%, Racing 19.7%, Open World 12.9%, Driving 11.3%, Multiplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world automotive sim focuses on owning, modifying, tuning, and driving cars, with a strong emphasis on garage-level detail.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Survival 30.3%, Open World 29.7%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world zombie survival with fuel management, vehicle damage, scavenging runs, and the ever-present risk of being stranded.

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland of diesel and dust, bandits and mobsters rule the last remaining cities, controlling all vital trade routes and destroying any hope of a return to a lawful world.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 37.5%, Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Open World 14.2%, Driving 12.2%, Racing 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic driving RPG centers on upgrading an armed truck, hauling cargo, and surviving dangerous wasteland routes.

Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.

Why similar: Racing 24.4%, Open World 21.1%, Survival 19%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Exploration 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes assembling custom vehicles and taking them across large sandbox environments, ideal for the experimental mechanical side of The Long Drive.

My Winter Car is the ultimate challenge for project car owning, building, fixing, tuning and maintenance simulator. Sequel to My Summer Car, but with added challenge for those who can master the original game!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 24%, Driving 20.2%, Racing 14.3%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 7.6%

Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 57.8%, Survival 39.2%, Indie 3%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based road-trip survival game is about protecting a car, rationing supplies, scavenging stops, and pushing through a collapsing post-apocalyptic America.

Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 39.9%, Driving 20.6%, Racing 11.4%, Realistic 8.8%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a deep hands-on repair and restoration sim for players who especially enjoy dismantling, fixing, upgrading, and test-driving vehicles.

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Open World 36.2%, Multiplayer 23%, Survival 21.4%, Exploration 9.4%, Adventure 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: You build modular vehicles from scavenged parts and use them to explore, fight, and gather resources across open alien worlds.

The Slaverian Trucker is a Survival/Truck/Life simulator game. Make enough money to survive and expand your wealth in the harsh semi-post apocalyptic lands of Slaveria, doing legal and illegal work, while maintaining, fixing, building, repairing, tuning your trucks, cars and other vehicles.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 26.3%, Driving 22.3%, Open World 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Survival 7.6%

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.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 29.5%, Driving 26.4%, Open World 13.9%, Realistic 8.9%, Exploration 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: While less survival-focused, it offers the meditative long-distance driving, fuel stops, vehicle ownership, and open-road atmosphere that many Long Drive players enjoy.

Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic, driving, survival, fps, open-world game. Fight, help, trade with different factions. Find different cars and customize them. Scavenge, loot and survive the procedurally generated, open world of Apocalypter.

Why similar: Driving 25.4%, Automobile Sim 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.1%

Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 61.2%, Exploration 15.8%, Adventure 10.7%, Indie 7.9%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the wasteland convoy fantasy into a tactical roguelite, with vehicle upgrades, resource decisions, and dangerous road encounters.

City Car Driving 2.0 is a driving simulator designed to help novice drivers master driving in a setting as close to reality as possible.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 29.7%, Driving 23%, Racing 13.7%, Open World 8.5%, Realistic 8.3%

City Car Driving – realistic car driving simulator, which will help you master the basic skills of the car driving in various traffic conditions, with plunging into the environment most closely resembling the real one.

Why similar: Driving 31.7%, Automobile Sim 27.9%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Simulation 6.2%

Survive the apocalypse behind the wheel. Drive endless Highways, scavenge parts to build and arm your vehicle, and plow through massive zombie hordes. Mount turrets, fortify your ride, and outlast the dead - Solo or Up to 4 Player Multiplayer co-op

Why similar: Automobile Sim 23.4%, Driving 22.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.6%

Join the Early Access journey with this immersive driving-survival game. Explore the harsh American wilderness in the Long Drive North. Drive & repair your trusty RV, scavenge for parts, upgrade your vehicle, hunt & cook to survive; alone or with up to 4 players. SHARED RV MULTIPLAYER NOW AVAILABLE.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 18.3%, Driving 17.3%, Racing 9.7%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.5%

Used Cars Simulator - trade used or stolen cars, fix and customize them, drive around, and explore the open world! Grow your business, complete quests, and have fun with a physics-based sandbox!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 27%, Driving 25%, Racing 15.7%, Open World 12%, Realistic 6.8%

Bus World is a game about passenger transportations in various conditions, starting from standard days of a bus driver and ending with rescuing people who suffered from disasters.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 28.8%, Driving 22.4%, Racing 13.5%, Open World 11%, Realistic 7.4%

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Driving 34.3%, Open World 16.8%, Survival 16.2%, Realistic 10.7%, First-Person 8.3%

Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!

Why similar: Driving 32.5%, Open World 22.5%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Racing 12.2%, Simulation 5.3%

A co-op adventure about driving your Recreational Vehicle home.

Why similar: Driving 36.2%, Multiplayer 33.8%, First-Person 7.9%, Exploration 7.4%, Adventure 5.5%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21%, Open World 18%, Survival 17.7%, Horror 10.7%, Shooter 9.2%

Survive 🏚️, Gain Reputation ✊, Earn Money 💸, Build Your Car 🛠️, Win Races 🏁, Become a Legend 👑

Why similar: Automobile Sim 33.5%, Driving 25.5%, Racing 11.6%, Open World 6.3%, Simulation 5.7%

Arm your vehicle with deadly weapons and roam endless wastelands in this fast-paced single-player / online co-op car combat game. Collect upgrades for your car to melt enemies and giant bosses in this bizarre world. Retro vibe. Retro cars. Retro gameplay!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.5%, Driving 22.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Racing 12%, Open World 11.1%

My Village Life is an open world village simulator vehicle driving game.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.7%, Driving 20.8%, Racing 15.8%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Buy used cars and motorcycles, negotiate with sellers, and discover each vehicle’s true value. Drive, repair, repaint, and customize your vehicles before selling them for a profit. Start with a small office, grow your dealership, and become the city’s most successful vehicle dealer!

Why similar: Driving 31%, Automobile Sim 29.4%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Realistic 6.2%

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.

Why similar: Driving 31.9%, Open World 17%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Survival 15.2%, Shooter 7.8%

MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Survival 19.3%, Open World 16.9%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Horror 10.2%

Driving Life is a hardcore driving survival game set in rural America. Earn money by driving manual cars, vans, and trucks, transport tourists, pay rent, buy fuel, and survive on a tight budget. Every dollar counts - spend wisely or go broke!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 38.6%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 10.7%, Realistic 10.4%, Exploration 8%

Usually everyone is unemployed here. But by chance you got a job. You'il work for the state.Everyone in your family is sick or unemployed, only you can help them. You're an immigrant officer.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 35.2%, Simulation 15.6%, Driving 14.7%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 7.5%

Build vehicles from the ground up and drive them across a hostile open world. Scavenge parts, tools and supplies, engineer your chassis, engine, wiring and controls by hand, and fight off wildlife, the undead and rival survivors. Play Survival solo or in 6-player co-op, or build freely in Sandbox.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 24%, Driving 21.9%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 10.6%, Multiplayer 10%

DRİVE 21 is a simulation game. By earning money with job opportunities, by making logistics and taxi driver, by buying and modifying your own vehicle with the money you earn, you can make your own vehicle and you can travel with your own vehicle with open world driving experience.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 32.5%, Driving 19.2%, Open World 16.9%, Multiplayer 9%, Simulation 8.9%

You inherit your dad’s beaten up car and rebuild it piece by piece, swapping engine parts, upgrading the suspension, fitting new wheels and more until it becomes a high performance race car. Beat your opponents and earn revenge for your dad.

Why similar: Racing 50.5%, Open World 20.3%, Exploration 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Simulation 5.9%

Load, drive, and deliver through a huge open world with up to 24 players in cross-platform multiplayer. Join your friends in exciting heavy transport convoys. Jump into the driver's seat of more than 30 unique vehicles and carry out complex loading tasks to deliver a variety of cargo.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 26.8%, Driving 22.6%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Realistic 8.3%

Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.

Why similar: Survival 31%, Post-apocalyptic 27.3%, Realistic 17%, Shooter 11.6%, First-Person 10.3%

SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

Why similar: Open World 26.3%, Survival 26%, Post-apocalyptic 24.2%, Shooter 8.1%, Exploration 6%

Chase violent tornadoes across 1990s Tornado Alley. Read the forecast, deploy scientific probes, warn towns and upgrade your equipment as every procedurally generated storm pushes you closer to disaster.

Why similar: Driving 49.5%, Open World 26.6%, First-Person 10.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Adventure 3.4%

Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.8%, Driving 23.3%, Open World 15.2%, Realistic 9.3%, Simulation 7.3%