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Keep Driving

An amazing resource management game with many side quests and different endings. The game features so many little details, it is amazing. Completion will take multiple (short) playthroughs, and, I guess, takes around 20h.

Steam

Approximate amount of time to 100%: I would guess around 20 hours
Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: At least 9, but the playthroughs are short
Is there a good guide available: Not yet
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: Not really, as the game is meant to be played through multiple times to get different endings
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: A little bit, for some achievements you have to find the right hitchhikers
Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty setting
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

In Keep Driving, you go on a road trip to a festival, but it is quite a long drive, and you have to find ways to get enough money for food, drinks, and fuel. You can sleep in your car, but maybe you get more rest when sleeping in a motel, but that would also cost a lot more. And on the road, lots of things will happen, and you need the resources to deal with all of it, or accept the damage to your car or yourself.

This is such a fun resource management game where money is one of the resources but not the only one. Another one is that your skills to deal with events you encounter are a major influence as well. The hitchhikers you let join on your ride will also have their own skills to help out, but they may also have downsides of things they hate and will cost you resources.

It took me a bit of time and a playthrough of 2 (which took an hour or so) to get the hang of everything and enjoy the game. At first, I wasn’t sure what I was doing or if I was playing the game correctly, and I wanted to play something else. After that phase, there was a phase where I closed the game after each playthrough to do something else but started the game again after 5 minutes to jump into another playthrough. What helped with this was also that the upgrades to your car stay, and I loved the setup I had by that time, so it made the beginning of each playthrough just a bit easier.

What I’m most impressed by in this game is all the details. Items you can use multiple times have different looks every time you use them. for example, a bag of chips closed looks different from having eaten from it. Warm coffee looks different from cold coffee. The car will look different in warm weather or rain, and if you don’t take care of it, you’ll see it starting to break down. You can also see the hitchhikers from the outside of the car. So so so many details that you maybe wouldn’t even notice have been added to change over the course of a playthrough.

The achievements are almost all for the different endings and the different side quests. The only one that seems to be different is for unlocking 25 CDs. So keep an eye out in shops for CDs and buy them when you see them. For the sidequests, you need a bit of luck to find that hitchhiker and follow their quest, and not all hitchhikers have achievements tied to them. To me, it seems that all the achievements for the different endings can be done in any playthrough and aren’t luck-based.

I give Keep Driving 4 out of 5 stars.

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This review for Keep Driving was written on 4 February 2025, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 17 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.

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