About This Game

Slow Roads is a casual driving game designed to capture the zen of a long drive down a scenic road. Zone out and coast along lifelike roads that wind endlessly through procedurally-generated landscapes, with configurable locations, road styles, seasons, weather, and vehicles. Generate a unique world, throw on some music, and just drive.

Endless driving zen

Simply chase the horizon through endless, ever-unique landscapes, with no objectives, challenges, or distractions. Disconnect from stress while you roll through valleys, fields, forests, and coastlines at your own pace.

Infinitely-generated scenic roads

A novel procedural engine generates the landscapes and roads organically, meaning every stretch of road is unique and non-repeating. Choose your preferred style, from casual to winding corners, wide or narrow, and paved or off-road. World generation is seeded, allowing you to revisit any especially nice road you find.

Settings for location, seasons, weathers, and time-of-day

Select a location and instantly switch between scene styles to suit your mood, with options for sun, cloud, snow, and time-of-day. Locations are based on real places - roll through the hills of the Peak District, skim along the California coast, or head Off-World if you really need an escape.

Vehicle customisation and tuning

Choose from a selection of vehicles and optionally customise their style and tuning, with controls over colours, wheels, plates, engines, handling, and more. Vehicles can be electric or combustion-engined, with the latter having options for manual or automatic transmission.

Casual or sim-style driving

Configure the gameplay to your own comforts with controls for steer assist, camera pose, traffic, and more. You can even let the car drive for you, with options for automatic steering, automatic speed control, or full autodrive. The cockpit view can be configured for sim-style driving, with support for controllers and wheels*

*Please note that force feedback is not currently supported by the engine, but may be possible in the future. Check out the demo to verify your device's compatibility.

Just drive...

Slow Roads is designed for minimalist gameplay, and the engine is hyper-optimised for endless, real-time environment generation - less so for crashes or stunts. Stay on the road, slow down a little, and appreciate the simplicity of just seeing what's around the next corner. Having said that, nobody will stop you if you prefer to cruise at 300kph, rally on the winding mountain trails, or drive off a cliff. Maybe there's a kind of zen in that, too.

Steam-exclusive features

If you've played the web version, you may wonder what's going to be different on Steam. In the full game you'll find dozens of exclusive upgrades and features, including:

• Extra locations, starting with the new California coast

• New road styles, including off-road trails

• Vehicle customisation, both for style and physics tuning

• Combustion engines and manual transmissions

• Configurable traffic modes

• A music interface for playing from local files or public radio stations

• Improved scenery detail and high-definition assets

• Improved controller support

• Profiles for saving your progress and settings

• Expanded settings for gameplay and graphics

• Achievements and mementos from your travels

Lastly, buying on Steam enables the web version to remain free and ad-free for everybody while supporting ongoing development. Since initial release in 2022, the web version has never featured ads, microtransactions, or paywalls. It will remain this way and will continue to receive small updates into the future, though will represent a more minimal experience of the game.

Try the demo!

The demo gives a short (distance-limited) sample of the main features in the game, and is the best way to test gameplay and compatibility. Some features are locked or limited in the demo, but all will be instantly available in the full game.

Post-launch roadmap

Slow Roads is a living project, with active development of extra locations, features, and vehicles continuing beyond initial release. Goals for future updates include:

• Rain, dynamic weather effects, and a day/night cycle

• New locations set elsewhere in the world

• Enhanced environmental detail

• A world editor allowing you to alter parameters and generate custom locations

These are intended to be free updates to the core game, added after the initial version 1 release. There are currently no plans to gate future features behind DLCs.

Human-made over 5 years

Slow Roads is a passion project that began as a hobby in 2021. It's a solo-developed project, built with a decade of experience in 3D graphics and creative software development. No AI has been used to generate any code or content in or about the game, and never will be. Textures are hand-drawn, sounds are recorded locally, and all systems are designed and engineered specifically for the unique context of the game. It's my belief that generative AI does not belong in creative endeavours like these.

Please note that procedural generation is not a form of generative AI; the procedures used to generate the world in the game are mathematical functions that have been derived and defined by hand, with direct creative intent.