Drive With Friends

⚠️ This is an early demo. The game is still in active development. Some things are unfinished and may change or break. It's public so you can play it and tell me what you think.

Believable cars, unbelievable playgrounds.

Drive With Friends is a stylized off-road rally built around physics-based driving. Each stage is a short point-to-point run over open terrain — you learn the route, find the fast line, get through one big physics obstacle, and sprint to the finish. Roll the car and you respawn at the last checkpoint right away, so you're never far from another go.

A run takes about 1–4 minutes, and the fun is in repeating it: knowing where to brake, where to commit, and where you lost the half-second keeping you off Gold.

In this demo now

• Physics-based vehicle handling: analogue clutch, limited-slip diffs, anti-roll bars, ABS, curve-based tyre grip. Tarmac, dirt and grass all drive differently.
• A fleet of vehicles: from a nimble hatchback to a monster truck, each with its own handling and its own records.
• Online multiplayer for up to 8: host or browse games, pick your car in the lobby, and race everyone through the same stage.
• Online leaderboards and ranking: climb the ladder as you beat other players' times, per stage and per vehicle.
• Time attack for chasing clean laps solo.
• Garage, customisation and shop: tweak and pick your car.
• Driving assists and full control settings: keyboard, gamepad or wheel.

The bigger plan

The demo is the driving core. The direction after 1.0 is an open world with a career: one large map you can drive freely, with job missions deliveries, recoveries, timed contracts, hauling that you take on for money, unlock new vehicles and upgrades, and build up a working career at your own pace. The rally stages and stage builder stay; the open world is the frame around them.

Not all of the career/open-world plan is in the demo yet, it's where the game is heading.

Feedback welcome

Play a few stages and tell me what works and what doesn't handling, bugs, ideas. That's what this demo is for.

Assets

This build uses a mix of free and paid third-party assets from itch.io and elsewhere, plus my own work. Full credits will come with the 1.0 release.

Pricing

The demo is free during development. When the game reaches 1.0 it will become paid the online multiplayer needs servers, and a one-time purchase is what keeps them running. If you're playing the free demo now, thanks for being early.

Support

If you like it and want to help, a coffee goes a long way. It changes nothing in-game, but it's real motivation to keep making the game better.