#DRIVE Rally Steam Charts & Stats

Hey lads! Here’s a short review of the game. I saw great potential in Drive Rally due to its super low entry barrier. Playing Trackmania all the time taught me to truly appreciate games with an “easy to learn, hard to master” gameplay loop. If you enjoy competing against yourself (and a couple of enemies and their ghosts) - this is a great pick for you! Pros: Driving feels catchy. It’s accessible, mistakes aren’t too punishing, the championship bots aren’t too tough, and overall it feels satisfying. Beautiful locations. The low-poly style is charming, and the sun/snow/desert effects are absolutely stunning. Simply lovely. Pilots-wingman (don't know how to name them properly :D). Their voice lines are pretty fun - for example, “You gave a kiss to the ground” when you crash into something. While the lines are a bit repetitive, they didn’t bother me much, especially since your co-driver changes throughout the championship. “Easy to learn, hard to master.” Like I mentioned, you’re not only racing against AI times but also against other players’ ghosts. That adds motivation to master the tracks you love. Personally, I didn’t enjoy the Desert biome much (too many cuts), but I loved competing in the Snow biome, which sticks to track limits. Exploration and customization. Customization doesn’t affect performance, but the visual options you unlock through progression are fun. Exploration is another big plus - before starting a championship, you can explore the map, learn its layout, and find collectibles you can use as in-car charms. Cons / areas for Improvement (subjective): - 3rd person POV camera. I know most rally players prefer 1st person, but I use 3rd by default. Some cars block the view too much, and I’d love to see an additional camera mode (further back, maybe) added to the current one. - Only 12 leaderboard spots per track. If you’re not in the top 12, you’ll always show up as “13+” which feels a bit frustrating. I’d love to see a full leaderboard or at least your exact position if you're outside the top 12. - Single car type on leaderboard. When I finish a map in championship mode (where the car is pre-selected), I sometimes see the top players used different cars. I’m not sure why - maybe they played it in quick play? Either way, I’d prefer to see separate leaderboards for championship vs. quick race. - Strange ghost starts. Sometimes a ghost opponent launches off the line like a rocket (hello, crazy frog). I assume that’s due to manual gear shifting. Would be cool to see gear type (manual/auto) indicated on the leaderboard. - Ghost opponent logic. Sometimes you're racing against top 12 ghosts, sometimes just the #1 (hello again, traveler). Not sure how that’s determined, and it feels a bit random. Would be nice to understand or configure. Overall: The game already has tons of races. If you enjoy competing on equal terms - it’s definitely worth trying! Solid 7.7/10 from me. P.S. One last note about the achievement design - especially the grindy ones. The main game content is about 15-20 hours (maybe 200 races total), but the "Complete 1000 races" achievement feels extremely unobtainable. It’s not rewarding and, honestly, feels like a lack of creative challenge design. In the forums, dev mentioned that achievements should reflect dedication and passion, which I respect - but from a “timehunter” perspective, you’re more likely to restart races repeatedly to improve your time rather than finishing every single one. Some tracks are over 4 minutes long! Finishing 1000 races in a ~200-race game feels off, especially when retries don’t count unless completed. Even with future DLC, it seems close to unobtainable. I hope this gets adjusted in future updates. Apart from it, game is really challenging both for casual players and trophyhunters!

This game lets me drive an offroad setup Lambo Countach with an exposed engine and a huge wing. It spins out really easily and it comes in a package with Bruce Lee as a co-driver for some reason. Very cool nonetheless.

This is quite simply a game I want to like. I love the art style but its a hard no on the driving. As a controller user, every single car I tried wanted to oversteer regardless of how hard the gas was on or little I tried to turn. I even turned sensitivity all the way down and still massive oversteer. Hitting apexes doesnt feel right. Maybe Im too used to Forza, but this game just misses the mark. This game slightly expands on the game "Art of Rally" in meaningful places but at the end of the day, driving games should have feel good driving and this does not.

Okay, I'm disapointed; what seemed to be a great concept ended up being released in this sorry state; this game is [i] nowhere near [/i] polished enough to be called a full game. It's just boring racing.. and also: hearing 1 music track over and over is making me wanna puke

I have a lot of issues with this game. The driving is fine, and the visual aesthetic is great. The game is fun when you're actually driving. The menu is buggy and unintuitive. The gamepad glyphs are displayed incorrectly on the loading screen. The customization is buggy, equipping whatever I scroll over instead of whatever I actually select. The co-driver pace notes are bad. They only tell you about a corner and the severity of the corner- nothing like S-curve, crest, caution, don't cut, long, etc- just "left 2" or "right square". No icons for the notes either. The pace notes are also very badly timed, sometimes too late, sometimes too early. In the championships, which is the core game mode, you're [b]forced to use a specific car[/b]. You can not select which car you want to drive. You drive one car for 3 drives, and then are forced to switch to another. If you don't like the car, tough luck. You can visually customize the cars, but you can not access this menu from the championship- you have to back out, go to quick race or free roam, get to the car selection screen (which championship does not have) and [i]then[/i] you can customize your car. Free roam is a neat idea, but there is zero indication where the collectibles are. You just have to drive around the full map and hope you spot them. This is made worse by the fact that [b]you can not rotate the camera[/b] in 3rd person camera views. This isn't such a problem during a race, but in Free Roam when you're meant to be searching for pickups, its an issue. You can only look around in the cockpit view, which obscures much of your vision anyway. I'm inclined to think this is a bug- being unable to rotate the camera in a driving game is ridiculous. Also, the map during free roam will show you where you've been by erasing a sort of "fog-of-war" on so you know which parts of the map you've already explored. This is good, but if you leave the free roam and come back later, it will be reset. Sucks if you didn't get everything the first time. Finally, my game-breaking bug: After playing for an hour, closing the game and returning, [b]my money and car unlocks were reset to zero[/b]. The car I had unlocked in the championship was locked and the customizations reset, meaning I would have to reset my championship and do it again. I'd also earned around $95,000 which was all gone. These sorts of problems and bugs might be acceptable for a newly released game, but not a game that has been in Early Access for months that just had it's 1.0 release. Fixing these problems is the entire point of Early Access. I am very disappointed.

Ignore what people are saying about the handling, Just go into gameplay options and change the controller handling to "smooth ramp" and the cars handle perfectly. It's a wicked Arcade style Rally game, It's so much fun and the graphics are really cool. The stages are awesome and the cars look great. The only little downside is the Co Driver callouts need to be earlier and more often, sometimes they're too late and can also miss out some corners entirely. Another is the sound effects for the cars aren't the best but can't complain too much cos the game is just spectacular. Honestly worth every penny. You won't regret it.

The style and art direction for this game is top notch, but that's about it. While the gameplay itself is fine. There is very clearly a lack of depth to it all. The handling and tracks you race at are simple which is fine, but means that isn't a hook. The championships are just a set of races where you are forced into a specific car to unlock a few parts, switching before you even get a chance to get used to them. Moreso, the events give you money to buy a few cars and parts, though the other vehicles are locked behind the puddle deep championships. This means that the progression is lackluster, you cant race the cars you buy in the mode about progression and said cars within progression are locked in meaning no freedom of choice. All this really leaves is you playing free play races which doesn't lean into any particular reason to keep wanting to continue other than if you love the way the game drives. Without an overhaul of the whole championship mode or some other hook that makes you want to do one race after another, There really is nothing that attracts you to the game other than a nice art style.

Everything about this game is amazing, but one, which happens to be the most important thing: driving. Driving in this game is just bad. It's not realistic, it's not arcade, it's just bad. It's boring and feels weird. Other than that, stylized graphics are amazing and there's A LOT of content. But it didn't manage to make driving fun like BeamNG or Forza do. I can't say the game is bad, but I also see no point in buying a rally game where rallying isn't fun.

This is an amazing game with so much in it, very much in the spirit of other great really indies, but READ THIS FIRST; If you have a controller make sure your 'Steering' and 'Acceleration' are both changed to 'LINEAR' in the Options Menu! This is the sole issue with the steering and acceleration being 'off' that some people are saying.

I just can't recommend this one. Bottom line - this game just isn't fun to play. The driving feels SO bad. Describing the handling as "arcadey" is being too generous, it's essentially mobile game handling. I like the art style but that is just about the only redeeming quality of this game. Engine noise is terrible, co-driver calls turns too late to be useful, lot's of minor bugs, menu navigation isn't intuitive. The early cars are terrible to drive and the later cars are only a little better. Overall just a disappointment. I'm not going to refund, maybe they will be able to save this one.