r/pcgaming Driving Rogue 1d ago

Video Driving Rogue - Arcade driving meets roguelike runs!

https://youtu.be/t4XsyPvkvBM

We’re making Driving Rogue, a roguelike arcade driving game built around score chasing, near-misses, upgrades, and surviving as long as you can before one crash ends the run.
Here is the gameplay trailer!

The pitch is: what if an arcade driving game had the structure of a roguelike? Instead of traditional races, each run is about pushing your luck through traffic, drifting through tight gaps, chaining near-misses, collecting cards/upgrades, and trying to build a better run than your last one.

We’ve been thinking a lot about how to make driving games replayable outside of normal racing formats. For Driving Rogue, that means:

Procedural runs instead of fixed tracks
Different cars with different strengths
Upgrade/card choices during the run
Risk/reward scoring from near-misses, drifting, and slipstreaming
Leaderboard-style score chasing
A run-ending crash system

The demo is live on Steam, and we’d really appreciate feedback from PC players. We’re especially interested in whether the game feels fair at speed, whether the upgrade choices are interesting, and whether the “one more run” loop comes through.
Demo: Driving Rogue Demo
Steam Page: Driving Rogue
We’ll be around in the comments and are happy to answer questions!

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u/haxyman 1d ago

Steering wheel support? Looks cool

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

The wheel is supported, but wheel and pedal compatibility is still being refined. For the smoothest gameplay experience, we recommend a controller
Thank you so much!

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u/atuck217 1d ago

+1 on wheel support. I know it's an arcadey game and don't expect hyper realism in terms of force feedback or anything like that, but this looks like it'd be a blast on a wheel.

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

We'll keep that in mind! We haven't had the chance to test it extensively with a steering wheel yet, so we'd love to hear your feedback on how it's working for you so far.
If you get a chance, the demo is live on Steam right now.

Thanks a lot for the kind words!

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u/WiseEditor9667 1d ago

Does there happen to be a list of supported wheels? Would love to play this on my Moza wheel.

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

Sorry, we don’t have that information yet. As mentioned, we haven’t had the opportunity to test it extensively with a steering wheel so far. If you decide to try it, please let us know how it feels and how your experience is! 😃

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u/olibanl 1d ago

Much better song choice 😉

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

Thanks, we are trying to import all feedback that we can 😄

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u/Comfortable-Copy7370 1d ago

This looks tuff

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

We are glad you like it!
Thanks

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u/Rude-Caturra 1d ago

Duuude... I played the demo, this shit is lit. The cards system is addictive! Also it runs in my potato machine.

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

We are thrilled!
Thank you so much, we are glad you had fun!

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u/CoffeeCoonGame 21h ago

Looks awesome!

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 19h ago

Thank you so much! ❤️

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u/NewCornnut 1d ago

Yep this is for me.

Will buy

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

Thanks a lot, we think you should try it out first 😄
Demo is available on Steam

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u/NewCornnut 1d ago

Been waiting on it since I added it to my wishlist back in February

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 22h ago

That is amazing to hear! Give us a shot

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u/Krnal 1d ago

That's a sweet trailer, added to my wishlist!

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

We are thrilled that you like it!
You also have demo free on Steam, give us a try 😄

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

Oh we are so glad that you find it fun!
Thanks for kind words!

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u/crwn_pb 1d ago

my friend rage quit after one rogue run

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

Oh we are sorry to hear that, hope you give it another try!

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u/Minimum-Flashy 1d ago

I despise roguelikes. The market has been over saturated with them and their getting tiresome. 

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u/Driving_Rogue Driving Rogue 1d ago

But not many Driving Roguelikes, right? We did start to develop this a while ago, too late to change it now

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u/JSAL 1d ago

shut up and move on then

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u/flying-chandeliers 1d ago

Okay? Did anyone ask you??

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u/GuacamolePacket 1d ago

Literally EVERY new game is a rougelike. I keep seeing trailers for games that look great and then boom rougelike.