Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like The Long Drive (2026)
Every game below overlaps with The Long Drive on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: City Car Driving, which both open world, survival, horror, psychological and relaxing.
- The Long Drive is tagged Driving, Open World, Multiplayer, Survival, Automobile Sim, Exploration, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
- 5 are free to download, so you can test the resemblance yourself at no cost.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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City Car Driving
Why it matched: both open world, survival, horror, psychological and relaxing; shares 10 player tags including Simulation, Driving and Automobile Sim; released around the same time (2016).
City Car Driving – realistic car driving simulator, which will help you master the basic skills of the car driving in various traffic conditions, with plunging into the environment most closely resembling the real one.
City Car Driving at a glance Released 2016 Studio Forward Development, Ltd. Player sentiment 83% positive of 36,073 Price $24.99 SimulationDrivingAutomobile SimRealisticRacingFirst-PersonIndiePsychological Horror
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My Summer Car
Why it matched: both open world, survival, horror and psychological; shares 10 player tags including Automobile Sim, Simulation and Driving.
My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.
My Summer Car at a glance Released 2025 Studio Amistech Games Player sentiment 95% positive of 117,158 Price $14.99 Automobile SimSimulationDrivingSurvivalRealisticFirst-PersonRacingEarly Access
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BLOCKADE
Why it matched: both open world, survival, horror, psychological and relaxing; shares 8 player tags including Shooter, Indie and First-Person; released around the same time (2019).
BLOCKADE Classic! First Person Shooter in an editable procedural cubic world. A large arsenal of weapons, 4 teams at the same time and up to 32 players on one map. A large number of game modes!
BLOCKADE at a glance Released 2019 Studio Novalink Player sentiment 75% positive of 11,533 Price Free ShooterIndieFirst-PersonPsychological HorrorEarly AccessSurvivalCasualHorror
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Metro Exodus
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival, horror and psychological; shares 7 player tags including Post-apocalyptic, First-Person and Horror; released around the same time (2020).
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
Metro Exodus at a glance Released 2020 Studio 4A Games Player sentiment 90% positive of 135,440 Price $29.99 Post-apocalypticFirst-PersonHorrorSurvivalShooterExplorationPsychological Horror
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KUBOOM
Why it matched: both open world, survival, horror, psychological and relaxing; shares 7 player tags including Shooter, First-Person and Psychological Horror; released around the same time (2016).
Cross-platform hurricane online 3D Shooter
KUBOOM at a glance Released 2016 Studio nobodyshot Player sentiment 64% positive of 4,563 Price Free ShooterFirst-PersonPsychological HorrorIndieCasualSurvivalHorror
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Infestation: Survivor Stories 2020
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival, horror and relaxing; shares 7 player tags including Survival, Indie and Simulation.
Infestation is a Survival Horror MMO that immerses players in a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world in which a viral outbreak has decimated the human population leaving in its wake, a nightmare of epic proportion.
Infestation: Survivor Stories 2020 at a glance Released Not recorded Studio Fredaikis AB Player sentiment 42% positive of 25,385 Price Free SurvivalIndieSimulationHorrorPost-apocalypticShooterCasual
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Professional Fishing
Why it matched: both open world, horror, psychological and relaxing; shares 7 player tags including Simulation, Casual and Realistic; released around the same time (2018).
Are you falling asleep with a rod? Never again! Professional Fishing will never let you fall asleep! Play an amazing fishing simulator and feel like a real angler! Create your own fishing club and compete with others!
Professional Fishing at a glance Released 2018 Studio MasterCode Player sentiment 76% positive of 4,260 Price Free SimulationCasualRealisticFirst-PersonIndieExplorationPsychological Horror
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Backrooms: Escape Together
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and relaxing; shares 7 player tags including Horror, Psychological Horror and Early Access; released around the same time (2022).
A visually lifelike co-op horror game for 1-6 people. Journey through 11 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.
Backrooms: Escape Together at a glance Released 2022 Studio Triiodide Studios Player sentiment 89% positive of 48,808 Price $9.99 HorrorPsychological HorrorEarly AccessRealisticFirst-PersonCasualExploration
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Chernobylite Complete Edition
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, survival and horror; shares 8 player tags including Post-apocalyptic, Survival and Horror; released around the same time (2021).
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
Chernobylite Complete Edition at a glance Released 2021 Studio The Farm 51 Player sentiment 82% positive of 15,553 Price $29.99 Post-apocalypticSurvivalHorrorFirst-PersonExplorationSimulationRealisticIndie
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We Happy Few
Why it matched: both open world, survival, horror and psychological; shares 7 player tags including Survival, First-Person and Indie; released around the same time (2018).
From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.
We Happy Few at a glance Released 2018 Studio Compulsion Games Player sentiment 77% positive of 13,772 Price $59.99 SurvivalFirst-PersonIndiePsychological HorrorHorrorExplorationEarly Access
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Just Survive
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival and horror; shares 7 player tags including Survival, Post-apocalyptic and Shooter; released around the same time (2015).
Just Survive is a post-apocalyptic survival game that immerses you in a world where humanity is fighting to take back control from the zombie hordes.
Just Survive at a glance Released 2015 Studio Daybreak Game Company Player sentiment 59% positive of 76,763 Price Not listed SurvivalPost-apocalypticShooterExplorationHorrorEarly AccessSimulation
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The Forest
Why it matched: both open world, survival and horror; shares 8 player tags including Survival, Horror and First-Person; released around the same time (2018).
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
The Forest at a glance Released 2018 Studio Endnight Games Player sentiment 96% positive of 680,814 Price $19.99 SurvivalHorrorFirst-PersonExplorationSimulationRealisticIndieEarly Access
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My Time at Portia
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival and relaxing; shares 6 player tags including Simulation, Casual and Indie; released around the same time (2019).
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
My Time at Portia at a glance Released 2019 Studio Pathea Games Player sentiment 91% positive of 44,284 Price $29.99 SimulationCasualIndieExplorationSurvivalPost-apocalyptic
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Chinese Parents
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and relaxing; shares 6 player tags including Psychological Horror, Simulation and Casual; released around the same time (2018).
In this casual sim set in China, you step into the shoes of an average kid from birth towards the end of your high school. Study hard, have fun, make friends and face your ultimate challenge, the “Gaokao”. What will your life be after that? And when you have a child, will you be a Tiger Parent?
Chinese Parents at a glance Released 2018 Studio 墨鱼玩游戏 Player sentiment 91% positive of 27,000 Price $9.99 Psychological HorrorSimulationCasualIndieHorrorSurvival
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No More Room in Hell
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival and horror; shares 7 player tags including Survival, Horror and First-Person.
The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.
No More Room in Hell at a glance Released 2013 Studio No More Room in Hell Team Player sentiment 90% positive of 76,511 Price Free SurvivalHorrorFirst-PersonShooterPost-apocalypticRealisticIndie
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Escape the Backrooms
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and relaxing; shares 7 player tags including Horror, Psychological Horror and First-Person.
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Escape the Backrooms at a glance Released 2025 Studio Fancy Games Player sentiment 90% positive of 163,819 Price $9.99 HorrorPsychological HorrorFirst-PersonExplorationIndieEarly AccessCasual
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ZERO Sievert
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival and horror; shares 7 player tags including Survival, Post-apocalyptic and Shooter.
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
ZERO Sievert at a glance Released 2024 Studio CABO Studio Player sentiment 85% positive of 15,428 Price $19.99 SurvivalPost-apocalypticShooterIndieExplorationSimulationEarly Access
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FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and relaxing; shares 6 player tags including Horror, First-Person and Psychological Horror; released around the same time (2019).
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Experience the horror in flat (non-VR) mode or VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported. A VR Headset is NOT required to play.
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED at a glance Released 2019 Studio Steel Wool Studios Player sentiment 96% positive of 13,118 Price $29.99 HorrorFirst-PersonPsychological HorrorSurvivalCasualIndie
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Project Zomboid
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival and horror; shares 6 player tags including Survival, Post-apocalyptic and Indie.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Project Zomboid at a glance Released 2013 Studio The Indie Stone Player sentiment 94% positive of 476,732 Price $24.99 SurvivalPost-apocalypticIndieSimulationRealisticEarly Access
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Arizona Sunshine VR Legacy
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival and horror; shares 6 player tags including Horror, Survival and Shooter; released around the same time (2016).
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Arizona Sunshine VR Legacy at a glance Released 2016 Studio Vertigo Games Player sentiment 79% positive of 9,302 Price $14.99 HorrorSurvivalShooterFirst-PersonIndiePost-apocalyptic
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DayZ
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival and horror; shares 6 player tags including Survival, Post-apocalyptic and Shooter; released around the same time (2018).
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
DayZ at a glance Released 2018 Studio Bohemia Interactive Player sentiment 78% positive of 468,392 Price $24.99 SurvivalPost-apocalypticShooterHorrorFirst-PersonSimulation
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State of Decay
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival and horror; shares 6 player tags including Survival, Post-apocalyptic and Simulation.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
State of Decay at a glance Released 2013 Studio Undead Labs Player sentiment 85% positive of 17,480 Price Not listed SurvivalPost-apocalypticSimulationExplorationHorrorIndie
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Fallout 76
Why it matched: both post-apocalyptic, open world, survival and horror; shares 6 player tags including Post-apocalyptic, Survival and Shooter; released around the same time (2018).
Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.
Fallout 76 at a glance Released 2018 Studio Bethesda Game Studios Player sentiment 72% positive of 140,429 Price $39.99 Post-apocalypticSurvivalShooterHorrorExplorationEarly Access
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Kholat
Why it matched: both open world, survival, horror and psychological; shares 6 player tags including Horror, Psychological Horror and Indie; released around the same time (2015).
The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.
Kholat at a glance Released 2015 Studio IMGN.PRO Player sentiment 66% positive of 6,913 Price $19.99 HorrorPsychological HorrorIndieFirst-PersonExplorationSurvival
Common questions
What game is most like The Long Drive?
City Car Driving, on the evidence we have. It both open world, survival, horror, psychological and relaxing. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to The Long Drive" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with The Long Drive. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.