The Long Way Round
A relaxed driving game with no goal. Pick a road and drive forever.
In development for Windows PCAbout the game
No races, no timers, no map to clear. Just the road ahead, the light changing, and the weather rolling in over the hills.
The Long Way Round keeps the driving simple so the effort can go into the world: its atmosphere, its light and its weather. Roads are laid out across the land as you go, following dale floors and lake shores, climbing the edges and running on to the horizon.
Drive it yourself or let cruise mode take the wheel. Watch the day turn to dusk, the headlights come on by themselves, and a front bring rain across the moor.
Roads without end
A road network laid out as you drive, routed through the land by its slopes, rivers and lakes, with walled lanes, junctions and give-way lines.
Living weather
Drifting fronts and volumetric clouds, rain that wets the road, lightning and thunder, fog pooling in the valleys and wind that moves the trees and grass.
Light that changes
A physically based sky and sun, ray-traced lighting and reflections, a night sky, and headlights with a real dipped-beam pattern.
Country that changes
Farmland, pine forest, autumn woodland, moorland, steppe and highlands, or the limestone dales and gritstone edges of a Peak District–like landscape.
A car to sit in
A modelled cabin with working screens: a navigation map, the trip computer, what's playing on your PC, and your Discord voice channel.
Engine sound from first principles
A straight six synthesised from its combustion, with tyres, wind and rain around it. Nothing sampled.
Screenshots
On the road
Discord
Bring your friends along
If Discord is running, your profile shows where you're driving. Allow the game to follow your voice channel, and the car's centre screen shows who's there and who's talking. Mute and deafen from the driver's seat.
Everything happens on your PC: the game talks only to the Discord app on your machine. How the Discord integration works.