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Dead Head Drive

Drive for your life in a city keeps you trapped. Dead Head Drive is a short horror arcade taxi racer set in a nightmare city. Streets twist, routes change, and something is always watching. Drive through shifting routes, chase high scores, and uncover hidden secrets.

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Sleepdiver
Publisher
ABSYNTH
Release
June 14, 2026
49 days ago
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About the Game

Drive for your life in a city that keeps you trapped.

Dead Head Drive is a short horror arcade taxi racer set in a nightmare city. Streets twist, routes change, and something is always watching. Drive through shifting routes, chase high scores, and uncover hidden secrets of the city that wants to trap you.

You’re on the clock, the only thing keeping you together is what you do best: drive fast, push luck, survive.

Key Features:

  • Arcade driving, horror tension – tight controls under constant pressure

  • Score vs survival – escape the city or risk everything for a higher score

  • Shifting city – routes subtly evolve as corruption rises

  • Escalating corruption system – the deeper you go, the worse it gets

  • Short, replayable experience – built for “one more run”

  • Hidden routes & secrets – knowledge is progression

  • Oppressive nightmare atmosphere – something is always watching

  • Visual corruption system – the city distorts and your car mutates as corruption rises

Gameplay Loop

  • Take fares and pick routes under time pressure

  • Drive, chain risky plays, and build your score

  • Navigate a city that shifts as corruption rises

  • Learn shortcuts, uncover secrets, optimize paths

  • Decide: escape the city… or push for a better run

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