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Deadwood Drive

Deadwood Drive is a low-poly open-world adventure set in a mountain town with a dark secret. With an old trusty truck and unbelievable tools, you'll run a logging business by day - and dismantle a mind-control conspiracy by night.

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March 31, 2026
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About the Game

TAKE A DRIVE

Deadwood Drive is a low-poly open-world adventure set in a mountain town with a dark secret. With an old trusty truck and unbelievable tools, you'll run a logging business by day - and dismantle a mind-control conspiracy by night.

A TOWN WITH HISTORY

Deadwood is old. Older than anyone can really account for. The trees go back further than the records, and out in those woods, something pulses.

For a time, one man understood it better than anyone. Thomas Sterling — inventor, recluse, genius — built a dozen world-changing technologies from a lab deep in the Deadwood forest. Then, just as he was about to unveil his greatest discovery yet, he vanished without a trace.

No announcement. No goodbye. No body.

SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE

In Sterling's absence, Mayor Loomis arrived — all smiles and promises. The Luminex Factory followed. New phone lines. Better TV. High-speed internet. Infrastructure the town had waited years for, offered up for free.

The people of Deadwood called it progress.

They should have asked why.

Behind the Factory walls, Loomis isn't building a better town. He's building something far more dangerous — a signal network designed to fold the minds of Deadwood's citizens into a single, obedient will. The towers are already up. The equipment is already running. And most of the town doesn't even know it's happening.

YOUR ROLE

Your distant relative Ray knew the truth. He and Sterling had a plan — tools, a machine, a mission. Then Ray passed, and the plan died with him.

Now you've inherited the business. And the responsibility.

Under the cover of routine arborist work, you'll navigate Deadwood's tension-filled streets, take jobs from the very Mayor you're working to defeat, and use Sterling's extraordinary inventions to destroy the Factory's towers one by one. Each tower you bring down weakens the signal. Each job gets harder to keep quiet.

The town is watching. So is Loomis.

The trees aren't the only things being cleared in Deadwood.

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FEATURES

  • Open-world low-poly driving and exploration across Deadwood and its surrounding wilderness

  • Wield Sterling's other-worldly inventions as both work tools and weapons

  • Run a real logging business as your cover while executing a covert mission

  • A cast of townspeople with their own loyalties, secrets, and motives

  • Uncover the mystery of the Pulse, Sterling's disappearance, and what the Factory is really after