DriveWave news & patch notes

Your wheel drops now actually land in your Steam Inventory

• New wheel drops now arrive as real Steam Inventory items, tradable and marketable.
• Wheels you already unlocked in the game are backfilled automatically. Just play with Steam running and your collection will sync to your inventory over your next sessions.
• Ownership is now two way. If you sell or trade a rim away, you lose it in the game too. If you buy one from the Market or a trade, it unlocks in the game without a drop. Selling something actually costs you something, which is what makes buying worth it.

About that 5,000,000 km achievement

Distance counters that quietly stopped counting

Top speed on fully upgraded hypercars

Steam overlay could get stuck open

The wipe button now actually wipes

Smoother speed at a steady typing pace

Also in this update

• Jukebox panel could permanently lock if you closed and reopened it quickly. Fixed.
• Music toolbar eye toggle now works when music is stopped.
• The welcome plate should now always dismiss itself. Yes, really, this time. The whole hide mechanism was rebuilt.
• Purchases (unlockables, walls) are now written to disk instantly, so a crash right after buying can no longer eat the purchase.
• Handling got a global arcade flavor pass, steering and grip are tuned toward a more MC3 feel across the whole fleet.
• First time window drag tutorial actually shows now (it never did).
• Several slow memory leaks on car swaps and environment transitions are gone.
• A batch of save system hardening for rare disk race conditions, plus more reliable achievement and leaderboard syncing.

• Bop Mode - Music: the car bounces to the beat of the track, BPM synced.

• Bop Mode - Key Press: the car pops on every keystroke, and now it does this while you are driving too, not just parked.

• Jukebox playlists now use a heart instead of the old plus and cross. Outline heart means it is not in your playlist, filled heart means it is.

• Settings volume sliders got a fresh look.

• Blacklight District's night sky is a touch darker and color neutral now, less of that warm tint.

• Tolga 🏁

Hey everyone,

Mostly a deep save-system sweep this round. A few of you sent long reports and some screenshots over the past week, and digging into them turned up more than I expected.

Jukebox playlist

Lifetime distance counter

Achievements

• Progress bars sitting half-filled while the achievement said "Completed!" - the UI was reading stale progress from saves where the unlock happened before the progress field was written. Bar now snaps to full on unlock and the unlock path always writes the target value back so it stays consistent.

• Streak100, 500, and 1000 were not unlocking retroactively if your best streak was already past the threshold before those achievements existed. They check on launch now.

• Crash protection if your unlocked-achievement list ever gets out of sync with the inspector list.

Wheel Drops

• The CLAIM button getting stuck on screen and being clickable for duplicate claims is now blocked.

• The button no longer freezes in a non-interactable state if the drop pool happened to be empty at claim time.

• Max pending drops capped at 3 by request. Timer keeps ticking visibly even when you are at the cap, so you can see when the next cycle resets.

Upgrades

• Apex Commission now scales with how long you have sustained high CPM, not just the peak rate.

• Nitrous Kit's burst scales harder at top speed.

• Racing Tires lifts the rapid-typing throttle ceiling instead of only affecting 0-60.

• Flywheel Mass builds a kinetic charge as you type and feeds it into the speed boost chain.

• Aerodynamic Kit grants extra fuel savings while sustained above 50% speed.

• Turbocharger lowers the CPM curve so the top of the band is reachable.

• The Global Auto-Refuel perk is gone, replaced by the per-car Auto-Refuel upgrade. The per-car cost in the first build of this was way too high, so it has been slashed by 50x. Most cars now sit between 88K and 130K credits to enable Auto-Refuel on. If you already owned the old global perk OR you have the DLC, every car you currently own AND every car you buy in the future will have Auto-Refuel granted automatically. You do not lose anything you paid for.

• Idle RPM and Long-Range Tank now scale with the car's top speed, so they actually do something on a BB24.

• Odometer Premium, Rare Plates, and Apex Commission credit multipliers got a meaningful buff at the high end.

Misc

• Leaderboard tabs remember their Global vs Friends filter per board.

• Skydeck car lots no longer collapse typer and driver selection into one car. Setting a driver in Skydeck stays a driver, setting a typer in the garage UI mirrors both.

• Wheel rotation no longer stutters after long uninterrupted sessions, and front and rear rim scales are tracked separately so different-sized wheels spin at the rates they should.

• Mountain Tracks road texture was looking stretched, retiled.

• A pile of defensive checks around save key collisions, achievement crash paths, lifecycle event timing, and cross-platform cloud sync.

• Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series pads still work, more reliably.

• DualShock 4 and DualSense are properly recognized now, including filtering out the constant gyro chatter that used to leak into input.

• Switch Pro Controller is supported through SDL's Nintendo handshake.

• Random generic DirectInput pads should mostly just work, SDL ships with a big community gamepad database.

• Out-of-focus idling (game running in the background while you do something else) now correctly registers analog sticks and triggers, not just buttons.

One heads up for Steam Input users.

The new SDL2 path needs to see your pad directly, so Steam Input has to be off for it. Either set "Disable Steam Input" in the game's controller properties, or turn off Steam Input for that controller type in Steam's global controller settings (Steam, Settings, Controller). The default config falls back to keyboard and mouse emulation, which keeps everything working out of the box if you do not touch anything.

Hey everyone,

• Restart button actually restarts now. It was just quitting the game before, which killed Steam's playtime tracking and any achievement progress mid-session. Relaunches through Steam properly now, session stays continuous.

• Jukebox playlist persists between sessions. Saves were happening in the background but the game would close before the write hit disk. Writes synchronously on quit and pause now, your tracks stick around.

• Wheel Drop timer no longer freezes at "10:50". If you came back with a pending drop waiting, the UI never got the memo, the timer locked up and there was no Claim button. Drop count syncs on load now, button shows up where it should.

• Right-click window drag works after closing the Jukebox or Car Lot screen. You could end up in a state where drag stopped responding, and toggling the drag overlay made it worse by locking the whole UI. The whole chain is sorted.

• The arrow button under the game window matches the panel state. Opening Settings could close the game window but leave the arrow showing "open", forcing a double-click to toggle. Your last choice persists across launches too, so if you closed it, it stays closed.

• Wheel sizing in the garage no longer compounds on itself. Setting rims to 1.2x and pressing Apply a few times used to grow them bigger than the car each press. Apply starts from the original size every time now, and 1.00x actually resets to default.

• Retro filter is pixel perfect at integer window scales. At 1.00x it was throwing those weird moire patterns onto everything because the render target didn't line up with native pixels. It should be cleaned up now.

• WASD no longer triggers the Windows "ding" in Drive or Skydeck mode. A UI button was holding focus when controls activated, so the OS treated the letter keys as invalid input. Focus clears on Drive activation now.

• DJ booth audio stops leaking into the Tune Car screen. Opening Tune Car from the Garage (not from Skydeck) made the music pan left and duck, because the listener ended up in the wrong place during the transition. Fixed, audio stays put no matter which screen you came from.

• Engine volume stops halving and doubling on its own. The slider value never changed but actual loudness shifted with whichever panel was open, so you couldn't tune it properly. Listener stays in a consistent fallback position now, slider value is what you actually hear.

• Numpad keys count with NumLock on. Numpad keystrokes with NumLock enabled now boost your car like any other key, including the operators and the nav block. Applied on macOS and Linux builds too.

- Tolga

Hey everyone,

• First keystroke from Neutral now snaps the throttle to full target. It used to cap at 0.6, throttled by an input-frequency factor that also wanted ramp-up time, basically two systems both saying "not yet"

• Smoothed CPM now respects your instantaneous typing rate, so you don't have to wait 60 seconds for the rolling average to catch up

• Effective CPM thresholds globally lowered ~%35. Full throttle is now reachable at ~87 CPM instead of 250, rapid-tier kicks in at ~3 keys/sec instead of needing chess-clock fingers

• Speed decay between keystrokes loosened. Typing at ~1 key/sec used to dump you straight into the full-decay tier, so coast was eating your acceleration

• Save writes now retry on Windows when the antivirus grabs a temp file mid-write. No more "being used by another process" log spam, no more spurious needsSyncRecovery rebuilds

• Confirming an environment selection no longer closes the panel (you can keep browsing biomes without re-opening it)

• Tweaks in the launch curve at very low speeds so the first 0-60 doesn't get clamped to zero anymore

• If your monitor was shorter than the window the game was trying to draw (most 1080p setups once you scaled the window up), it was getting centered partially above your screen — title bar in negative territory, the rest clipped by the top edge. Steam showed it running, the taskbar showed the icon, there was just nothing to click on.

• The window now clamps to your actual monitor before it picks a position.

• If your saved scale is too big for the current monitor, the game steps down to the largest scale that actually fits — for this session only. Plug back into your bigger display and your preferred scale comes back.

• Players from a couple of patches ago: your saved window position is preserved. I renamed the keys that stored it and forgot to migrate the old ones (whoops). That happens quietly on first launch now, which means the game no longer falls back to a default position that doesn't fit.

• Ctrl+R still resets the window to the center if you've been fighting it.

• All of those writes now go through the background save thread the game already had running.

• Same data safety — the cache is updated instantly, the disk write just doesn't block your frame anymore.

• Quit and app-close paths still write synchronously so nothing gets lost when you close the game.

• The first-time-drag tutorial was writing directly to disk instead of going through the save wrapper. Rare corruption risk if the timing lined up badly — no reports of it happening, but it's cleaner now.

• Car color and vinyl finally respect the saved index. Your previously-picked paint is already there, it just couldn't come out to play.

• Rim and wheel customization now applies in driving mode (it was being destroyed on spawn and never rebuilt).

• Rims and wheels also sync to cars parked in car lots, so the ones around the map match what you own.

• Garage UI re-syncs when another context changes a color/vinyl, no more stale "5/10" text.

• New Initial D / Underground 2 style chase camera. Smoother peek on turns, no more discrete snap when the yaw crosses a threshold.

• Visual weight transfer. Cars dive under braking and squat under throttle, scaled to how fast the car actually is.

• Launch grace for slow cars. Weaker cars (0-60 around 25s) get a small boost off the line so they feel responsive instead of glued.

• 4th-gear jerk at ~160 km/h is gone. The sim was briefly telling the car it was going backwards when yaw wobbled, and the brake pedal would slam full for a single frame. Fixed.

• Shift "throttle cut" feel smoothed. The engine was dipping on every upshift because releaseGasPedalAtShifting was on. Now it's a soft dip at 0.08s, your brain reads it as a shift instead of a lift.

• Car audio slider is actually unified now. Electric cars had their wind hardcoded to 1.0 and their non-engine sounds scaled to the engine, which meant the slider did almost nothing on EVs and muted everything on ICE cars. One slider, one behavior, all cars.

• BGM double-trigger stutter fixed (manual crossfade and Unity's auto-loop were fighting).

• Engine volume no longer double-tweens on every slider drag.

• Added a 0-100 km/h / 0-60 mph timer for typing-mode cars. Auto-switches to your chosen unit. Just press accelerate, it'll track the rest.

• Lot save order swapped. Lot is persisted before currency is spent, so if the game crashes in the micro-window between the two, you get a free lot instead of losing money. Failure mode now favors the player.

• Alt-tabbing no longer double-flushes to disk (pause and focus were both firing).

• Saves now write in the background on a 15-second schedule. No more tiny stutter when something hits the disk.

• Each save file (game, car lots, unlocks, wheels) has its own cache and flush lock. One file going bad can no longer nuke the others.

• If a save file fails to load, we try the backup, then rebuild from the in-memory cache, and if that also fails the file is quarantined (renamed, not deleted, because I'd rather have something to look at later than nothing at all).

• The "playtime stops counting after 60 hours" bug is gone. One bool flag was telling the save "you already did this" forever. Sorry to everyone who hit that.

🏁 10,000 Drivers!

Hey everyone,

Before anything else, DriveWave just hit 10,000 players. Ten thousand people running a little car on their desktop while doing other stuff. That's genuinely wild to me. When I first put this game together I was just making something to keep me company while working on my other projects. The fact that this many people enjoy it too means a lot. Seriously, thank you.

Now, onto the update. This one's been cooking for a bit. For the last couple of days you've probably seen a lot of updates being pushed out and wondered what they are. Here are the notes.

ReFuel System

You can now purchase Auto Refuel without needing the Supporter DLC. It'll set you back 5M Cr. which is a bit steep, but if you're tired of pressing the refuel button every few minutes, it pays for itself pretty quickly.

macOS Support

DriveWave now has proper native macOS input support. Typing detection, controller input, and accessibility permissions are all handled natively instead of through workarounds. If you're on a Mac, you can now open up DriveWave and continue where you left off!

Save System Overhaul

Moved the entire save system to a new backend. Your existing save data will be migrated automatically on first launch, you don't need to do anything. This makes saves more reliable and sets things up properly for future features. Please report any broken saves without breaking me in the process. I've lost my main save while testing.

Cross Platform Cloud Support

Every kilometre you drive is now being tracked properly. Per car, lifetime, all of it. This has been a long time coming and it opens the door for some interesting things down the line. For now, enjoy watching numbers go up. We all love watching numbers go up.

Driving Feel

Spent a good amount of time going through every single drivable car and adjusting physics configs. All 300+ drivable cars received tuning passes. Some felt like shopping trolleys before. They still might, but at least they're better shopping trolleys now. All cars are grocery getters anyway.

Vehicle input has also been reworked for more responsive steering and throttle control.

Other Changes

• Improved engine audio across multiple cars

• UI improvements across garage, showroom, and settings screens

• Updated Discord Rich Presence

• Environment and traffic system tweaks

• Sound effects added to various UI interactions

• Improved window management and idle behaviour

• Bug fixes and general stability improvements

As always, if something feels off or broken, let me know. I read everything.

Last thing. New game cooking. It's an idle widget where you run a termination facility in the afterlife. Crematoriums, acid vats, the works. Desktop companion game, just like DriveWave, but slightly more unhinged. Wishlist Head Office!

Here's to the next 10,000. See you on the road. - Tolga

Hey drivers!

If you enjoy running DriveWave alongside your daily routine, you might like what I have been working on. Two new Dumbbell Games titles are part of Steam Next Fest February 2026 and both demos are live right now.

Wartide

Tower defense meets idle game on your desktop. Enemies attack your base from all directions. Deploy infantry, armor, and air support to hold the line while you work or browse. Upgrade between waves, unlock permanent bonuses, and let the battle run in the background.

Coin Harvest

Idle coin collector that sits on your desktop. Robotic arms grab coins, you unlock islands and discover new powers to push further. Every island brings new abilities, every upgrade opens new strategies.

Both are built with the same idea behind DriveWave. Small window, low footprint, designed to play alongside whatever else you have going on. Demos are available until March 2.

Thank you for playing DriveWave. More updates coming soon.

See you soon!

Hey everyone,

Quick rundown of what’s new:

• Added Handbrake. It becomes available under 10 km/h (mph) and brings the car to a full stop. While it’s active, the car won’t react to typing. Perfect for just sitting back and admiring the curves. (This may or may not be a hint at a future upgrade.)

• Extended Bop Mode. When used together with the handbrake, the car now bops instead of gaining speed.

• Fixed several bugs.

• As always, made small tweaks to Drive Mode.

Cheers, Tolga

Hey everyone! You could've seen this coming from miles away

Why's this dev taking the piss? I've been standing here for thirty mins waiting for this update to drop.

v1.4.9 is here.

Spent fifteen minutes scrolling through settings and found Bop Mode. Turn it on. Trust me.

The dealer finally pulled up, overtaking cars like Max did Lewis. I said mate, slow down. He said "Nah man, I'm not complaining, I've been sat at home just gaming." Fair enough.

What's new:

• Bop Mode. Find it in Settings

• Way easier car controls. Even your nan could drift

• Bug fixes and improvements

Cheers - Tolga

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've touched DriveWave, so here's a quick update. Cars should now feel much more responsive and easier to handle overall. I also made a handful of smaller tweaks under the hood, but I didn't keep proper notes so I'll spare you the guesswork. In other news, I've been busy! I've released two new games in a similar spirit to DriveWave. Wartide Demo is available and Coin Harvest Demo is coming up really soon. Also working on Metal Thunder and going to share some exciting news about it before long! Alright, time to dive back into Metal Thunder. Plenty more to come on that front. See you around! - Tolga

Hey everyone! A bit of a different announcement today, one of my closest friends just released his first game! Some of you might've already spotted it in the in-game banners. I've been playing it for a couple of days now (being friends with devs has its perks) and some of the interactions genuinely had me dying laughing. Go check it out, and if you like what you see, there's a nice 10% launch discount running right now!

In other news, I'm closing in on the 1.0 release for Metal Thunder, so if you want to check that out too, here it is! Release date announcement coming real soon!

After Metal Thunder 1.0, my focus will shift to Blitzpoint. The page isn't 100% ready yet, but you can still check it out and wishlist it if you're interested, every single wishlist helps!

DriveWave is also my passion project and I have no plans to stop working on it. There may be some quieter periods when the game is in a good state and mostly bug-free, but updates will keep coming. It's designed to be a companion game you can have open while working, and I genuinely enjoy developing it. I always have it open in the background while I'm working on my other games See you around.

- Tolga

Hey everyone,

It’s been a while since the last update. Most of my time is going into getting Metal Thunder ready, but that doesn’t mean DriveWave has been ignored. With this update, I can finally say DriveWave is in a genuinely solid spot in terms of UX and general feel.

You can actually drive the cars now. Literally.

There are three tracks/maps in the game where you can take any unlocked car out for a spin. I’ve also tweaked engine sounds so each car feels a bit more true to itself. Treat driving as a BETA, though. I tested things, but not in a “professional QA” sense, so expectations should be adjusted accordingly. Still, some cars feel surprisingly good already. You can also drive with controllers.

Now, what is a patch without QoL tweaks and bug fixes I genuinely don’t know. I’ve never seen one.

Here’s the rest:

• Adjusted car engine sounds to be more believable and better matched to each car

• Faster UI resizing so you don’t have to dive into settings anymore - Ctrl + Shift + Arrow (Left for downscale - Right for upscale) (Thank you to ACCESS_DENIIED)

• Added a toggle to hide or show music controls on the game window (default is visible) (Thank you to ACCESS_DENIIED)

• Added the ability to select cars directly from the Skydeck for both driving and typing Thank you to MrEniana on the DriveWave Discord for pointing this out and being the champ he is for giving lots of QoL feature suggestions

• Fixed an issue where the Environment menu sometimes refused to appear after the first click

• Fixed an issue where Steam Overlay gets stuck - (Thank you to Clxmj)

• Adjusted Car Lot tooltips for better layout and readability

I changed a few more small things, but I didn’t keep notes, so that’s all I can confidently list.

Back to Metal Thunder before it gets review-bombed into dust for campaign delays.

See you around. - Tolga

Hey everyone,

Let’s get straight to it. Hope you enjoy this update as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

Symphony of Valves

Cars finally know how to sing. All non-electric models now have proper engine sounds, each with its own audio profile tuned for tone, pitch, and overall feel.

Electric cars are still quiet. I could add “realistic” electric audio, but nobody wants to drive around listening to a cordless vacuum, so I skipped that for now. As always, feedback is welcome. Salute to all my petrolheads. 🫡

Music

Around 100 new soundtrack tracks have been added across multiple genres. I genuinely lost count somewhere along the way. The jukebox now offers a much wider range for building playlists.

I plan to add environmental playlists in the future to help set the mood automatically, but for now I’m leaving full control to you.

Quality of Life

Supporter DLC owners no longer need to press the refuel button. (Chat, does this qualify as P2W?) Skydeck already supported color and vinyl switching, but it didn’t have an on-screen prompt. That prompt has now been added. Thanks to MrEniena on Discord for pointing it out.

Fixes

A bug that caused post-processing and retro effects to stop working on certain windows has been fixed. Restarting the game from the menu was also broken; it now works properly. Thanks again to MrEniena and Wightie for reporting both issues.

Notes

Multiple players are experiencing cloud-related problems on different machines. I’m currently investigating the cause. Thanks to Luster for flagging the issue. Thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/3942610/discussions/0/802331493180425987

See you on the road. – Tolga

Hey everyone,

This update is a bigger one. It adds full background music support, introduces the Skydeck environment, and includes a long list of improvements across UI, UX, and overall feel.

New Features Meet Skydeck!

The new Skydeck is a rooftop parking area with an underground party vibe. It is a place where you can display up to 38 of your favorite cars and walk around between them.

Lots can be purchased, cars can be placed on display, and the whole area is designed as a small social showroom for your collection. Color cycling for displayed cars is supported with the number keys 1 and 2, and racing cars can change their vinyls with the number keys 3 and 4. Skydeck adds a reason to revisit your collection and gives a new way to appreciate the cars you have unlocked so far.

Background Music and Jukebox System

DriveWave now has background music. You can enable it through the new jukebox menu and build your own playlist from a library of 142 tracks. The tracks cover several genres, and while most of them are AI-generated, the quality is high and fits the driving atmosphere extremely well. You can add and remove songs freely, reorder your playlist, and use crossfade, shuffle, and repeat to control how the music flows while your car heads off into the distance. This feature is meant to make the whole experience feel more alive, especially for long sessions.

UI and UX Improvements

A large set of UI and UX updates were made to make the game more consistent and smoother to interact with. Menu transitions are cleaner, scrolling is more responsive, and most navigation paths now require fewer clicks. Visual clarity has been improved in several screens, including car details, filters, and environment selection. Small layout issues that existed in previous versions have also been addressed.

Gameplay and Balance

A number of cars received multiplier increases to better match their intended performance levels. This affects progression speed for certain car types and should make the collection feel more balanced as a whole.

Additional Changes

The layout of the main menu has been updated to make space for the Skydeck button. Leaderboards and Achievements have been moved to a new location that keeps them accessible without crowding the interface. General stability improvements were made across many systems to reduce small hiccups during long sessions.

These are huge changes for the game and I had to revamp several systems to accomodate these features, so bugs will be as of nature. I'm all ears to any feedback and bug reports! See you on the road. – Tolga

Hey everyone,

This update addresses several issues you've reported and adds some handy improvements to make your DriveWave experience smoother.

Quality of Life

• Added a price filter to help you find cars within your budget (Thanks to Himitsu 🎆)

• The game now remembers which environment you were last in and loads it on startup (Thanks to Himitsu 🎆)

• Improved window dragging – you can now right-click anywhere in the window to move it around your monitor. Also added alignment guidelines and subtle snapping when dragging the window for easier positioning. You can move window anywhere by Mouse Right Click rather than just dragging the window by the speedometer

General Fixes

• Fixed the always-on-top setting not working properly – the game will no longer force itself to stay in the foreground (Thanks to Lord Damso || ピッコリノ ペルビアノ) (Issue => https://steamcommunity.com/app/3942610/discussions/0/667222425710368194)

• Fixed global leaderboards only showing local player data – all categories now display properly (Thanks to Mickstache & CrescendoFuri) (Issue => https://steamcommunity.com/app/3942610/discussions/0/667222425710359751)

See you on the road.

– Tolga

Hey everyone,

This update brings a wave of new content and improvements to keep your rides fresh and your screens smoother than ever.

New Content

• 136 new cars added to the collection, including Racing, Rally, and Police cars.

• Racing cars now feature vinyl options for extra style.

• Expanded color variety across many existing cars.

Quality of Life

• New Car List UI that lets you browse every car and jump to it instantly.

• Direct Environment Access to switch to any unlocked location without waiting for auto-change.

• Refined UI for a smoother, faster, and more responsive experience.

• Improved window handling so dragging and resizing feel seamless.

General Fixes

• Fixed wheel issues on certain cars, especially some Kizaru FSX variants. Thanks to Villanovasoft on Discord for pointing it out.

• Additional UI performance improvements for better stability.

Additional Notes

• Some cars have been renamed or corrected for better accuracy, which might affect existing saves.

• Achievements now recheck at the start of the game to resolve any missed unlocks

DriveWave is something I keep running on my PC all the time. I originally made it to keep me company while working on my other games, and my kids were a big part of that. They picked most of the initial cars themselves and helped shape the overall style and idle camera angles.

I enjoy tweaking DriveWave whenever I get the chance, so it keeps evolving bit by bit. That’s also why I don’t always post changelogs right away.

My main focus right now is Metal Thunder v1.0, but DriveWave will continue to get small, steady updates in the background. See you on the road.

– Tolga

DriveWave — Full Launch is Here

Hey everyone,

Thank you all for trying the DriveWave demo during Steam Next Fest. Your feedback and support have meant a lot. It’s finally time to launch the game I made over the summer with my son as a small side project and to get myself back into the flow of making games again alongside Metal Thunder.

What’s New

• Full release with 25+ supported languages

• Demo progression will not carry over

• Supporter DLC that instantly unlocks all cars

• Lots of achievements to earn

• More locations to explore

• Over 184 cars to collect and drive

• New rims and customization options

• Quality of life improvements across the board

Have fun with the full version, and if you have suggestions or questions, come hang out in our Discord.

Day 1 Patch Notes

• Fixed the 400 km/h issue. Some cars can now go beyond 400 km/h

• Fixed how environments are handled. They now change properly

• Added an FPS Limiter

• Improved multi-monitor window handling for smoother dragging

• Added a reset hotkey (CTRL + R) if your window gets lost

Thank you again for all the support. This little side project turned into something really special. See you on the road. - Tolga

Hey everyone! I’m beyond excited to share that the DriveWave Demo is now live on Steam!

Turn your everyday typing into a neon road trip, every keystroke powers your car across glowing deserts, midnight forests, and endless highways. Whether you’re writing, working, or just browsing, your car will keep cruising.

What’s Inside the Demo:

• 🌌 Neon Environments – Desert, Forest, City & more

• 🚗 Collect & Customize – Unlock cars, wheels, colors

• ⏫ Productivity Boost – Play while doing literally anything else

• 🎶 Chill Vibes – Just vibes, all the way

This is just the first taste, DriveWave will launch as a Free-to-Play game soon, and I’ve got plenty more content, upgrades, and surprises lined up for release. Demo has only 30 cars now but full release will have more than 175 cars & 15+ biomes so be sure to stick around!

How You Can Help ❤️

• Try the demo and let me know what you think in the Discussions or in Discord

• Share feedback on what you’d love to see in future updates

• Add DriveWave to your Wishlist so you don’t miss launch day!

👉 Play the Demo Now

Thanks for being here at the start of this ride, can’t wait to hear what you all think!

Stay tuned for more updates, and maybe even a few secrets on the neon highway 👀