In a world full of games built around supercars, this one is simply about the joy of driving.
Get behind the wheel of a featherweight city hatchback, a tail-happy rotary coupe, a 15-tonne coach, or an articulated semi hauling a full trailer. Every vehicle is carefully shaped, modelled, and tuned to capture the character of its real-world counterpart.
The handling sits between arcade fun and believable realism — easy to pick up, satisfying to master, and perfect for those moments when you just want to relax, hit the road, and drive.
Not an endless straight, but a connected open world with real junctions, believable traffic, and roads designed to feel like part of a living network.
Drive anything from a one-tonne city car to a 15-tonne touring coach, with every vehicle bringing its own weight, character, and challenges.
The target is roughly 70% arcade and 30% simulation: weighty and responsive, but still governed by believable grip, weight transfer, and tyre behaviour.
Push too hard and the vehicle will slide. Stay within its limits and it will settle naturally. There is no scripted drift button — the way each vehicle behaves comes directly from the underlying physics.
Every vehicle is hand-modelled in a low-poly style, while the roads, junctions, traffic behaviour, vehicle handling, map, visual direction, testing, and overall game design are created and configured by me.
I don't have a background in game programming, so the code is written with the help of Claude, under my direction. I plan every system, define how it should behave, test the results, identify problems, and refine the implementation.
Using AI for the coding lets me spend my limited time where I can contribute the most: designing the game, building its world, creating its vehicles, and bringing the full idea to life.
Traffic isn't placed on rails or given simplified physics. Every AI-controlled vehicle uses the same handling system as the one you're driving — the same weight, grip, suspension, braking distance, and potential to lose control.
So when a box truck cuts you off, it isn't just following a scripted animation. It has real momentum to manage — and may struggle to recover from a bad decision just as much as you would.
Every playable vehicle is built around a single Godot RigidBody3D,
supported by four raycast wheels. Each tyre has a limited amount of friction to work
with — turning, accelerating, and braking all draw from that same supply of grip. Push
beyond what the tyres can provide, and the vehicle begins to slide.
Each tyre has one grip budget, set by its friction coefficient and the load pressing it into the road. Acceleration and braking use part of that budget first; whatever remains is available for cornering.
Floor the throttle halfway through a corner and the rear tyres may run out first — power oversteer. Trail-brake into a turn and the front may let go — understeer. It's a combined-slip system, not separate values faking longitudinal and lateral grip.
Every vehicle is data-defined from its real mass, dimensions, weight distribution, tyre sizes, gear ratios and redline. How each one feels was then measured and tuned — braking force, cornering grip, body roll, turning circle, 0–100 — not simply copied from a spec sheet.
Four independent raycast springs create visible dive under braking, squat under acceleration, and body roll through corners — recalculated every physics frame, so vehicles never sink into the road as speed rises.
Weight shifts between the wheels as the vehicle accelerates, brakes and turns, changing how much grip each tyre has in real time. A tall SUV rolls and pushes through a corner; a low coupe stays flatter and responds more sharply.
Each vehicle runs its actual gear ratios through a load-adaptive automatic. It shifts early while cruising, holds gears toward the redline under full throttle, kicks down when you need more, and respects governed top speeds instead of accelerating forever.
The handbrake locks the rear wheels and sends the vehicle into a controlled, limited slide. In a lightweight car it can be held and steered; in a touring coach it's little more than a brief wiggle. A yaw assist helps keep the vehicle pointing where you steer while the rear steps out.
Steering lock is generous at parking speeds, making big vehicles and tight spaces easy to manage. As speed builds the available angle gradually shrinks; input is applied progressively and the wheel recentres faster than it turns in — stable instead of nervous or twitchy.
Three driving assists sit on top of the raw vehicle physics. Leave them enabled for a planted, forgiving drive, or reduce them to feel more of what the tyres and chassis are doing.
The master stability switch — it enables the spin guard and the automatic countersteer system.
It also gates two helpers: a turn-in assist that reduces high-speed understeer, and an electronic stability system that gradually adds yaw damping when the vehicle begins to slide.
It steps aside while the handbrake is engaged, so deliberate drifts can continue.
Reduces drive force the moment a powered tyre spins beyond its available grip, with throttle and understeer trims on top.
Enabled, power oversteer can't happen. Switch it off and the throttle can push the rear of the vehicle into a slide.
Keeps the brakes just below the point of wheel lock.
It also reduces front braking force as you add steering (cornering brake control), so you can brake heavily and still keep enough grip to steer around what's ahead.
In most driving games, keyboard controls are binary: W is full throttle, S is full brake, and anything calmer means repeatedly tapping the keys.
Infinite Drive treats them more like real pedals.
Press W or S normally and the input builds gradually — letting you pull away smoothly, control your speed, and make precise adjustments. Release the key and the pedal eases back instead of snapping instantly to zero.
Need a more aggressive response? Hold Shift — just as you would to sprint in another game — to use the pedal's full travel immediately. It isn't a boost or extra power; you're simply pressing the accelerator or brake harder.
The gearbox responds to the way you drive, too. Use the pedals gently and it shifts at lower RPM for a smoother, calmer ride. Hold Shift and it holds each gear longer, using more — sometimes all — of the available rev range before shifting.
For longer, steadier drives, hold Left Alt to latch the current pedal position, then use W and S to trim it up or down. This lets you hold a comfortable pace without constantly pressing a key.
Whether you're pushing a car to its limits, carefully positioning a truck, or keeping passengers and cargo comfortable, the controls let you drive with the speed, smoothness, and precision you intended.
A hand-built road network stretches across a populated, signposted island — with changing light and a moving sun bringing the landscape to life.
AI-controlled vehicles appear naturally around you and behave like real road users. They follow lanes, anticipate the traffic ahead, brake for slower vehicles, ease off for bends, and change lanes to overtake.
Each driver gets a randomized personality, so some are more cautious while others are less patient. And every vehicle you meet in traffic is also part of the playable fleet.
Every intersection is read and built by a custom editor tool.
Junctions can use give-way rules, all-way stops, or phased traffic lights — with individual priorities per approach and configurable green-light cycles. Lane connections are generated automatically, so traffic knows how to move correctly through each crossing.
A single moving sun controls the entire atmosphere of the world.
As it approaches the horizon the sunlight warms and gradually fades; the sky and ambient light darken with it, while the moon automatically rises from the opposite direction. During twilight, the horizon glows where day and night meet.
Reverse the semi tractor beneath the front of a trailer and couple them together with the press of a button.
The trailer connects through a working fifth-wheel joint, articulates behind the tractor, and follows within defined jackknife limits. The extra length and weight make every turn, lane change, and reversing manoeuvre more demanding.
Activate the siren and the entire traffic system responds.
Vehicles pull aside, hold back at junctions, and yield the lane as you approach — accompanied by a synthesized siren wail.
Get to know what may become your new favourite place: the island of Infinite Drive.
It doesn't have a name yet, but it already has a personality of its own. Mountains, valleys, and open flatlands shape the landscape, while roads wind naturally around the island in a layout inspired by real-world road networks.
The current map focuses on highways and country roads rather than cities or villages, with occasional stops waiting to be found along the way. It's a world designed around the road itself — a place to explore, learn, and eventually feel at home in.
Eleven drivable vehicles, one trailer. All tuned to closely resemble the real thing — all drivable.
Where the project stands today — what's driving, and what's on the workbench.