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2025 · Action · Action-adventure

Dead Static Drive

Xbox console exclusive

Dead Static Drive is a horror survival adventure. You're on the road. The world begins to fall apart in front of you. Your friendships will make every bit of difference as order collapses and the people you meet fight for their own survival.

Released
5 November 2025
Platforms
WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
Genres
ActionAction-adventureAdventureHorrorIndie
Developers
—
Publishers
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Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
ActionHorrorSurvival
Engine
Unreal Engine 4
Country
Australia
Age ratings
ESRB RP
Languages
English
Time to beat
4.5hmain story10hcompletionist

About

Dead Static Drive is a top-down driving meets survival horror video game developed and published by Reuben Games. It was released on Windows and Xbox One on 5 November 2025. The game has a "retro Americana" graphical style, and involves a road trip that takes a turn into Lovecraftian horror.

›Story

You’re roaring an 80s muscle car down the interstate when you see someone snatched by something dreadful in the darkness. You save them, but they pull a gun and steal your car. You walk to a diner. It feels safe.

As night falls, noises in the darkness outside change your mind. The door crashes open. You’re cornered. Now there’s a woman with a baseball bat beating the things over the head.

Can you trust her? Do you really have a choice?

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Story

The main character of the game goes on a road trip to reconnect with their estranged family members, traveling between towns and doing quests in each town where they can freely walk around outside their car. The player realizes that the apocalypse is happening and must fight Lovecraftian monsters and potentially stop the end of the world.

Development

The game's creator, Mike Blackney, started development in 2014, and 6 months later, in 2015, received a $15,000 Unreal Dev Grant for the game's development. Later, he also received funding from the Australian government that enabled him to quit his job as a teacher and continue developing the game, as well as hire an artist and musician. He noted inspiration for the game from the 1981 film The Evil Dead, and horror set in the suburbs and mundane settings, and has described the game as "Grand Theft Cthulhu". Leena van Deventer came onto the project in 2019, as Creative Producer and Writer.

On 27 October 2025, Reuben Games announced via a press release that the game would launch on 5 November 2025.

Reception

Stephanie Chan of VentureBeat called the game "stylish but also evocative". Adam Smith of Rock Paper Shotgun called the graphics "lovely" and the monsters "refreshingly untentacled", commenting that the game could use some folklore that is not just Lovecraft.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows5 November 2025Worldwide
Xbox OneUnreleased
Xbox Series X/SUnreleased

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