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PlayTogether Studio, Pebbles Games · Published by Bonus Stage Publishing · Official site ↗
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Explore and survive in the Arctic, where your car is the only thing keeping you alive. Arctic Drive is a 1–4 player co-op survival sim set in a procedurally generated winter wilderness. Find supplies, repair your rig, and haul it all onwards with only one hope left: there must be safety out there.
Adventure, Simulation, Racing · 2026 · More free games
Navigate treacherous Arctic terrain in Arctic Drive, a 2026 co-op survival sim by PlayTogether Studio. Race and repair your vehicle while seeking safety in a vast, icy landscape.
About this game
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About the Game
The deep silence of the brutal winter embraces you when you wake up one morning in your cabin. There's no food anymore. A half-empty can of soda in the fridge. A beaten up old car in your garage with all the parts lying around it, and the cold starts to wrap around you, fingers tingling and hunger twisting your stomach around. You know you have to get the car running quickly now and you must leave the warmth of your home. There's no way out but the long and treacherous road into the unknown.
Drive, scavenge, upgrade and survive an Arctic wasteland that is actively trying to freeze and stop you — play solo or with up to 4 players in co-op.
Arctic Drive is a first-person co-op survival sim built around one fragile thing: your car. In this exploration-survival every run generates a fresh stretch of frozen wilderness and drops you into it with a rusted rig, a thin tank of fuel and a long way to go.
The cold kills you slowly, but the icy road kills your car fast, so you better have friends and supplies with you to keep on going. Drive safely onward and keep on gathering items to recycle and turn into upgrades by crafting them.
FEATURES
Procedurally generated Arctic, different every run
Fully simulated damage: chassis and parts deform on impact
Every object is physical: if you can lift it, you can load it
Trailers and RVs you can convert into mobile bases
Hunger, thirst and body temperature to manage
Blizzards, whiteouts and a full day-night cycle
Scenarios to complete, or open sandbox
1–4 player online co-op
A LONG ROAD WITH NO MAP
You start with a beat-up car, whatever you can find in the garage, and a road going anywhere and nowhere. On the long drive ahead you will find an odd cabin or gas station that might give you more fuel, an empty cardboard box to recycle later, or nothing but safety from a blizzard. The road narrows, the treeline closes in, and the weather does not care what your plan was. Every mile you drive is a new, big adventure.
LOAD IT UP AND HOPE FOR THE BEST
Every item in the world is a real physical object. Throw jerrycans in the trunk, stack boxes across the back seat, and tow a trailer filled to the brim behind you. But remember that weight slows you down and burns fuel faster, and one tight turn on the road can spread the whole haul across the snow behind you.
But just wait, just around the next hill you just might find a working generator with a recycler and crafting bench hooked up, and you can upgrade your convoy to survive yet another mile, yet another blizzard, yet another crash because your friend had a great idea to engage handbrake at full speed.
The Arctic will not kill you, but your fuel gauge will.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10/11 (64-Bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600@ 3.1 GHz or AMD R5 1600X @ 3.5 GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10/11 (64-Bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 10400 3.1 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 2600x 3.1 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 5 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
7 updates in 3 days?! What was added?
🛻 Patch Summary — V0.13.3 → V0.13.8A series of patches focused on stability, procedural generation, vehicles, POIs, networking, and early game progression, with several quality of life improvements.✨ Major additions🗺️ Maximum travel distance increased to 25 km, up from 15 km.🔭 Right click zoom added while driving or riding as a passenger.🎥 Third person camera controls added.🍳 New early game objective: get a trailer → build a cooking bench → cook food.🏕️ Cooking bench and big box recipes are now available by default in campers.🧎 Crouch toggle setting added.📦 Transport box added to the back of the pickup truck.🎵 Music and voice lines now trigger at key moments in the scenario.🚗 New vehicle clusters.📏 Imperial units toggle added.📯 Pickup truck now has a horn. Meep meep!🚙 Vehicles & drivingImproved driving and handling for Reno and Buck Warden.💪 Buck Warden is now 4WD.Improved vehicle and car part colliders.Improved camper colliders.Improved Reno and Warden interiors and collisions.Fixed mirror slots on Reno doors.📯 Fixed honking getting stuck.Improved trailer and vehicle placement.🌨️ World & procedural generation🏔️ Major improvements and fixes to POIs and trailer placement.Fixed objective POI placement.Fixed procedural generation issues affecting terrain height.🛒 Blizzard now properly pushes shopping carts.👀 Added dithering to prevent objects from obstructing the player's view.❄️ Fixed snow appearing inside vehicles.🎮 Gameplay & progression💾 Saves are no longer deleted on game over.❤️ Players now reset properly after being revived.Fixed the game failing to end after 15 km.🔫 Fixed a quest getting stuck when the player had already researched the Flare Gun blueprint.↩️ The stuck button now has more history available when going backwards.⛽ Generators consume slightly less fuel.💦 Peeing in the snow now leaves a trace.⚙️ Performance & technical🚀 Fixed a major stutter the first time the flashlight is used.🌐 Improved networking initialization, selecting the best solution based...Read full article on Community Announcements (CLem)AnnouncementsOfficial
Playtest is now open! 🛻
We are excited to finally open up our first public playtest with a brand new scenario mode and many other never-seen-before updates. The playtest is part of the Steam PvE Survival & Crafting Fest, and it comes with a new trailer! The scenario mode builds on the true and tested sandbox experience loved by tens of thousands of playtesters and many content creators like Biffmatic and Camodo Gaming. It includes a more guided way to the game to introduce you to the newest additions and existing mechanics. Build your car, scrap parts and find out what happened to Brian who went to get some more gas to survive.You can play the scenario solo or in co-op with up to 4 players online. The playtest gives gamers 3 additional invites to send out to their friends, or they can join the open playtest via the Steam Page here: Patch Notes: 🎮 NEW SCENARIO: GET YOUR CAR BACK 🎮✅ Brian went away with your car a few days ago, he never came back. You decide to gather some supplies and go after him... 🌍 LOCALIZATION IS IN! 🌏 ✅ The game is now translated in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese 🚗 FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS 🚗✅ Dozens of fixes and improvements of the driving experience, car deformation when crashing, POIs, and itemsRead full article on Community Announcements (RedDuelist)Patch NotesOfficial
Update: Camper Crafting!
🛻 TRAILERS MAJOR UPDATE: MOBILE BASE🛻 ✅ You can now build in trailers: crafting and cooking benches, and transport boxes ✅ Now trailers are equipped with heaters and electricity ✅ Trailers now consume a bit of fuel when attached ✅ Crafting from the bench in the trailer will consume fuel 🚚 NEW TRANSPORT ITEMS 🚚 ✅ We've heard your requests! Keep your beloved items safe in the new boxes and shelves of all sizes! Loot the boxes or craft them, and attach them to your car and trailer. ⛈️ ❄️ BLIZZARDS GET PHYSICAL ⛈️ ❄️ ✅ Blizzards will now be more threatening than ever! Hide your belongings and protect yourself, as the winds will move objects with high force 🎮 GENERAL 🎮 ✅ The usual dozens of fixes and improvements on cars, items and POIs (and hopefully no regression) ✅ Controller Support: additional improvements and fixes 🎮 FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS 🎮 ✅ Improved how storms spawn ✅ Balanced how often storms spawn. Also, storms will now start to spawn from Day 2 ✅ Improved how the vehicles slide and brake on the road to improve the driving experience ✅ Fixed trailer bench crafted object placement ✅ Fixed misalignment of car parts on all cars ✅ Fixed trailer/car attachment position on all cars ✅ Fixed some recipes not appearing in the crafting screen ✅ Improved cars and trailer colliders ✅ Walls that you broke with the sledgehammer will not reappear when you load your save anymore ✅ Various fixed and improvements on POIs and controller support handling If you reached the end, hi!We are opening up the playtest soon, but you can still get access to the closed playtest before it goes open, we are sending out the remaining invites to the closed playtest 2 days in advance of it going open for everyone 👀 Sign up here on the Steam page below!Read full article on Community Announcements (RedDuelist)Patch NotesOfficial
What we did in July!
New patch v0.11.12 is live! 🤝Thank you so much for your feedback and support! *This patch was added previous week 🚗 NEW STARTING CAR 🚗 ✅ Start your adventure with a beat-up Facia Reno 12-4S and its 4-cylinder engine from 1978. 🚗 NEW OBJECTIVES 🚗 🔍 We added a few (totally optional) objectives in the top-right corner of the screen to guide new players and help them understand the game's expectations. 🎮 NEW DIFFICULTY BIOMES 🎮 ✅ Biomes like the dense forest now have variations in difficulty that depend on your km driven. 🗞️ NEW BALANCING OF BLUEPRINTS, FUEL, AND ITEMS 🔍 ✅ We improved our behind-the-scene tools to balance the amount of spawn for all of the objects of the game now. But we might be giving too much/too little at some point in your journey. Please keep us updated, as we want resources to be scarce, and the game should be quite challenging. 🎮 GENERAL ✅ Added: Aussie flag 🇦🇺 ✅ Numerous fixes and improvements on the starting car, the pickup cars, and some POIs ✅ All engines got their stats balanced ✅ A lot of behind-the-scene optimizations 🔍Share your thoughts and ratings of Arctic Drive; tell us more of what you think so we build the best road trip game ever! -> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiAPLnnRno_f8rkwtXaTMgZnp72dhdJ-Cm8DEZTlCWPL4Ghg/viewform?usp=headerRead full article on Community Announcements (RedDuelist)Patch NotesOfficial
New patch v0.11.7 is live for playtesters!
The world outside the windshield has stopped being one thing. This update brings biomes to Arctic Drive: new vegetation, rocks and tree stumps, and roads that narrow or widen depending on where you've ended up. POI distribution has been reworked so you hit a better mix of small stops and big finds. Drive far enough and the landscape stops agreeing with you.🤝Thank you so much for your feedback and support!🎮 NEW WORLD FEATURE: BIOMES & ROAD WIDTH 🎮✅ The world will now change with sometimes radically different landscape. We will introduce new biomes as we go.✅ New vegetation, tree stumps, rocks have been added to the environment✅ The default road width has been changed to be more realistic✅ Roads width will now dynamically change depending on the biome you drive in🎮 POIs DISTRIBUTION IMPROVED 🎮✅ You should now encounter a better mix of small and big POIs🗞️ NEW ITEMS & BLUEPRINTS 🔍✅ Craft new protein bars that warm you up for 3 to 5 minutes! Without any side effect, I promise!✅ Craft new 20L jerrycans✅ Craft repair kits of level 2 and 3✅ Items that you have unlocked but cannot craft because of the low tier of the bench will show up in the crafting list with a message🚗 BALANCING & FIXES 🚗✅ Engines torque, max speed, and fuel consumption have been balanced✅ Fixed car seats positions✅ Generators now consume more fuel✅ Snowstorms will now be more frequent✅ Many other optimizations, fixes and improvementsRead full article on Community Announcements (Bonus Stage Publishing)
