Celebrating indie games is something we at Lords of Gaming all believe in, so when the team hosting the Start Your Engines Festival reached out, we were happy to give them some spotlight. With over 90 titles part of the festival, both upcoming and released, there are a lot of exciting games to discuss.
Join us as we break down everything you need to know!
What is the Festival?
Hosted by PlayTogether Studios, the festival celebrates video games that heavily use vehicles! The official Steam Page hosting all the exciting games says the following about the event:
…driving and convoy survival, simulation and management, racing and rally, and rover piloting: across every genre, so long as the mechanical vehicle is core to play and not just set dressing, and combat is not the main feature. We’ll spotlight titles with deep systems, meaningful upgrades, and worlds worth exploring on any mechanical vehicle.
Featured Games
The featured games are separated into four unique categories. Here’s the full list of games below!
Driving
- Brick Rigs
- Outbound
- Star Trucker
- Over the hill
- Keep Driving
- Truck World: Australia
- Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator
- Easy Delivery Co.
- Deliver At All Costs
- PACS – Post Apocalypse Courier Service
- Dustland Delivery
- IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
- Main Assembly
- Bus World
- Truckful
- Fruitbus
- WheelMates
- Heading Out
- Can’t Drive This
- Silent Road
- Nomad Drive
- Driving Life
- Omnibus
- Petal Runner
- Crescent County
- Mugsters
- Lost Host
- Breaking Armor
- Arctic Drive
- NODE The Last Favor of the Antarii
- Agent Intercept
- Road Truckers: New Beginning
- RoadOut
- Driving Is Hard
- WITHOUT A HITCH
- Truck Driver
- Real Farm Gold Edition
- Truck Driver: The American Dream DEMO
Racing
- JDM: Japanese Drift Master
- Motorsport Manager
- art of rally
- Absolute Drift
- Trail Out
- Sledders
- Old School Rally
- Make Way
- Victory Heat Rally
- Driftwood
- Parking Garage Rally Circuit
- Exo Rally Championship
- Oh Baby Kart
- Minit Fun Racer
- Hot Lap Racing
- SCHROTT
- Drag Racing 3D: Streets 2
- TRAIL OUT
Rails
- Transport Fever 2
- Transport Fever
- Railborn
- Transport Fever 3
- Sweet Transit
- Frostrail
- Station to Station
- Train Fever
- Denshattack!
- Frostliner
- Ticket to Ride
- Apocalypse Express
- Iron Roads
Wings & Waves
- DREDGE
- Aloft
- FAR: Lone Sails
- Flotsam
- Nimbatus – The Space Drone Constructor
- ATMOSFAR
- Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
- Sail Forth
- Lou’s Lagoon
- mini airways
- Aether & Iron
- Windpunk
- The Oily Depths
- Deep Space Exploitation
- Bootleg Steamer
- Project: Aurora
- ADRIFT
Closing Thoughts on the Start Your Engines Festival
Seeing fun events like this celebrating indie games is awesome, and we hope to see more initiatives like this in the future. Keep an eye on all these exciting upcoming releases, and for games already out, you can enjoy up to nearly 95% off on several already-released games part of the event.
PlayTogether Studio, makers of Arctic Drive, has the following statement to celebrate the event, running from May 12th (10 AM Pacific time) to May 19th (10 AM Pacific time).
The event celebrates engines in all games! Whether you want to drift through mountain passes, haul cargo across a post-apocalyptic wasteland, run a transcontinental rail empire, or sail an open sea with the wind at your back, there’s an engine here for you.
