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Live — Desktop idle

DriveWave

Developed by Dumbbell Games 23 Oct 2025 Steam

Every keystroke powers your car across neon highways.


A free-to-play car game that runs in a small always-on-top window while you work. Your typing is the fuel: every keystroke pushes the car further down a neon highway.

Collect cars, customise them, and let the road grow underneath whatever else you are doing.

02 — Trailer

Watch it move.

03 — Screenshots

What it looks like.

04 — Player reviews

What players say

Three recent positives and one recent negative, copied straight off Steam.

Recommended 1 h played 05 Sept 2026

Regler

Recommended 9 h played 01 Sept 2026

こういうゲームを待っていた! バナーに書かれている『タイピングで走れ』という文言を見ると「タイピングゲームかな?」と思ってしまう人も多い気がしますし、実際僕も最初はそうだと思ったのですが、実際のところは、 バックグラウンドで起動しておくことで車が加速していく 、といった感じのゲームです。したがって、このゲームだけを起動して遊ぶというより、別のソフトの後ろで動かしておく、という遊び方のほうが正しいのかな、と思います。 基本的に勝ち負けはないようなので、ゲームというよりはデスクトップマスコットみたいな印象です。 とりあえずキーボード入力されていればどんなソフトを使っていても反応するので、エクセルやワード等で書類を作るときなどに起動しておけば、意外と捗ると思います。ちょうど今、僕がこのレビューを入力している裏で"悪魔のZ"が走っています。 また、キーボード入力のみならず、マウスやペンタブレット、ゲームコントローラ等も受け付けているよ…

Recommended 65.5 h played 26 Aug 2026

1.一个免费游戏里有好多车企logo和名字的neta,挺有意思的; 2.类似bongo的挂机游戏,靠点击数解锁各类车辆;

Recommended 174.6 h played 14 Aug 2026

I love the music. Great app just for that if nothing else. Check out Bongo Cats, great similar fun.

Recommended 0.2 h played 03 Aug 2026

Тыкаешь по клавишам и машина едет. По сути это кликер, пока занят рутиной, а игра происходит на фоне.

Recommended 7.3 h played 26 Jul 2026

é um jogo clicker, no geral é divertido, mas acho que deveria ter opção para tunar os carros com peças além de só rodas

All reviews on Steam

05 — Steam news

Latest from the Steam page

Patch notes and announcements from the developer, newest first.

  1. DriveWave v1.5.300 - The One Where the Skydeck Goes Fullscreen

    02 Aug 2026 by Dumbbell Games Community Announcements

    Hey everyone, This update is almost entirely built from your requests, starting with the big one. Fullscreen By far the most requested feature since launch. The Skydeck, Drive and Garage screens can now go fullscreen. Click the expand button in the corner of the screen or press F11. Esc brings you back. This is not just a screenshot mode. Everything keeps running, so you can drive, walk around th…

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  2. DriveWave v1.5.222 - The One Where Nobody Had Suspension and Skydeck Gets Roomma

    01 Aug 2026 by Dumbbell Games Community Announcements

    Hey everyone, This one took a while, and the reason is embarrassing. I've been going through the driving physics for weeks because the cars felt heavy and dead in a way I couldn't put my finger on. Turns out every drivable car in the game was sitting with its suspension completely bottomed out. Not stiff. Not badly tuned. Zero travel left. The springs had nowhere to go, so the car physically coul…

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  3. DriveWave v1.5.220 - The One Where Your Rims Hit the Market

    17 Jul 2026 by Dumbbell Games Community Announcements

    Hey everyone, This is one of the biggest updates since launch. Two headline features, a pile of long-standing bug fixes, and a full save system audit under the hood. Your wheel drops now actually land in your Steam Inventory This one is embarrassing and important. Wheel drops were supposed to appear in your Steam Inventory since day one. They never did, for anyone. The grant call we used only wor…

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  4. Hotfix - v1.5.217

    02 Jun 2026 by Dumbbell Games Community Announcements

    Hey everyone, Bigger hotfix than usual this time, a new option, a couple of annoying bugs squashed, and some polish. Here is everything in v1.5.217. Wheel Drop Notifications are now your call There is a new toggle in Settings for the wheel drop claim popup. It is ON by default, so nothing changes unless you want it to. Turn it OFF and the claim button stops sliding in on its own. Instead, a Claim…

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  5. Hotfix - v1.5.215

    27 May 2026 by Dumbbell Games Community Announcements

    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 Two layers, stacked. Every time the game shut down, an empty SavePlaylist was being written even if you had not touched the Jukebox that session, overwriting your saved playlist on disk with an empt…

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