Keep Driving — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Chatting with Wax Heads director Murray about Keep Driving and other things | 2026-03-27 | Hello! We are working on the console versions of Keep Driving, and are nearing completion. More info will come on that in the near future. At the same time Josef (Artist and 1/2 of YCJY Games) had a chat with old friend and Creative Director of upcoming game Wax Heads, Murray Sommerwolff, to talk about Keep Driving, Wax Heads and more. You can watch the whole talk here: Thank you everyone who has played and enjoyed Keep Driving. It really means the world to us! Stay tuned for more news very soon! Cheers, Christopher, YCJY |
| Hotfix 1.3.1.1d | 2026-01-08 | Patch notes: - Fixed controller/steamdeck issue when trying to select the second interior slot - Fixed money exploit with the junk-dealer trait - Fixed so you can't kick the couple in between finishing their final quest and seeing it to completion |
| Patch 1.3.1.1 | 2025-12-05 | Patch notes: - Hitchhikers whose quests you haven't completed will appear more frequently - Upgrade menu (from trunk) now visible when you are at a garage (once again) - Increased encounter rates of some events - Being an alcoholic increases drunk-timer during road events - The Songwriter's perk "Center of Attention" won't trigger if he is asleep - Fixed some of the map rendering. Should prevent the scrambled map on steam deck that some players have experienced. - Adjusted how the "memories" in the book of the main menu is drawn so it's easier to read. - When ending your turn during a road event, you will now get prompted before the turn ends |
| hotfix 1.3.1.0d | 2025-10-08 | - fixed issue with the punk's second ability not working - fixed issue with the camping gear loadout not showing up - fixed better alignment of text in map legend for Cyrillic text |
| hotfix 1.3.1.0c | 2025-09-29 | (includes patch notes for previous hotfixes (1.3.1.0a and 1.3.1.0b) - fixed a few strings being broken in Chinese/Japanese - Added some missing glyphs for Chinese - Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to complete the inheritance ending after certain events had occurred - fixed crash when pressing a hitchhiker skill with the journal open - fixed louvre displaying weirdly on truck/sedan - fixed offset of text in map - fixed bug where the game would crash if you had a save with a bugged skill tree (may be due to tampered save file) |
| LOCALIZATION UPDATE | 2025-09-26 | We are happy to announce the release of the localization update! Now you can play Keep Driving in the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified) and Japanese! It's been a lot of work to get this done, and we want to thank all translators, QA testers and programmer Juju Adams who helped us with a great localization system. This update also adds some new content to the game (including a new ending). Thanks for everyone who's enjoyed and supported the game! Cheers, Christopher & Josef Full patch notes follows: LOCALIZATION: - Added new languages to the game: - Ge |
| Hotfix 1.2.0.0e | 2025-08-17 | - Save issues It has come to our attention that some players have experienced data loss following a crash. I have added an extra failsafe, when loading, to restore missing save-files if for any reason the save-file would disappear. From some research I've done it's probably related to an engine-problem where files that have been written to sometimes get deleted completely if the computer crashes while the game is running. If any data-loss still appears to anyone after this update, please report it to us so we can look into it more. To those who have experienced data-loss, I am very sorry. I will put up a guide on how to manipulate a save-file |
| Keep Driving Update | 2025-06-26 | Build 1.2.0.0 Live! This patch adds new content to the game as well as some fixes. For those looking for the localization patch, you'll have to wait a bit longer, but we are making lots of progress towards it. With help from programmer Juju Adams the game is now ready to be translated and we're aiming for August to release the localized patch. Thanks for your patience! Languages planned for Localization patch are: German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Ukrainian , Japanese, Chinese (Simplified) and RussianWe plan to have a sale up when that patch drops as well, but maybe not as deep as the Summer Sale. New features:- Added some new Tr |
| Patch 1.1.0.2 | 2025-05-06 | - Added junkyard and campsite icons for the map legend. - Fixed bug where items couldn't be placed in parts of the extra-space when using the muscle car. - Fixed bug where you could be locked out of making any action when you checked your statuses during road events (when using gamepad). - Fixed bug where you could be locked out of the glovebox during a road event if you tried to quickly use an item from the glovebox when certain triggered effects happened. hotfix 1.1.0.2b - Fixed another issue with road-events being locked |
| Patch 1.1.0.1 | 2025-05-04 | - Fixed bug that crashed the game when dragging an item from a shop in between glove-box-slots. - Fixed bug where you could drive away with the car after character creation, before getting your stuff from your home. - Fixed bug where gamepad controls would show up in the repair-section in the garage interface even if you weren't using gamepad. - Reduced the price of the 70's Orange cosmetic upgrade. - You can now swap upgrades of the same type directly in the garage interface. Before they bugged out and landed in weird places in your trunk. - Fixed rare crash that could happen while trying to refuel jerrycans for some players. - Improved beha |
| LudoNarraCon x Keep Driving Sale | 2025-05-01 | Hey everyone! We really want to thank all 100,000+ people that bought the game to this date and we are so proud that its done this well. It's been our riskiest game as it took us 5+ years to make and by far the most difficult to design and execute so this is overwhelmingly huge for us. It paid off! If you enjoyed the game but haven't written a review, please write one. It means so much to us and to steam visibility to have lots of reviews, especially positive reviews that reflect the game. :) Along with all the sales we've also won the prestigious Indie Cade Grand Jury Award, nominated at Amaze (yet to see if we win), and a lot of great score |
| Keep Driving Update | 2025-05-01 | Patch notes for build 1.1.0.0: New content: - Added Gamepad support (works great on Steam Deck!)* - Added Casino-minigame for El Cobra - Added Junkyards. (You need to start a new game for them to show up) - You can now visit El Cobra without any prerequisites. (You need to start a new game for this location to show up, unless you already have access to it) - Added the option to refuel jerrycans at gas-stations - Added a bunch of new cosmetic items! - More side-stops appear even on later playthroughs now. - Added option for borderless full-screen - Added campsite-side stops (You need to start a new game for them to show up) - At campsites you |
| 2025 Update Roadmap | 2025-03-27 | Hey! Keep Driving has been out now for close to 2 months and we're really happy with all the positive feedback and all the wonderful messages some of you've sent us. |
| Patch 1.0.1.2c | 2025-02-24 | 1.0.1.2c (Hotfix) - Fixed a visual bug where the sky would disappear and look very bugged - Fixed bug where the roads you've travelled on didn't show on the map (red line) - Made it harder to drive while high 1.0.1.2 - Fixed rainbow-road-event showing up where it shouldn't. - Added item swapping (drag one to another of the same size to swap positions). - Fixed crash that could happen when right-clicking certain items in your glovebox. - Ravioli now says in the description that it contains meat. - Fixed rare crash when pausing during certain dialogues. - Fixed some typos - Fixed "start-of-road"-passive effects sometimes triggering twice. - Rai |
| PATCH 1.0.1.1d | 2025-02-14 | UPDATE: hotfix 1.0.1.1d LIVE - Fixed threat not snapping correctly when targeting UPDATE: hotfix 1.0.1.1c - Fixed shop backgrounds being drawn incorrectly. - Fixed audio volume settings moving two steps instead of one. UPDATE: hotfix 1.0.1.1b - Fixed a bug where the skill "Resourceful" didn't work properly when you had the Idiot's level 3 passive skill. - Fixed a bug where road events sometimes got "broken" after escaping a previous road event. - Fixed so that the gas pedal can't be used during an ending. Or when you're sleeping/working - Fixed (again) so side-quest's destination can't be the same as pickup-destination. (this time it should b |
| Patch 1.0.0.8b | 2025-02-12 | PATCH 1.0.0.8b HOTFIX UPDATE (1.0.0.8b): - Fixed a bug where interacting with people could lead to unintended things happening. ------ New patch! Fixes some quite critical bugs, most notably one with a certain hitchhiker's quest since last patch. - Fixed the flag-upgrades so they work correctly now. Used to give EXTRA discount when you installed them and also when you loaded the game. (note they gave too much discount before. They should give a 20% discount. - Pressing "I" to open your trunk while driving now stops the car as if you would've selected it from the car menu. - Fixed kicked hitchhikers showing up at destinations - Fixed CD player |
| PATCH 1.0.0.7 | 2025-02-10 | Another patch up (should be available shortly, it's already live on the test branch)! Thanks for all the feedback and bug-reports. If you encounter some serious bug please don't hesitate to write about it. Added some QOL-updates to the inventory this time around: The ability to move things to your extra-space form the right-click-menu and to rotate an item that you're holding by pressing the "R"-key. Here are the patch notes: - Fixed a rare crash for some players when loading a game in rain - Muscle car's description now correctly says 3 passenger seats - You can now rotate an item while holding it and pressing "R". This also works when holdi |
| Patch 1.0.0.3b | 2025-02-09 | HOTFIX (1.0.0.3b) Live! Some rare but important issues have been addressed in this hotfix. Threw in some small fixes while I was at it as well. - Fixed a couple of rare crashes that could happen for some players in options menu or when picking up a hitchhiker. - changed sprites for the fender for the muscle car to fit the item-sprite. - added more info about the roof racks in their descriptions. - removed the "hair-effect" when checking your extra-space -------- Patch 1.0.0.3 is now live! There are still bugs that I am aware of and I'm working to fix them all, but wanted to get this out now, since it fixes some more common and critical issues |
| Keep Driving is finally out! | 2025-02-06 | Hey everyone, it’s Christopher and Josef! Today’s finally the day: Keep Driving is OUT NOW!! It's hard to express how it feels releasing a game we've worked on since 2016. We failed once, put it on ice, came back to it and devoted all our effort to make it happen. It's been helluva project, much bigger than we initially thought it would be, but we're incredibly proud to finally say: IT'S OUT! Thanks so much to all of you who have come on this ride with us in the months since we announced. When we revealed our game last fall, we would’ve never thought we’d have this much support at launch. We really hope you enjoy this game, we’ve worked so ha |
| Keep Driving Release Date | 2025-01-20 | Hey everyone, it’s Josef and Christopher! We’ve been waiting to make this announcement for a long time now: Keep Driving is officially launching on Thursday, February 6!!! We’ve been making this game for years now and we never would’ve expected the support we’ve gotten. After having over 100,000 people play our demo and gaining over 170,000 wishlists, we still can’t believe it. We’re nearly at the end of the road now, and we’re really grateful for all your excitement. Excited for you all to show up on launch week! Check out the new trailer, shows a lot of new things and the music is perfect (Wake Up by Holy Now). Be sure to follow us on Twitt |