Roadtrip Rpg Keep Driving Teaches You That A Hitchhiker Is Just A...

Impeccable vibes and great music make this one of my favorite games of 2025.

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There's a saying: A stranger is just a friend you haven't met. Here's a revision, courtesy of roadtrip RPG Keep Diving: A hitchhiker is just a friend you haven't met who might have weed.

As I said in my Keep Driving review, I grew up in the US in a town that had—like many towns in the US—no real public transportation, so my first taste of real freedom was when I got my first car, a heavily used hand-me-down green Plymouth Horizon hatchback. I loved that clunky car, mostly because of what it represented: a chance to escape my house and my town and set out on the road with no real destination, only occasionally checking the map, blasting music, and paying for gas a few dollars at a time. Gotta save some cash for snacks.

Keep Driving delivers impeccable vibes from a time when the stress of school was slowly being replaced by the clawing panic of having to figure out what comes after school. A real job. Real responsibilities. Real life. But between graduation and whatever came next, there was that last summer vacation, eight aimless weeks that delivered a chance to pile into a car with some friends and have an adventure.

That's where Keep Driving begins: you're heading out on one last summer trip to see a buddy you've mostly lost touch with, who has invited you to attend a concert with them. You unfold your map, choose your route, and start driving, dealing with hazards along the road as they come up, and stopping only to fuel up, buy snacks, and sometimes get a bit of shut-eye. It's a solo journey—but not for long.

I never once picked up a hitchhiker in real life like you do in Keep Driving, but the people you meet on the road are not in your car for long before they start feeling like friends, probably because you already have friends like them. There's the punk rocker who only wants to talk about music. The burnout whose marriage and career are falling apart. The wildcard who keeps encouraging you to do stuff you probably shouldn't. The guy who spends the whole roadtrip sleeping so you can't even have a conversation. We all know that guy.

And there are a few hitchhikers who are a bit further out there, like a guy you see on the side of

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