Driveloop: Survivors Hands-On – Is This the Next Big Survival Hit?
Driveloop: Survivors is shaking up the survival genre with its high-speed chaos, strategic depth, and relentless action—but is it worth your time? In this hands-on preview, we dive into its core mechanics, standout features, and potential game-changing elements to see if it delivers on the hype. Whether you’re a veteran survival player or just looking for your next adrenaline-fueled adventure, here’s everything you need to know before jumping into the action.
Driveloop: Survivors Preview Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 1.61GB download size.
- Graphics settings – resolution, window mode, v-sync, FPS limit, resolution scale, anti-aliasing method, anti-aliasing quality, global quality, shadow quality, volumetric fog quality, object quality, texture quality, and ambient occlusion quality.
- Full controller support.
- Aim and shoot option.
- Two starting vehicles – Vanguard and Sentry, with both having unique stats for acceleration, handling, speed, durability, ramming, and drifting.
- Four game difficulties.
- Three locations but only one is open initially, Berlin.
- Unlock and equip different loadouts for your vehicle.
- A full 3D game world.
- Auto battler driving gameplay.
- Earn exp by collecting orbs dropped from enemies and level up to pick one of three random upgrades and abilities.
- Pick the same upgrade or ability to level that up and improve it.
- Heavy metal-inspired soundtrack.
- The dust lands, and the general vibe is that of a Mad Max world, except you drive quality mafia-style cars around shooting people.
- Reinforcements can appear and are usually a huge group of enemies or a line of them going across the screen.
- It’s a big world with jumps, obstacles, and bushes that slow you down.
- Hot air balloon drops appear, and grabbing them lets you pick an upgrade from two choices.
- Health bar system with health drops.
- Run based game loop with an end-of-run breakdown.
- Earn exp for an overall level up at the end of a run, and it’s based on enemies killed and cash collected.
- You can pause the game.
- Dedicated drift button.
- Events can pop up, like going through gates or the area getting smaller, thanks to the sandstorms.
Driveloop: Survivors Preview Cons:
- The menus are not great to use with the controller.
- No Steam achievements.
- You cannot remap the controls for the controller or the keyboard.
- Only one music track, and it just loops over and over again.
- The world is very open, but it feels flat and empty.
- No tutorials.
- Slow to get unlocks, and this means a lot of repetitive, tedious grinding for small rewards.
- No camera control, and this makes it hard to navigate the more built-up areas.
- Mouse cursor stays on the screen all the time, even when using the controller.
- It just doesn’t have anything unique or different. I can do the same loop of a rock over and over and level up just fine without being touched.
- No way to bring up the map.
- To be fair, though, the car is made of glass and is so weak.
- Unlocks like loadouts are level 5, and it takes way too long to go up one level.
- They give you a small handful of abilities, a weak car, and no health, so it’s just rinse and repeat, and it’s not rewarding or satisfying to play.
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Driveloop: Survivors:
Developer: Stunbyte
Publisher: Stunbyte
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