Slow Roads

A driving game with nothing to achieve. There are no opponents, no traffic, no timer and no score; there is a procedurally generated landscape, a road through it, and a car — and the entire proposition is that driving somewhere pleasant is enough on its own. It is built carefully enough to carry that. The terrain generation produces genuinely varied scenery rather than repeating textures, weather and time of day shift while you drive, and the handling is relaxed without being vague — there is enough feel in the car to make a corner satisfying, which matters when the corner is the only reward on offer. Settings let you change the landscape type, the density of the road network and the time of day. What it is for is the thing people actually use it for: background. It runs in a tab while you listen to something, it asks nothing of your attention, and you can stop at any point without losing anything. It needs a moderately capable machine for a smooth frame rate and a keyboard for comfortable steering. An unusual thing to find in a browser, and a genuinely well-made one.