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Byte Driver

Byte Driver combines a classic driving game with a bottom up shooter. Your car runs on energy. Using weapons and bumping into things will cost you energy. Energy and weapons are obtained by hacking the…

28 May 2019

Byte Driver is an arcade developed by Vector Hat, released 28 May 2019 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Byte Driver is

Byte Driver is an arcade game developed by Vector Hat and released in 2019. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Story: The year is 1999. The self-driving cars have become self-aware and have taken over the highway. Only one person tries to drive. Her car, the Byte Driver driver, is equipped with a device of her own design, a device that can absorb the capabilities of autonomous vehicles. Her mission: to destroy the Cyber Mind, breaking the connection between the self-drivers, and bring freedom back to the road. History: In 1978, a unique machine started showing up in arcades all around the world. With its distinctive gameplay and state of the art vector graphics projected over a raster display, it quickly became a major hit. In 1979 more quarters were dropped in the coin boxes of Byte Driver than all…
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Byte Driver launched on 28 May 2019, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Rage 2.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Rage 2.

Official trailer

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When did Byte Driver come out?
Byte Driver was released on 28 May 2019 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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