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A hired highway warrior outfits an armed car, takes contracts, and fights gang vehicles with tactical slow-time orders.
Released 16 May 2019
Slow-Time Orders
Arm Your Car
Drop Road Mines
Step into the extraordinary, dystopian world of Dark Future, filled with danger, chaos and adventure. A game of both action and strategy unlike any other, featuring a unique time dilating command mode to help you make tactical decisions on the dangerous highways of this world.
Developed by Auroch Digital · Published by Auroch Digital









In a collapsing, dystopian America, you play a highway warrior for hire, taking contracts to battle gangs and keep control of dangerous roads.
Drive armed vehicles through real-time highway fights, steering and attacking as the action unfolds. When you need to plan, slow time in Command Mode to issue orders and choose targets.
Successful missions bring in money for weapons and vehicle upgrades, letting you adapt your loadout for later jobs. Missions fit into run-based campaigns, where a run ends if you fail to survive.
Players who enjoy the game often single out its unusual blend of direct car combat and tactical slow-time orders, along with vehicle upgrades, short missions, and its dystopian road-war setting. Other reviews report crashes that can erase mission progress, and some find the missions repetitive or the controls and balance uneven.
"Like Qvadriga, a title that DF sometimes brings to mind, this is a game that fills a five-minute play window as efficiently and agreeably as it fills a thirty-minute one. Exhilarating, easy on the eye and ear, and very moreish" - Tim Stone, Rock Paper Shotgun
"Turns white line fever into something thinky" - Jody Macgregor, PC Gamer
America. 2025.
The government is non-existent and society, struggling against pollution, stagnation, catastrophic climate change and gang warfare, is at the point of collapse. You are a highway warrior for hire, taking on contracts to keep the few laws that exist, in check. You battle against roving gangs to control the dangerous roads and earn a living in these dangerous times.
Tool up your vehicle with a range of weapons and upgrades and head out into The Big Empty. Explore this darkly absurd land, with danger and destruction at every turn.
Customise your vehicle with a variety of weapons - from powerful ballistic artillery, to searing high-tech lasers and makeshift deployable explosives - all designed to cause maximum havoc and destruction on the roads.
Fight against a range of dangerous gangcults in dramatic locations, with jaw-dropping physics and visual effects, all powered by Unreal Engine 4.
Take full control of the chaotic carnage with Command Mode. Slow time down and issue orders to your vehicles in a real time strategy game unlike any other. Choose the right combination of weapons and car upgrades to put the enemy down for good.
Customise your car with special upgrades to suit your playstyle. Want to go totally offensive? Upgrade your Combat Lasers and Multi-Missile Launchers to cause maximum damage. Use your character's special abilities to outwit and outmaneuver the opposition. Put the brakes on your enemies with Road Spikes and Concussion Mines to stop them dead in their tracks. Invest in your Ramming Boost to chase down enemies and smash them off the road. Use these to maximise your payday and keep the dollars rolling in.
Eight stories introduce you to the dystopian society of Games Workshop’s car combat universe of Dark Future. Take on missions and attempt to survive in the scorched wastes of America in brutal, endlessly replayable run-based campaigns.

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| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 36 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 78/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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