Nepal Road Trip: A Relaxing Scenic Driving Game
Nepal Road Trip is a free, calm driving game that feels like visiting Nepal. There is no timer, no score to chase and no crashing out. You drive a quiet road through Kathmandu, Chitwan, Pokhara and Mustang, watch the day turn to night, drive through rain, fog and snow, and stop to see famous sights along the way.
Four places, each with its own feel
Kathmandu (1,400 m) has brick streets, pagodas, stupas and prayer flags strung across the road, with Boudhanath, Pashupatinath and Basantapur Durbar Square to find. Chitwan (150 m) is a warm highway through sal forest and grassland with Tharu villages, elephants and a jungle watchtower. Pokhara (820 m) runs beside Phewa Lake, with Tal Barahi temple, the World Peace Pagoda, paragliders and the Annapurna range ahead. Mustang (2,720 m) is the dry Kali Gandaki valley with canyon walls, chortens, Kagbeni, Muktinath and the apple orchards of Marpha.
Real landscape beside the road
The road climbs and falls through real terrain: forested hillsides in Pokhara, the Rapti river with its guard rails in Chitwan, the Bagmati and old brick streets in Kathmandu, and in Mustang sandstone cliffs on one side and a drop to the wide, rapid-filled Kali Gandaki river bed on the other. You cross rivers on concrete and steel-arch bridges, drive through dense sal forest in Chitwan and pine forest on the hills of Pokhara and Kathmandu, and pass waterfalls on the cliffs. A hill ahead can hide the next bend, and rain, mud, fog and snow change how everything looks.
Day, night and weather
The sun, moon and stars move across the sky, with sunrise and sunset light and lit windows and lamps at night. Weather changes to suit each place: monsoon rain in Chitwan, fog in the valleys, and snow in Mustang. Rain makes roads wet, and on the unpaved mountain roads it turns them to mud, so the car slows and slips. You can also choose the time of day and the weather yourself.
Two camera views
Watch from behind the car, or switch to the driver's seat for a first-person view with a bonnet, dashboard, steering wheel and a windscreen that collects rain drops and has working wipers.
A car with real controls
The car has an automatic gearbox (park, reverse, neutral and drive), headlights that switch on by themselves in the dark or in rain (or set them to off, low or high beam), wipers with slow, fast and automatic settings, turn signals and hazard lights, brake and reverse lights, a two-tone horn that sounds for as long as you hold it, an engine that revs with your speed and gears, tyre, gravel and wind noise, the whoosh of passing vehicles and a radio that plays real live Nepali stations such as Radio Nepal, Kantipur FM, Hits FM, Image FM and BBC Nepali (with offline folk, lofi and bansuri music if you have no connection), working rear-view and side mirrors, In the driver's seat view the dashboard shows a speedometer, rev counter, gear, signal and beam lights, fuel and temperature, and the radio, and every control is clickable.
Auto drive
Prefer to just watch? Turn on auto drive and the car drives itself: it keeps to the left lane, slows for traffic, signals and overtakes slower vehicles when the road is clear, and lets you enjoy the scenery. Steer at any time to take control back.
Easy to drive
Relaxed driving keeps you in your lane, holds a safe distance behind slower vehicles and changes one lane at a time, so you can enjoy the view. Traffic is light, with only a few buses, jeeps, taxis and bikes, and cows or yaks that wander across now and then. Take a photo with one tap, and see the sights you found on your trip summary.