# Byte Driver

Summer DB entity ID: f8f70763\-b39d\-45a3\-be32\-9591c5493f65

Steam App ID: 944300

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 of that year’s other machines put together\.      Sadly, the combination display was notoriously failure prone and arcade operators found their upkeep difficult\. By 1981 the last known Byte Driver machine went offline\. Since then the whole craze has been largely forgotten\. What is Byte Driver?     Byte Driver combines a classic driving game with a bottom up shooter\. Your car runs on energy\. Energy and weapons are obtained by hacking the vehicles around you\. You’ll have to stay alert, because the sharply twisting road and countless enemy vehicles will be trying to stop you from reaching your ultimate goal\. Run out of energy, and you die\.             If you're thinking this sounds like “a hard game”, you're right\. Byte Driver is designed to push your reflexes to the limit\. The faster you drive, the higher your score\. The further you go, the more dangerous the road gets\. Drive fast\. Hack your enemies\. Fight for your life\. Survive if you can\.         Don't Stress\!  You just want to take a nice relaxing drive through the countryside, see the sights, blow up some cars in a stress free environment? No problem\! Turn on  No Stress Mode  and go to your happy place\. No one is watching\.          Drive, Hack, Fight, Survive\.\.\. Byte Driver\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Vector Hat

- Publisher: Thalamus Digital

- Release date: May 28, 2019

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Action, Indie, Racing

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, Steam Leaderboards, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/944300/ss\_c00e2bad394c7309daba3ffb320b818e4d594a25\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1675461454, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/944300/ss\_b2469b80aa4453df0d1b3e8fb5ac864ba9215687\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1675461454, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/944300/ss\_ea1172cdb443ad314d5428a0e273787e1b8d63b5\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1675461454, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/944300/ss\_fdff0d66f48b5209f2a48eb7eefdb40b5c76c025\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1675461454, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/944300/ss\_8d63da0bb424d121e7cab1d4dfc977666fb1ec8b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1675461454

- Price: 799 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 13

- Steam positive reviews: 13

- Steam negative reviews: 0

- Steam positive percentage: 100%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/f8f70763-b39d-45a3-be32-9591c5493f65/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/f8f70763-b39d-45a3-be32-9591c5493f65/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T19:39:50\.779184\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T19:39:52\.230259\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T19:39:51\.796719\+00:00

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Native rating methodology: \{"count":0,"average":null,"entityId":"f8f70763\-b39d\-45a3\-be32\-9591c5493f65","revision":0,"observedAt":null,"methodology":"arithmetic\-v1","distribution":\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\]\}

Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/944300/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/f8f70763-b39d-45a3-be32-9591c5493f65)