Slow Roads offers a relaxing and endless driving experience in your browser

The game works in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge browsers.

The driving controls in Slow Roads are simple. Use the standard WASD keys or the arrow keys on your keyboard to operate your vehicle. "W" (or up arrow) means speed up, "S" (or down arrow) means brake. "A" and "D" (or left and right arrows) manage the direction. You can give your car a boost by holding the Shift key or pressing "W" twice. Additionally, "C" changes the camera angle, and "Q" and "E" cycles through the available weather and lighting conditions. And if keyboard controls aren't your thing, you can switch to the mouse instead.

Slow Roads lets you change weather and lighting. Here we see a snowy landscape at dusk. Ars-Technica

Slow Roads supports an optional first-person viewpoint, among other things. Ars-Technica

When driving at night, you can turn your headlights on or off. Ars-Technica

Go off the beaten path in a snowy landscape in Slow Roads. Ars-Technica

Slow Roads keyboard controls are accessible in a handy pop-up guide. Ars-Technica

Anslo built Slow Roads using a 3D JavaScript library called three.js, and the developer describes the technical back-end of the game in detail in a Medium article, including on-the-fly infinite map generation and physics manipulation. It's a pretty fancy tech demo that also happens to be fun.

In the first game, it's obvious that graphics aren't what Slow Roads is all about, and that works to its advantage. It features mi...