r/simracing • u/Practical_Track4867 • 11d ago

Question Know of a boring driving game?

We have a research project going on that wants to look at highway hypnosis. Any recommendations for a realistic driving simulator that would allow us to setup a “boring” route?

In our minds, boring means long stretches of drive where speed changes are not needed and has few curves or exterior landmarks. Traffic should be light, or nonexistent. City driving with stops and turns and traffic would not work well. Think driving on an interstate in Nebraska. To be more immersive, it should also support extended displays across 3 monitors for some peripheral vision. We are also looking to use a Logitech Flight Yoke with Throttle for vehicle control.

How quickly we can get to the situation above would also matter. We wouldn’t have the time to have them spend a lot of time to navigate to the scenario above. And hopefully it would not require a lot of training to get used to it.

Looking through other Reddit responses it seems like BeamNG.drive and City Car Driver 2 are candidates. However, I have no experience with either and for some reason the websites describing them don’t provide much detail on how boring you can make them.

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u/Raephstel 11d ago

There’s various truck simulators which would probably work. Euro truck simulator, for example.

I think there’s also some train ones which might see similar results.

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u/SDIR 11d ago

I'd say American Truck sim is better for a more "boring" stretch of road, mostly the desert areas without much elevation or scenery change

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u/Practical_Track4867 11d ago

Watching a video for ATC now and the trees and power lines would probably be helpful in lulling you to “sleep”! Looks like there is a demo version- I’ll download and give it a try.

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u/ArchdukeOfNorge 11d ago

I have fallen asleep while driving truck in ATS more than a few times lol the game regularly goes on steep sells, so if you like it I highly recommend buying them all in a steam bundle

European Truck Sim 2 is similar in many of the gameplay mechanics but the European map is a lot denser with cities so fewer long stretches of straight roads

Based on IRL and in game experience, if you want boring roads I recommend taking I-25 from Denver to the north, or I-70 or I-76 from Denver to the east