Demon Driver is a cancelled point & click adventure / racing game hybrid that was in development for PC by french team Haiku Studios around 1996. During their short existence Haiku Studios released only two games, The Koshan Conspiracy in 1994 and Down in the Dumps (probably their most popular title) in 1996. All of their other projects such as Elric and The Island of Dr. Moreau were never completed, lost and forgotten when the studio closed down in 1997.
From the few Demon Driver screenshots shared online by Abandonware France we can assume it was going to be a funny adventure game similar to Down in the Dumps, but with some kind of racing gameplay added to it. While their only released games were welcomed with mixed reviews, it’s unfortunate they did not have another chance to complete another promising project.
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Here’s another mention of Demon Driver with a differing artstyle of that shown in pictures on here.
If link is automatically deleted, it’s in Polish magazine ‘PC Gamer Po Polsku’ from January 1997 and is available on archive.org, and is on pages 34/35.
https://archive.org/details/pc-gamer-po-polsku-07/page/34/mode/2up