Take a break from sim racing as survival game Pacific Drive launches on PC and PS5 with the challenge of exploring an exclusion zone in the Pacific Northwest in your trusty station wagon.
Set in 1998, and trapped behind a 400 metre wall, you’ll need to ensure you scavenge and use resources to reinforce or modify your car to protect you from hazards and storms. And you’ll also need to avoid running out of petrol, as well as being reading to outrun threats if you can. Between each road trip, you can return to the safety of your garage to make repairs and fix flat tyres before venturing out again deeper into the wilderness.
And the importance of your car means that the health of your vehicle is generally more important than your own for judging you success. Sometimes it’ll develop odd quirks alongside the normal fixes and repairs, with handling impacted by the weather as well as damage.
As well as driving, you’ll need to figure out the mystery of the Olympic Exclusion Zone and why the research site was abandoned by the secretive ARDA organisation. You’ll be accompanied by 20 licensed songs and an original soundtrack composed by Wilbert Roget II (who has previously created award-winning scores for games including Call of Duty: WWII, Star Wars: The Old Republic and more).
It’s the debut title from developers Ironwood Studios, and like Euro Truck Sim 2 or American Truck Simulator, it’s a chance to experience driving in a very different setting. And with memories of living in that area in the late 1990s, along with a partner who adores horror films and games, it’s probably more likely to involve her in the experience than yet another race around a track.
Pacific Drive is available for the PC and PlayStation 5 via Steam, the Epic Games Store, and the PlayStation Store. And you can keep up with all the latest Pacific Drive news, updates and more, here.
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