Pacific Drive
Pacific Drive is a first-person driving survival game with your car as your only companion. Navigate a surreal reimagining of the Pacific Northwest, and face supernatural dangers as you venture into the…
Pacific Drive is an adventure developed by Ironwood Studios, released 22 February 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $8.49 at IndieGala. The main story takes about 35.5 hrs to finish.
What Pacific Drive is
Pacific Drive is an adventure game developed by Ironwood Studios and released in 2024. It was published by Kepler Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In 1955, the United States government seized a region of the Pacific Northwest by eminent domain. The Olympic Peninsula became the staging ground for promising new technologies, but these utopian creations came at great cost: severe radiation, environmental collapse, and supernatural horrors. The government walled off the area and established the Olympic Exclusion Zone. What happened inside was never disclosed. Rumors and stories about the Zone run rampant, compelling you to go and explore its perimeter. Your plans go awry and you’re now stuck inside – you don’t know it yet, but the only way out is through. You find a barely running station wagon deep in the woods, miraculously unlocked and…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, mystery, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 49 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Pacific Drive holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 80 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 35.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 74.3 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $8.49, that works out to about $0.24 per hour of the main story, or $0.11 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5 8600, 16 GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB. A 16GB memory requirement is demanding — worth checking before you buy, because 8GB is still common in older and budget machines. Install size is roughly 18GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $8.49 at IndieGala, 72% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Indonesia is the cheapest region we track at Rp 147,200 (about $8.22), while Germany pays €17.99 — 2.4 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 9 on Steam, which is about $8.99.
What it launched against
Pacific Drive launched on 22 February 2024, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Balatro, Helldivers 2 and Persona 3 Reload. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Balatro, Helldivers 2, Persona 3 Reload.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pacific Drive yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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