Pacific Drive similar games & best alternatives

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Pacific Drive

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2024

Should you play it?

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

What works

  • Unique atmospheric setting
  • Engaging car customization and maintenance
  • Immersive sound design and music
  • Meaningful survival and exploration gameplay
  • Strong narrative and voice acting

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of mid-run save feature
  • Performance issues on some hardware
  • Repetitive looting and grinding
  • Some ui and quality of life frustrations
  • Limited social or multiplayer features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Subnautica: Below Zero

  • Hell is Us

  • Baby Steps

  • Urge

  • The Last Case of Benedict Fox Definitive Edition

  • BLACKTAIL

Less expressive

Games that feels like Pacific Drive but with less self-expression and customization

  • The Land of Pain

  • Outer Wilds

  • Slender: The Arrival

  • Wick

  • The Alien Cube

  • DARK NIGHT WITH FLOPPA

More violent

Games that feels like Pacific Drive but with more combat and destruction

  • Resident Evil 4

  • Island 359™

  • Days Gone

  • Kristala

  • Terminator: Resistance

  • Eternal Evil

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Pacific Drive: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026