Pacific Drive cover

Pacific Drive

Critic score5 critics
First release
Feb 22, 2024
Genres
Indie, Adventure, Simulator · Mystery, Action, Science fiction, Survival

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 Olympic Exclusion Zone. Each excursion into the wilderness brings unique and strange challenges as you restore and upgrade your car from an abandoned garage that acts as your home base. Gather precious resources and investigate what’s been left behind in the Zone; unravel a long-forgotten mystery while learning exactly what it takes to survive in this unpredictable, hostile environment.

Also known as PenDriverPro, PenDriverPro.exe

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Storyline
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 able to make the trip down the hill into the valley. Here you come across an abandoned auto shop which becomes your base of operations, where you safely repair and improve your car between runs. Do your best to survive, solve mysteries, and search for a way out — or become part of the ongoing legends of the Zone.Read more

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 able to make the trip down the hill into the valley. Here you come across an abandoned auto shop which becomes your base of operations, where you safely repair and improve your car between runs. Do your best to survive, solve mysteries, and search for a way out — or become part of the ongoing legends of the Zone.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Feb 22, 2024
PlayStation 5
Feb 22, 2024
Xbox Series X|S
Oct 23, 2025
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main Story
25h
Main + Extras
36h
Completionist
74h
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
First person
Keywords
post-apocalyptic, exploration, retro, investigation, 3d
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At a Glance

Critic Score
84
Main Story (IGDB)
25h
Main + Extras (IGDB)
36h
Completionist (IGDB)
74h

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Steam users rate this Very Positive, 21,697 reviews in all languages, recorded 16 October 2026

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