Pacific Drive similar games & best alternatives

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

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

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 Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Leadership.

Last update: 04/08/2026