In Ironwood Studios’ game, our car will be our refuge, but our journey won’t be tedious…

Pacific Drive was announced during State of Play. It’s a “run-based, first-person driving survival game. Your car is your only companion as you navigate a surreal and anomaly-filled reimagining of the Pacific Northwest. Structured as a “road-like,” 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. With the car as your lifeline, you’ll unravel a long-forgotten mystery as you make your way to the heart of the Olympic Exclusion Zone.

First-person run-based driving survival gameplay. Form a unique bond with a fully customizable car that develops its quirks and personality. Tense driving from behind the wheel, with moments of vulnerability when you step out to gather resources and make repairs. Each repeatable trip into the Zone is unique and randomized from your upgradeable garage. Systems-driven gameplay that allows for player freedom, creativity, and experimentation. Unravel a long-forgotten mystery of the Olympic Exclusion Zone as you explore a surreal and anomaly-filled version of the Pacific Northwest. Original score by Wilbert Roget, II and featuring more than 15 licensed songs,” the developers’ overview reads. (This zone is not the same as the zone in Chornobyl, as seen in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., because we are not in Ukraine.)

Pacific Drive already has a website and will offer English, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean language support. It will be released for PlayStation 5 and PC sometime in 2023. The concept is interesting, and the game’s randomness is reminiscent of No Man’s Sky (only here, our spaceship is replaced by a garage). The game looks promising, but it’s too early to judge the Seattle-based studio’s product based on what we’ve seen.

Source: Gematsu