Games like Pacific Drive
If Pacific Drive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chernobylite Complete Edition, HorrorDriven: A story for the road and Nightmare Drive — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric horror, car upgrade system and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Pacific Drive is a survival driving game set in the mysterious Olympic Exclusion Zone where players navigate a supernatural realm in their customizable station wagon. Released in 2024, the title blends elements from multiple genres including action, adventure, simulation, and racing. Core mechanics include anomaly-navigating, car-upgrade systems, crafting, garage management, procedural generation, and a radio-narrative structure that delivers story beats. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, eerie, immersive, stressful, and tense, finding hooks in the atmospheric horror elements, the bond formed with their vehicle, and the roguelite progression loop. The game is playable on Steam Deck and costs $9.89 USD. According to Steam reviews, it holds an 83% positive rating from over 13,000 reviews, with a long, challenging solo campaign that Ironwood Studios developed and Kepler Interactive published.
About Pacific Drive: 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.
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Chernobylite Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for Pacific Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
HorrorDriven: A story for the road
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pacific Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
A first-person horror game set in a desolate radioactive zone. Explore the world both on foot or with your car which also acts as a mobile base on your journey. Scavenge for resources, lose your mind and try to piece together what made this nightmare come to life.
Nightmare Drive
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Pacific Drive.
Third-strongest match for Pacific Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
The apocalypse didn't end the world, it just emptied the roads. Build your vehicle up from salvaged parts, manage resources and drive across endless highways. When midnight comes, the hordes hunt, a Road Trip Game
The Long Dark
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Pacific Drive.
Ranked #4 for Pacific Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pacific Drive.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Zompizza : The Last Delivery
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Pacific Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Pacific Drive.
Run a pizzeria in a zombie apocalypse and deliver pizzas to survivors! Survive day by day racing through the dangerous streets. Can you escape the fate? Selling a lot of pizzas is the only way.
Subnautica: Below Zero
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pacific Drive.
Ranked #6 for Pacific Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pacific Drive.
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
The Slaverian Trucker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pacific Drive.
Ranked #7 for Pacific Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pacific Drive.
The Slaverian Trucker is a Survival/Truck/Life simulator game. Make enough money to survive and expand your wealth in the harsh semi-post apocalyptic lands of Slaveria, doing legal and illegal work, while maintaining, fixing, building, repairing, tuning your trucks, cars and other vehicles.
Sons Of The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pacific Drive.
Ranked #8 for Pacific Drive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pacific Drive.
Reviewers of Pacific Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pacific Drive.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pacific Drive.
Reviewers of Pacific Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Pacific Drive.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pacific Drive.
Reviewers of Pacific Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Pacific Drive.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
The Long Drive
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Reviewers of Pacific Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.
Star Trucker
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Pacific Drive.
Reviewers of Pacific Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Pacific Drive.
Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.
Jalopy
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pacific Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pacific Drive.
Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
Stalker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pacific Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pacific Drive.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Pacific Drive.
Reviewers of Pacific Drive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Pacific Drive.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pacific Drive at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pacific Drive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pacific Drive.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pacific Drive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Pacific Drive on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pacific Drive.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pacific Drive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pacific Drive.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pacific Drive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pacific Drive.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Pacific Drive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Pacific Drive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pacific Drive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Pacific Drive.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pacific Drive.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pacific Drive.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pacific Drive.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pacific Drive.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Frequently asked about Pacific Drive
- Does Pacific Drive run on Steam Deck?
- Pacific Drive is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Pacific Drive cost?
- Pacific Drive is listed on Steam at 9.89 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pacific Drive?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pacific Drive are Chernobylite Complete Edition, HorrorDriven: A story for the road, Nightmare Drive.
- Who developed Pacific Drive?
- Pacific Drive was developed by Ironwood Studios and published by Kepler Interactive.
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