Pacific Drive Reviews

No, don't even bother to buy this game. The more I play, the more reasons I see to hate it. False Advertisment: -The escape scenes (that the game is marketed off of) isn't really exciting. It's boring. Maybe later in the game it gets better, but right now, 14 hours in, I don't know why it's really a threat. **EDIT An additional 13 hours in, and it still isn't anything fun or exciting.** Disrespectful: -The game just downright disrespects you and your time. If you die, you loose everything you've collected. If you abandoned an hour long run you loose everything you collect - but your car is still damaged! Also, the game will force you to do pointless runs to zones for no reason. It's happened to me several time now, wasting my time. **EDIT, another 13 hours in, and the game just gets worse. Dead Ends mean you HAVE to die. But if you have a fast PC, you click on the region and it doesn't tell you until after. -Also, your car will just take damage for no reason. Tires blow out, doors and panels will be destroyed, equipment mounted outside the car will just leak or break - and you didn't hit anything. -The game will also punish you later in the game for gather resources in earlier areas - by spawning anomolies right under your car TWICE! -Also, get ready to alt tab out of the game a whole lot to figure out what the game should tell you but doesn't. And sometimes it's about important info. Boredom: You will start to think "I've been here before" by just after the 2nd hour. Too late to refund. **EDIT Once you start to get somewhere, it gets a better. But it took several hours. Punishment: -Car takes damage for no reason. Car gets knocked around simply because you are in the middle of a pointless run the game forced you to make making it even harder to get to see the story (which doesn't even exist). -Characters you will never care about because they are just like children. -Game will force you to do a whole set of pointless runs just because. -Will punish you for doing what you are supposed to (gathering resources in a resource gathering game). Faggots: Yes, there is liberal LGBT bullshit that happens at an important moment. The whole scene is VERY cringe, over the radio, pathetic, and down right disrespectful to all, including faggots. There is a lot of potential here, but if your smart and you want to be paid to be punished for doing what your supposed to, go find a dominatrix. If your into that, you might enjoy it. DO NOT BUY (but if you must check it out, take a deep discount 80%).

Probably half way through the game now. Can say it is really enjoyable Great adaptation of "Roadside picnic" the book on which STALKER and now Pacific Drive is based. Go find it on youtube, it is there. I must say that I enjoy Pacific Drive more than STALKER. Pacific Drive is all about mood.

This is probably one of the weirdest games I have played. 15h and I still dont get this game. In some way its cool but I just dont see what is the point. Is this supposed to be scary game ?! I dont know Im tired of collecting scrap metal and duct tape. you cant die in the game yet you are constantly dying only to start again collecting scrap metal and duct tape to go to the same level to die again. I tryid to find "the thing" that this game is about and unless its about scrap metal and duct tape I didnt find it... If only there would be a time machine in the game to allow me to go back in time and not buy this game...

the game was fun until i hit a "dead end" and lost 3 hours worth of progress. long story short. i prepped for a long haul drive with a bunch of gear to prepare going to my objective 4 stops down. i get to the 3rd stop and it tells me its a dead end some how? then it tells me to abandon run but in doing so u lose a good amount of any thing u have in or on ur car. they did me SO dirty. they took 2 of my wheels, 2 storage racks on the side panels and ALL items in my trunk. now i have to grind for almost 2 hours to even get that shit back to even attempt the run again. the biggest kick in the balls tho? the route to my objective becomes available and the 3rd stop is no longer a dead end. yall really made me waste my time for a long haul just to make me do it all over again? sincerely to the devs from the bottom of my heart. fuck you and i was actually enjoying the game too. edit : i have discovered that u can simply turn off the lose items on abandon run or death in general. while this is a neat feature that still wont bring back the 3 hours worth of grinding i did to prepare for the long drive. i will be useing it if i ever do bother to play this game again.

It's dark. You're low on gas. You've made a pretty good haul so far, but you're feeling worse for the journey. Just one more anchor and you can all it quits. And then you hear it; storm sirens. Only this is no ordinary storm - you are now in the shrinking eye of a radioactive storm of unmaking. You have to go. GO NOW. Your car is a piece of shit. Truly. You've replaced every part a dozen times, the radio turns on whenever you close the trunk, and when you first found it, it couldn't do things like "turn left". And right now it's your only hope of survival. The gateway opens up - a luminous pillar of yellow light in the distance that is your salvation. The eye is closing and if you stick to the road you won't make it in time. Reluctantly, you veer into the treeline. Your ride jerks uncomfortably as you mow down flora. Suddenly there's a loud THUNK as something hits your car - an anomalous, unthinking entity, affectionately named a Broken Bunny. Suddenly your headlights start blinking on and off. The doors all open at once. The radio turns on again for no reason and through distorted static you hear a preacher yelling at you about Jesus. The wheel jerks out of your grip and you veer into a ditch. Shit shit shit! Crowbar in hand, you leap out of the car and smack the thing into a million pieces. You car is exorcised, but now you're facing the wrong way in a hole. You get back in and try to drive out, but the angle is too steep. An angry yellow light covers the sky. You're now past the threshold and the storm is closing in on you. You're taking damage just being out here. This is bad. Getting out at this point is lethal. You turn your wheel and manage to get some grip on the dirt sideways rather than upwards and after the longest 20 seconds of your life you're finally on level ground again. Through the trees you can see the gate way! You hit the gas with everything you've got. Anything you hit no longer matters as long as you keep moving. The sky has now become red. The eye has totally collapsed and the radioactive storm is now in full effect. You can see the trees - the ground! - all disappearing. From somewhere there's a sound of screaming that you can't tell is from your car or the air itself. You're yards away from the gateway now! The light almost filling your vision completely! Something cracks around you. Your radio, headlights, doors, all are going haywire. There's radiation everywhere and you feel yourself dying! You're here! You're at the gateway! Light envelops you entirely! There's the sound of electricity and a blinding flash- - And suddenly you're back. Back at the auto shop. Both you and your ride barely survived, but you did. Somehow. You breathe out. You pull in to the familiar comfort of your home in this strange land. The next little while is going to be spent repairing the damage, taking stock of your booty, and upgrading your ride so that you can go ever deeper, into more treacherous waters, and facing deadlier terrors. To find your only hope at escape.

This is a real odd one because I have no idea how so many people enjoy this game. A driving game where the driving sucks. A survival game where the threat is unspecified and random energy garbles. Kinda a fun premise maybe? Lesson learned is that if it is the end of the world you probably don't want to be driving the pacific northwest in some POS station wagon on 2 spares.

An unusual world that you can explore at your leisure spans in front of you. I happened to spend a significant amount of time checking every nook and cranny, and even now there are still things I don't understand. Comes with a great story that drives you to survive. That said, the game let's you discover and interact with the world at your own pace, with the main mission being available to you when you are ready to press on. Also, a quick note for those interested in discovering more: try dropping crafted materials and looking at their 3D models. A lot of these assets tend not to be seen in regular gameplay since they are a means to crafting upgrades for your station wagon.

The car has more personality than most people I know. It's a lot of fun on higher difficulties. Due to its save system, it is a bit hard to recommend to people who don't have the time to sit for more than an hour at a time, though.

Not for actual adults who have responsibilities- you can't save it and can only play when you have a long stretch of time. Premise is fun but in reality it's a literal grind.

Lacking basic modern save functionality, disrespects my free time. I am an adult with more important commitments than a video game and the content isn't engaging enough to be worth replaying every time I get called away. Technical and performance issues can be forgiven for an indie but the lack of save on exit and 30+ minutes between saves can be infuriating.