Compara los precios de Pacific Drive en tiendas de claves de confianza y encuentra la mejor oferta. Desarrollado por Ironwood Studios. Publicado por Kepler Interactive. Lanzado el 21/2/2024. Disponible en PC. Géneros: Action, Adventure, Indie, Racing, Simulation.
A paranormal survival road trip that turns a beat-up station wagon into your best friend and worst enemy, all set in a creepy sci-fi Pacific Northwest exclusion zone.
My first instinct when loading up Pacific Drive was to treat it like a driving game. That instinct is wrong, and the sooner you correct it, the better your time will be. <cite index="1-7,1-8">What you actually get is a survival driving adventure that defies tidy genre labels, landing somewhere between Dredge's eerie resource loops and Car Mechanic Simulator's tactile obsession with vehicle upkeep.</cite> The setting is a fictionalized version of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, fenced off as the Olympic Exclusion Zone, and it is dripping with atmosphere. <cite index="9-30,9-31">You roam this abandoned stretch of the 1998 Pacific Northwest on foot or in your station wagon, scavenging junk vehicles and derelict buildings for resources you store in the trunk.</cite> The zone wants you dead in interesting, creative ways, and that tension is the game's biggest asset.
The core loop runs like this: plan a route at the garage, drive into a randomly instanced junction, scavenge materials while managing anomalies, and then race back to the garage before the zone collapses around you. <cite index="2-17">The extraction phase is by far one of the most exhilarating parts of that loop, especially when timing has been slightly mismanaged.</cite> Back at base, you pour those materials into upgrading the car itself, which is the real star of the show. <cite index="4-9,4-10">At the garage, you can fix up, fuel up, charge up, and stock up your station wagon using gathered materials, and there is even an outfitting station you can unlock later for upgrades to the squishy human side of things.</cite> The Quirk system gives your car unpredictable personality traits over time, like a door that swings open whenever you flip the headlights, which sounds annoying but somehow makes you more attached to the thing. <cite index="1-12,1-13">The simulator-style vehicle mechanics connect you to your car in a strangely obsessive way, producing some of the most novel character-building in recent memory. Rather than growing attached to a human protagonist, you bond with a hunk of metal on four tires.</cite>
Now, a few honest warnings for the crowd I usually write for. This is a solo experience only. No split-screen, no co-op, no Saturday night tournament potential. <cite index="8-1,8-2">Players who enjoy the core loop often cite it as genuinely addictive, but frustration over the absence of racing wheel support is a common grievance, and it is a valid one for wheel-and-pedal owners.</cite> On keyboard and mouse it is functional; on a gamepad it is the recommended approach for most people. The actual driving physics are loose by design, since your wagon is beaten half to death, but <cite index="6-4,6-5,6-6">the cars do not handle particularly well, and while that makes contextual sense for an abandoned post-apocalyptic vehicle, it can genuinely feel like a struggle to drive in a straight line, especially through corners.</cite> If you came in expecting snap-response rally handling, this will test your patience.
The post-launch updates from Ironwood Studios have done real work on accessibility. <cite index="3-4">The Drive Your Way update added over 50 adjustable gameplay settings, letting you tweak terrain impact, storm intensity, damage modifiers, and crafting requirements</cite>, which goes a long way toward bringing in players who bounced off the original brutal defaults. <cite index="10-38,10-39">If the survival elements feel overwhelming early on, the options menu lets you adjust or even disable things like damage and durability,</cite> so the experience scales more than you might expect. The story delivers its narrative through audio logs and radio chatter, and the community is split on whether that is atmospheric storytelling or a frustrating lack of direction. <cite index="14-7">Gameplay and world-building tend to earn stronger praise than the story itself,</cite> which is worth knowing going in. If you want a tight narrative payoff, this might leave you a little cold. If you want a weird, tense, deeply personal survival game built around the relationship between you and one very quirky station wagon, Pacific Drive is unlike almost anything else on PC right now.
Riley, Scout Team
