Pacific Drive

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Pacific Drive thrusts players into the Olympic Peninsula — a mysterious and hazardous Pacific Northwest region seized by the US government in 1955. Using a barely functional station wagon found deep in the woods, players navigate the forested landscape, upgrading their vehicle at an abandoned auto shop turned base of operations. Gameplay revolves around driving through the treacherous terrain, encountering anomalies, and braving dangers both inside and outside the safety of the car. With each run, players uncover more about the Zone's mysteries, gradually progressing deeper into the darkness while striving to survive and escape.

• Release date: 02-22-2024
• Developer: Ironwood Studios
• Publisher: Kepler Interactive
• Platforms: PlayStation 5, Windows PC

Triggers for this game

Crime

• Explosions & Bombs

  • Can't be avoided

Disturbing Sounds & Sound Design

• Distorted Music

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  The music and radio are sometimes distorted; the audio on the radio changes depending on if you are in the car or on foot (can be disabled by turning off audio post-processing)

  • Can't be avoided
  • Has options to remove or avoid trigger

• Distorted Voices

  Very occasionally

  • Can't be avoided

• Sirens & Alarms

  Occasional

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  Major anomaly storms will appear in unstable zones, accompanied by sirens alerting you that you need to escape

  • Can't be avoided

Financial & Resource Management

• Poverty

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  The game world is populated by run-down shacks that might give the appearance of poverty

  • Can't be avoided

• Scarcity

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  Resource gathering is an important aspect of the game; you're often running short of resources you need/want

  • Can't be avoided

Horror Themes

• Chase & Pursuit

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  You sometimes have to run from anomalies and storms that chase you

  • Can't be avoided

• Ghosts & Hauntings

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  A wide variety of strange and unsettling anomalies populate the world, that you must avoid or mitigate

  • Can't be avoided

• Monsters

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  A wide variety of strange and unsettling anomalies populate the world, that you must avoid or mitigate

  • Can't be avoided

• Possession

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  Your car is a "Remnant", a supernatural object that exerts an influence over its human counterpart

  • Can't be avoided

Mental Health

• Hallucinations

  Mentioned

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  Some of the NPC voices on the radio talk about a past "mass hallucination event"

  • Can't be avoided

• Mental Illness

  Craziness

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  Craziness — The storyline has a focus on the player trying to find a way to avoid being "driven crazy."

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Mental Health

  Attention-juggling (which may cause anxiety or executive dysregulation); loneliness

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  At times, the game presents the player with several demands for attention simultaneously (i.e., driving your car, looking at the map, looking for important landmarks, avoiding anomalies, listening to the radio, all simultaneously). Loneliness — The game has no other people besides the player; the only other characters you encounter are just voices on the radio.

  • Can't be avoided

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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  Some of the NPC voices on the radio talk about dealing with past trauma

  • Can't be avoided

Natural Events

• Natural Disaster

  The game takes place in the exclusion zone that has been abandoned due to a wide-scale disaster

  • Can't be avoided

• Storms

  Both natural and supernatural storms and other extreme weather events, including thunderstorms and gale-force winds

  • Can't be avoided

Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence

• Bullying

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  One of the major NPC voices on the radio is occasionally cruel, dismissive, or verbally abusive to the other NPC voices and rarely the player

  • Can't be avoided

• Harassment

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  One of the major NPC voices on the radio is occasionally cruel, dismissive, or verbally abusive to the other NPC voices and rarely the player

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence

  Colonialism

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  Colonialism — the game makes passing reference to large areas of land being seized by the government under eminent domain.

  • Can't be avoided

• Psychological Abuse

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  One of the major NPC voices on the radio is occasionally cruel, dismissive, or verbally abusive to the other NPC voices and rarely the player

  • Can't be avoided

Phobias

• Acrophobia

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  You might occasionally drive across a tall, narrow bridge or down a steep incline; various game bugs may occur, such as one that causes folks to be teleported on top of a tall tower with no safe way to descend

  • Can't be avoided

• Agoraphobia

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  The Auto Shop is the player's safe base, but every other location has risks and dangers

  • Can't be avoided

• Automatonophobia

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  You will occasionally encounter an anomaly called "tourists", which are mannequins or dummies.

  • Can't be avoided

• Megalophobia

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  A variety of skyscraper-sized structures, usually just outside the play area as backdrop but sometimes within the play area

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Phobias

  Decidophobia (Fear of making decisions)

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  Ancraophobia (Fear of wind or drafts), Autophobia (Fear of being alone), Catagelophobia (Fear of being ridiculed), Ceraunophobia (Fear of thunder and lightning), Dystychiphobia (Fear of accidents), Electrophobia (Fear of electricity), Gephyrophobia (Fear of bridges), Hylophobia (Fear of forests), Ligyrophobia (Fear of loud noises), Nyctohylophobia (fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night), Soteriophobia (fear of dependence on others), Vehophobia (Fear of driving)

  • Can't be avoided

• Nyctophobia

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  Time passes between and during excursions, meaning the player will sometimes be on an excursion at night; this can be mitigated with a "faster nights" difficult option, but there's no way to avoid it entirely by "sleeping" to skip forward in time until daylight

  • Can't be avoided
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• Traumatophobia

  • Can't be avoided

Physical Health & Body Issues

• Pain & Physical Suffering

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  While you can get injured, this can be disabled in settings. Same goes for damage to your car.

  • Is avoidable
  • Can't be avoided

Traumatic Events

• Accidents

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Traumatic Events

  Hallucinations

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  NPC voices on the radio mention a "mass hallucination event" in the setting's history several times

  • Can't be avoided

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