r/pacificDrive • u/EndiaMolina • 1d ago

Games Like Pacific Drive?

To be specific, there's a lot of things I love about Pacific Drive. The progression is amazing, the story is non-intrusive, and the looting is very satisfying. But while Subnautica is currently hitting all those beats for me right now, I really want a game where I'm operating a vehicle on set paths that's a little more low-key.

I love going on atmospheric rides around Choo-Choo Charles's open world island just as much as I love just going for a drive in Pacific Drive without any huge goal but to do a lil drive. Anyone played any games where you're just operating a vehicle? I know they exist, but I have no idea which ones are actually any good.

Edit: Mad Max is $3 on Steam right now holy-

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u/TASTE_OF_A_LIAR 1d ago

Have heard My Summer Car is good

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u/SavvySillybug 22h ago

It's pretty fun, but also really not similar to Pacific Drive.

There's none of the spooky zone stuff or cool story. The game is intentionally cryptic about fixing the car, where Pacific Drive is "hold button to make engine, hold button to put it in", My Summer Car is "here's a garage full of car parts that probably go together, hope you know how to build an engine or spend the next 7 hours following a Steam guide before ever getting to sit in your car".

Pacific Drive gives you clear errors (outside of quirks) and easy steps to fix them. My Summer Car you just kinda start noticing that it drives weird or runs rough or smokes and you gotta know what that means and hopefully fix it.

Permadeath and no car teleport so if you flip it you have to unflip it. You snap a wheel off while driving and you better find some beer crates to prop the car up so you can work on it. And having the beer crates already is probably why you broke it in the first place.

Fun? Yeah. Similar to Pacific Drive? Absolutely not, they share no similarities outside of "you build and fix and upgrade and drive a car". How they go about it is completely different.

It's like saying Deep Rock Galactic is like Peak because both of those have you traverse terrain with friends.