Pacific Drive

I first thought it was just a driving game with collecting stuff, though, I got proven wrong pretty fast. I immediately fell in love with this game after knowing I can be chased by a instability storm and stuff. 10/10 game, sad that it didn’t get a big fandom though… I’ll forever love this game

swing and a miss. i like chill road trip games, i like scp-esque weird anomaly horror, i like some element of survival or management in my games, so this should be like digital heroin. instead i bounced off it hard because it's not very good at capturing that "road trip" vibe. travelling to a location means going into your garage, clicking on a map, and then being taken to it offscreen instead of driving there and maybe finding stuff along the way. the maps themselves are way too packed, there's a POI every few minutes and you spend more time out of your car than you do in it. it doesn't feel isolated enough to really heighten the horror. there's far too much emphasis on activities outside the car that make it feel like it's just a vehicle instead of your only lifeline even if that's the case storywise. i thought it'd be like the long drive where the focus was primarily the car. the story really isn't that interesting and the characters are just kinda generic archetypes who yap a bit too much to give you that lone explorer vibe you'd expect from, say, STALKER. you have quirky funny engineer mechanic man, snarky old scientist woman, and some other guy i completely forgot about.

I got this game cause my roommate said it was the first videogame story he had played and enjoyed. I'd seen a couple content creators make videos on it but never got more than 20 minutes into a playthrough video. That was until it went on sale a few weeks ago and I thought "sure why not" and bought the game for around 9 dollars. Incredibly worthwhile purchase, the characters are great, I enjoy how they managed to make them so interesting despite all of their conversations with you being entirely one-way. The gameplay loop is addicting while also not getting too repetitive until near the very end. The different panels, door, bumpers, abilities, and other upgrades you can get for your car feel interesting and unique, all with nice designs. Getting some of the later game stuff might require a bit of a grind (and some luck) but most of it isn't really necessary for finishing the game. Now on the topic of the story, on the surface it look pretty simplistic (and some parts of it are), but it's very well done and managed to keep me engaged. I'm a fan of the scientific mystery mixed with paranormal happenings idea, and I think this game did it well. TL;DR - The game is well put together with a good cast and an interesting story packed on top of a good gameplay loop. I'd give this game a 9/10.

Lots of fun

This game got me to enjoy driving games again. its sad to see people so mixed on this game because this game honestly has had alot of love and attention poured into it, between both this and the DLC, theres alot to enjoy here. plus alot of grievances with the game can be solved by adjusting gameplay settings, though i preferred to keep the settings on default this game is basically what you would get if the SCP universe and Car mechanic simulator had a baby and im honestly loving every moment of it. Im not even done with the game yet sitting here at 88 hours and i suspect i'll be going at least another 20 possibly 30 hours before I finish (granted this is me playing both the DLC and the base game together) I dont even see it as grindy, the progression is solid already, and both the storyline of the whispering woods and the story line of the main game have great storytelling and worldbuilding. if you want something to keep you busy for a while and love the concept of exploring a dangerous zone full of scientific and otherworldly anomalies, I highly recommend playing the game and picking up the DLC too, theres various combinations of parts you can utilize to give you an edge throughout your journey and if you go into the dlc, there are combinations of artifacts that work very well the boost the car's power and survivability that also get more powerful if the car has certian quirks.

Just past the refund period. This game is just too frustrating. Battery dies while car is running, storms come so the clock is ticking but you don't know that. Been trying to figure out how to put the paint on the car for a half hour and I'm just done. Some really interesting bones here but this isn't it.

Хорошая атмосферная игра. Приятно покататься по Олимпийской зоне отчуждения. Есть гринд, но он не душит, ресурсы быстро собираются. Оптимизация нормальная.

after 10 hours the fear was gone and I started to adore the broken world that the zone is so much fun