Pacific Drive
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $9.89, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jan 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.46/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 27,200
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Score at full price
Score today
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 21.3h
- To 100%
- 48.4h 2.3x the story
- Finish
- 11% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 49
Price and sales
- Sales
- 29 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $9.89 April 2026
- Sale every
- 34d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 355 now
- Recent reviews
- 81% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.89. That was April 2026. Across all 29 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Subnautica: Below Zero ($29.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Die Young ($9.99, scores 52).
More about Pacific Drive
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 21.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 24 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 1,767 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 21.3 hours. Doing everything runs 48, 2.3 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
A unique combination of roguelike survival and driving, with a horror themed experience. This is not a game that is easy to sum up, despite being a simple concept. By all metrics, I should not like this game. I do not like driving games in general. I do not typically enjoy the gameplay cycle of driving to a place before doing something. I also do not like horror games in general. Jumpscares tend to make me angry and...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I love this game because it fits perfectly in my day as a Freelancer. The Jukebox has a awesome Indie Songs Collection with amazing random game-related intermissions, perfect as background while I work. My day: - Wake up - Coffee - Juke Box - Work - Driving for my live, out of the Storm, racing between Trees into the Light, screaming "Emeeergency"....) - Fix the car - Household/Kids - Sleep - Repeat
I love the concept, and I love the idea of a super customisable vehicle being the centrepiece of the game. It's a shame the gameplay is so dull. There is no combat, just avoid stuff that hurts you and scrap stuff for resources. The ultra poor durability of my tools got old fast. Just make them last forever, having them break every 5 minutes is just irritating, focus the resource usage on upgrades and meaningful...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pacific Drive scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1458140/pacific-driveReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.