Give it a go and tell me what you think.
Now we end up trapped inside the Olympic Exclusion Zone and bonded with a supernatural station wagon.
I suppose I’d say Pacific Drive is a roguelikelike dungeon-crawling survival game?
The demo features the playable opening scene, the hub home garage, then the first mission.
I admire the confidence to have a soundtrack with lyrical songs, not chorals or instrumentals.
I like the weird anomalies, like rising rock “bollards” and eerie explosive mannequins.
I like the menace of seeing and hearing bad things through the trees.
I like how much is unspoken.
I like the radiofriends.
I really like that you’re able to hurt yourself by closing the boot while standing under it.
Windows can crack, tyres can pick up punctures or go bold, and so on.
It’s notthe bolt-by-bolt simulation of My Summer Carbut it is more involved than most cybercarcare.
To get these materials, you ransack buildings and chop up wrecked cars.
Unfortunately, the demo does a poor job of making the survival and roguelikelike elements interesting or appealing.
No puzzles, no real challenges, just chores.
This is only the demo, only the tutorial mission.
Perhaps those upgrades will be important, invaluable, as you face wilder hazards and anomalies.
I do like the sound of that.
I want to see where the story goes.
But I don’t want to spend hours picking litter to get there.
you could grab Pacific Drive’s Next Fest demoon Steam.
Launching in full on the 22nd of February, Pacific Drive will also be soldon the Epic Games Store.
It’ll cost 25/30/$30.
The Steam Next Fest runs until the 12th of February, so grab the demo while you could.
We’re playing heaps of Next Fest demos so hitour tagfor more recommendations.
