Games Like Pacific Drive

Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Driving 35.4%, Survival 17%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Exploration 8.3%, First-Person 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended road-trip survival structure centers on maintaining a vehicle, gathering supplies, and pushing through dangerous terrain.

Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.

Why similar: Driving 38.2%, Survival 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Exploration 7.6%, First-Person 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A vehicle-dependent survival road trip where fuel, repairs, scavenging, and improvisation determine how far you can travel.

Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

Why similar: Driving 49.3%, Survival 17.6%, First-Person 9.2%, Simulation 6%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Pacific Drive's intimate focus on maintaining, packing, upgrading, and nursing an unreliable car across hazardous journeys.

My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.

Why similar: Driving 47.2%, Survival 19.2%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.6%, First-Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its famously detailed car assembly and maintenance make every drive feel earned, even though its tone is much more mundane and comedic.

Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15%, Survival 14.7%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its contaminated exclusion-zone setting, supernatural sci-fi threats, scavenging, crafting, and story-driven expeditions closely echo Pacific Drive's tone.

Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.

Why similar: Transportation 27.1% ★, Driving 26.6%, Survival 10.3%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the appeal of maintaining a beloved vehicle while making isolated, hazardous trips through an unsettling science-fiction frontier.

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Survival 15.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Replace the station wagon with an airship in this survival exploration game about upgrading a mobile home and venturing into dangerous zones for resources.

Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.

Why similar: Driving 34.7%, Post-apocalyptic 25.5%, Survival 14.9%, Exploration 5.4%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic road adventure built around upgrading a personal vehicle, scavenging hostile regions, and using your car as a survival asset.

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.2%, Survival 27%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Exploration 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is another atmospheric trek through a deadly anomaly-ridden exclusion zone where preparation, artifacts, and survival are central.

DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

Why similar: Exploration 25.3%, Survival Horror 21.9%, Horror 13%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Story Rich 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact expedition loop of upgrading a vessel, venturing into increasingly uncanny waters, and returning safely with salvaged goods feels very Pacific Drive-like.

Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

Why similar: Survival 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Story Rich 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its lonely, hostile open world combines resource scavenging, crafting, tense exploration, and keeping a customizable bike fueled and repaired.

Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!

Why similar: Driving 25.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It directly combines post-apocalyptic open-world survival with resource gathering and travel in a vital personal vehicle.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Crafting 16.8%, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its drillship functions as a mobile survival base that must be upgraded, stocked, and used to escape a dangerous, hostile world.

Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 18%, Sandbox 13.7%, First-Person 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A customizable train serves as your moving refuge in this zombie survival game focused on scavenging stops and improving your mobile base.

An atmospheric management RPG about life on the open road. Pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs, customize and repair your car, and map your route across the country. Use upgrades, skills and items to overcome challenges. And remember to take it easy. You’re young. You have time.

Why similar: Driving 61.8%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Exploration 13.3%, Adventure 6.5%, Simulation 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric road-trip RPG focuses on packing supplies, managing car problems, and making uncertain journeys across a changing landscape.

Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.

Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Survival Horror 14%, Horror 10.8%, Atmospheric 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This VR survival shooter strongly matches the unnerving anomaly-zone exploration, artifact scavenging, and careful preparation of each excursion.

A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.

Why similar: Survival 45.1%, Crafting 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Exploration 7.5%, Adventure 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This survival journey makes a small raft your fragile means of escape as you scavenge, craft, and navigate an unforgiving procedural wilderness.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Survival 20.2%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12.3%, Sci-fi 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This irreverent space-survival game mixes crafting and scavenging with maintaining improvised transport while exploring dangerous sci-fi debris fields.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Crafting 16.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A constantly upgraded train becomes your traveling base as you gather resources and make risky forays into strange, hostile dimensions.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Survival 21.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival Horror 9.2%, Horror 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: While underwater rather than on the road, it similarly revolves around upgrading a vehicle, gathering materials, and exploring a mysterious lethal environment.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Survival 35.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Exploration 9%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its deliberate survival systems, lonely environmental storytelling, and constant need to prepare before leaving shelter match Pacific Drive's tension well.

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Story Rich 18.3%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Exploration 11.3%, Sci-fi 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the meditative but threatening expedition feel of planning routes, carrying critical cargo, and traversing a supernatural post-apocalypse.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Survival 38.1%, Base Building 29%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Sandbox 7.1%, Simulation 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Vehicles are crucial for hauling supplies and escaping zombie-infested scavenging runs while you manage survival resources and a safe haven.

SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

Why similar: Survival 37.9%, Post-apocalyptic 28.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Exploration 8.5%, First-Person 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world zombie survival sandbox lets you scavenge abandoned places, manage needs, and rely on vehicles for dangerous travel and storage.

Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!

Why similar: Survival 27.2%, Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 13.2%, Exploration 10%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic delivery game about maintaining transports, managing cargo and supplies, and surviving risky journeys across a ruined world.

Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!

Why similar: Driving 48.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Exploration 10.8%, First-Person 8%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the satisfying practical side of Pacific Drive: carefully preparing a vehicle and overcoming brutal terrain through smart driving and upgrades.

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Driving 15.4%, Transportation 14.8% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Survival 15.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Sandbox 9.7%

Survive the apocalypse behind the wheel. Drive endless Highways, scavenge parts to build and arm your vehicle, and plow through massive zombie hordes. Mount turrets, fortify your ride, and outlast the dead - Solo or Up to 4 Player Multiplayer co-op

Why similar: Driving 32.1%, Survival 15.7%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Sandbox 8.2%

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 35.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 12%, Survival Horror 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its uncompromising scavenging survival gameplay makes cars valuable for transport, storage, escape, and long-term survival planning.

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 51.2%, Survival 29.1%, Simulation 6.7%, Adventure 6.4%, Horror 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This compact road-survival game is built around keeping a vehicle running, rationing scarce resources, and making hard choices on a deadly trip.

Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic, driving, survival, fps, open-world game. Fight, help, trade with different factions. Find different cars and customize them. Scavenge, loot and survive the procedurally generated, open world of Apocalypter.

Why similar: Driving 41.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Survival 18.4%, Exploration 5.1%, Simulation 4.8%

As the night darkens and you set out for home, an unsettling occurrence takes place on the road. Will this lead you to hell? Unveil the truth in a bone-chilling driving horror game that will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Why similar: Driving 32.6%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Exploration 10.8%, Horror 9.5%

My Winter Car is the ultimate challenge for project car owning, building, fixing, tuning and maintenance simulator. Sequel to My Summer Car, but with added challenge for those who can master the original game!

Why similar: Driving 40.2%, Transportation 22.1% ★, Survival 15.4%, First-Person 8%, Simulation 6.5%

As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

Why similar: Driving 36.2%, Transportation 24.8% ★, Building 13.1%, Base Building 7.8%, Exploration 6.5%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Survival Horror 13.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Crafting 11%

Experience an award-winning, story-driven sci-fi survival game. Help Jan Dolski, the survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoil with his unconventional crew.

Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Exploration 8.9%

The winds of the frozen wasteland are calling in this atmospheric horror game. Operate an aging vehicle to locate the missing driver of the previous expedition. Be careful not to stray from the path...

Why similar: Driving 35.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Exploration 8.6%, First-Person 7.5%, Horror 7.3%

An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Survival 15.2%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival Horror 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Driving 8.8%

Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Sandbox 12.9%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Exploration 9.9%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Survival 18.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Building 9.7%

A hyper-realistic horror driving game set in a suburban environment. Drive through six different atmospheric experiences where an alien invasion, spider infestation, murderous mime, and other frightful events will happen.

Why similar: Driving 35.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Horror 10.3%, Exploration 8.7%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!

Why similar: Sandbox 46.4%, First-Person 23.3%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Adventure 9.6%, Action 8%

The Slaverian Trucker is a Survival/Truck/Life simulator game. Make enough money to survive and expand your wealth in the harsh semi-post apocalyptic lands of Slaveria, doing legal and illegal work, while maintaining, fixing, building, repairing, tuning your trucks, cars and other vehicles.

Why similar: Driving 31.4%, Transportation 29.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Survival 11%, Exploration 6.1%

IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?

Why similar: First-Person 26.3%, Simulation 24.1%, Atmospheric 21%, 3D 17%, Action 11.6%

It's run or die in a killer car infested city. Dash from dumpster to park bench and don’t make a wrong move. Ice cream trucks, snowplows and dodgy vans all want you dead. Decimate Drive, an indie game, is terrifyingly fast-paced and drenched in atmospheric horror.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.6%, Horror 13.5%, First-Person 12.6%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Exploration 10.1%

Explore a frozen, mysterious land in this top-down survival adventure. Gather resources, craft tools, and fight to stay alive as you uncover a story of memory and redemption. Try to escape The Hollow.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 10.2%

Every descent is a deadly gamble. DIVE or DIE in the cursed abyss, face Eldritch horrors to uncover the mystery of the black rain. Scavenge and upgrade, recruit and sacrifice. Save your camp... The Flood is coming.

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.5%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Exploration 8.3%

You. Your car. And world under the sand.

Why similar: Driving 32.9%, Survival 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Exploration 8.8%

Survive 🏚️, Gain Reputation ✊, Earn Money 💸, Build Your Car 🛠️, Win Races 🏁, Become a Legend 👑

Why similar: Driving 56.1%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Simulation 9.1%, First-Person 6.7%

Dead End Road is an atmospheric driving game, with a low-fi aesthetic and procedurally generated elements. Complete your journey to seek the assistance of the old witch at Dead End Road; Get there before daybreak and perhaps, just perhaps, you can escape this nightmare.

Why similar: Horror 66.8%, Action 33.2%

Welcome to "Night Drive," a driving simulator that challenges you to navigate a seemingly endless night in search of anomalies to break a mysterious loop.

Why similar: Exploration 24.5%, Simulation 23.7%, Horror 19.6%, First-Person 17.2%, 3D 9%

Join the Early Access journey with this immersive driving-survival game. Explore the harsh American wilderness in the Long Drive North. Drive & repair your trusty RV, scavenge for parts, upgrade your vehicle, hunt & cook to survive; alone or with up to 4 players. SHARED RV MULTIPLAYER NOW AVAILABLE.

Why similar: Driving 27.3%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Sandbox 8.9%

Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.

Why similar: Survival 31.1%, Exploration 17.4%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Story Rich 11%, Action-Adventure 10.5%

Expedition Zero — survival horror set in the anomaly zone of the northern forest. Face the dreadful forest monster and find a way to defeat it. Reveal the secrets of the lost expedition and your mysterious enemy. It’s either hunt or be hunted.

Why similar: Survival 16.7%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Sci-fi 8.4%

ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.2%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Exploration 9.7%, Story Rich 9.6%

Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.

Why similar: Sci-fi 33.4%, Story Rich 20.6%, First-Person 16.8%, Exploration 16.1%, Adventure 13%

In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?

Why similar: Survival Horror 14.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Building 7.4%