Games Like Pacific Drive

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

Why similar: Driving 38%, Survival 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Exploration 7.6%, First-Person 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest pure car-survival road trip on Steam, built around maintaining your vehicle while crossing a strange, lonely, hazardous landscape.

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 49.1%, Survival 17.6%, First-Person 9.3%, Simulation 6.1%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Pacific Drive, it makes the vehicle itself the heart of the game, with constant repair, part management, scavenging, and stressful road-trip survival.

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 27.2% ★, Driving 26.5%, Survival 10.3%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Pacific Drive’s 'vehicle as lifeline' appeal by turning every journey into a tense loop of maintenance, scavenging, planning, and surviving environmental threats.

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 15.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival structure of leaving your mobile base, looting dangerous locations, and upgrading your ship hits a very similar expedition-and-return rhythm.

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 14.6%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its exclusion-zone setting, anomaly-laced survival, scavenging, crafting, and heavy atmosphere make it one of the best thematic matches to Pacific Drive.

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 25.1%, Survival Horror 22%, Horror 13%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Story Rich 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Even with a fishing boat instead of a station wagon, it nails the same blend of upgrade-driven runs, creeping supernatural menace, and hostile exploration.

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 19.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the fantasy of a customizable vehicle-home carrying you through a surreal hostile world while you loot, craft, and push farther outward.

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 15.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This turns a giant drill into a roaming survival base, creating a similar loop of venturing into danger for resources and retreating to upgrade your lifeline.

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 17.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Managing and expanding a train while making risky scavenging trips into a deadly world closely mirrors Pacific Drive’s mobile-safehouse survival tension.

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 35.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Exploration 8.9%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great fit if your favorite part of Pacific Drive was the methodical survival prep, resource pressure, and atmospheric journeys into unforgiving 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%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Sci-fi 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers first-person survival, scavenging, crafting, and constant equipment maintenance in a hostile sci-fi environment with a similar run-prep-upgrade cadence.

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Driving 31.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Survival 13.4%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Exploration 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a distilled version of vehicle-as-companion gameplay, with lonely travel, constant machine upkeep, and a haunting post-apocalyptic atmosphere.

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 10.4%, Story Rich 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its bike-centered survival, fuel anxiety, roadside scavenging, and dangerous travel through a hostile open world give it a similar 'keep moving or die' energy.

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 34.6%, Post-apocalyptic 25.5%, Survival 14.9%, Exploration 5.4%, Action 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Though more combat-heavy, it shares Pacific Drive’s obsession with keeping a vehicle battle-ready while surviving across a bleak and punishing wasteland.

An atmospheric vehicle adventure that follows the emotional journey of a boy and his ship as he embarks on a voyage to find a new home.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 47.4%, Atmospheric 18.9%, Action-Adventure 18.4%, Adventure 8.8%, Action 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the same idea as Lone Sails into a more exploratory vehicle journey where maintaining your craft is tightly tied to survival and progress.

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%, Story Rich 18.4%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Exploration 11.3%, Sci-fi 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its careful route planning, cargo management, environmental hazards, and lonely atmospheric traversal scratch a lot of the same expedition-planning itch.

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%, Survival 19.2%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 7.7%, First-Person 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is much sillier in tone, but few games match Pacific Drive’s detailed relationship with a vehicle that must be assembled, maintained, and relied on to survive.

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 16.6%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its eerie exploration, survival-horror tone, crafting, and deadly supernatural threats make it a solid pick for the scarier side of Pacific Drive.

Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.3%, Survival 16%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Story Rich 10.2%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: For players who loved Pacific Drive’s blend of first-person scavenging, crafting, atmosphere, and dangerous journeys, Metro Exodus is a strong story-driven alternative.

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Driving 27.4%, Transportation 23.3% ★, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, First-Person 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Running and maintaining a vehicle through long hostile routes in first person gives it a similar mechanical appeal, even if it leans more sim than supernatural survival.

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 21.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival Horror 9.1%, Horror 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: If you liked Pacific Drive’s careful resource runs into an alien danger zone and returning to upgrade your means of survival, Subnautica delivers that brilliantly.

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 26.9%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Exploration 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its modern take on anomaly-filled zone exploration, survival pressure, and immersive first-person scavenging makes it a strong atmospheric follow-up.

Embark on a journey across vast landscapes in Caravan SandWitch, a captivating narrative-driven exploration adventure.

Why similar: Driving 47.1%, Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Exploration 12%, Action-Adventure 8%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a gentler take on vehicle-led exploration, focusing on road-trip discovery and atmospheric world traversal rather than pure survival horror.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 37%, Crafting 20.4%, Base Building 15%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its moving home base, scavenging loops, crafting progression, and constant survival maintenance echo Pacific Drive’s traveling-base structure.

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

Why similar: Survival 45%, Crafting 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Exploration 7.4%, Adventure 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This road-survival game swaps the station wagon for a raft but keeps the same feeling of traveling, scavenging, upgrading, and surviving one dangerous trip at a time.

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 35.3%, Survival 17%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Exploration 8.3%, First-Person 7.2%

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.8%, Survival 30.5%, Story Rich 8.5%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This turns a train into a fragile lifeline across a collapsing world, mixing tense travel with resource management and scavenging in a way Pacific Drive fans may appreciate.

Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.

Why similar: Survival 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its lonely first-person exploration, scavenging, and oppressive atmosphere in a hostile world make it a decent fit for players chasing Pacific Drive’s mood.

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 61.9%, Atmospheric 14%, Exploration 13.4%, Adventure 6.4%, Simulation 4.3%

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 15.3%, Transportation 14.9% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%

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 15.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Sandbox 9.8%

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%, Survival 15.6%, Survival Horror 15%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Sandbox 8.3%

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Survival 33.7%, Exploration 23.8%, Story Rich 21.2%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Adventure 7%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the different perspective, its strange hostile journeys, story-rich atmosphere, and vehicle-as-home structure make it a smart left-field recommendation.

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 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7.5%

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 11.7%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Exploration 10.8%, Horror 9.5%

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 24.4%, Base Building 22.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Exploration 8.8%

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%, Transportation 24.9% ★, 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 13.8%, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11%

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 35.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Exploration 8.6%, First-Person 7.6%, Horror 7.3%

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 30.8%, Exploration 17.2%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Story Rich 11.1%, Action-Adventure 10.5%

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

Why similar: Survival 15.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Driving 8.8%

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%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, 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 35.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Horror 10.2%, Exploration 8.6%, Atmospheric 8.3%

A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.1%, Survival 17.4%, First-Person 10.1%, Action-Adventure 7.4%, Adventure 6.7%

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 39.9%, Transportation 22.3% ★, Survival 15.3%, First-Person 8.1%, Simulation 6.6%

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 48.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Exploration 10.8%, First-Person 8.1%, Simulation 8%

Easy Delivery Co. is a relaxing driving game with strange secrets. Chill out, make deliveries and get to know the mysterious residents of this scenic mountain town, all while earning well below minimum wage.

Why similar: Driving 59.1%, Exploration 11.8%, Story Rich 10.7%, Atmospheric 8%, Simulation 6.1%

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 31.4%, Horror 13.5%, First-Person 12.8%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Exploration 10.1%

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 46.5%, First-Person 23.4%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Adventure 9.5%, Action 7.9%

You. Your car. And world under the sand.

Why similar: Driving 32.7%, Survival 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Exploration 8.8%

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 31.2%, Transportation 30% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Survival 10.9%, Exploration 6.1%

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 24.4%, Simulation 23.9%, Horror 19.5%, First-Person 17.3%, 3D 9.1%

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 27.1%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Sandbox 9%

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 22.1%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Exploration 9.7%, Story Rich 9.7%

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 15.3%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

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 66.9%, Action 33.1%

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

Why similar: Driving 56%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Simulation 9.2%, First-Person 6.7%

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Sci-fi 32.2%, Sandbox 25.2%, Simulation 14.2%, First-Person 14%, Building 12.7%