Games Like Pacific Drive

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

Why similar: Driving 37.7%, Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Exploration 7.6%, First-Person 7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest match to Pacific Drive’s lonely first-person car survival feel, with constant roadside looting, repairs, and unpredictable journeys through an empty world.

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 48.8%, Survival 17.5%, First-Person 9.4%, Simulation 6.2%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It similarly revolves around maintaining a fragile car, scavenging supplies, and making tense road-trip decisions where your vehicle is your only real lifeline.

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 27.6% ★, Driving 26.2%, Survival 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same 'vehicle as everything' appeal by turning your rig into a maintainable survival space while you haul through dangerous, atmospheric routes.

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 15.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Pacific Drive, it centers on upgrading a mobile vehicle-home while exploring a hazardous anomaly-ridden world for resources in first-person.

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 46.8%, Survival 19%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 7.8%, First-Person 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its deep first-person car upkeep and survival systems deliver the same intimate attachment to a temperamental vehicle, even if the tone is less supernatural.

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 14.4%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Pacific Drive’s exclusion-zone dread, scavenging, crafting, story focus, and supernatural sci-fi survival-horror atmosphere.

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 19.4%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Your train functions like Pacific Drive’s station wagon: a customizable mobile base carrying you through surreal danger while you gather resources and improve your odds.

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%, Survival Horror 22%, Horror 13%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Story Rich 9%

Why You'll Like It: It nails the same blend of vehicle upkeep, inventory management, unsettling anomalies, and pushing your luck on one more eerie trip into the unknown.

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 16.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 15.5%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This swaps the car for a drillship, but the loop of venturing out, scavenging under pressure, and retreating to upgrade your mobile lifeline is very similar.

Discover the vast Chornobyl Exclusion Zone full of dangerous enemies, deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts. Unveil your own epic story as you make your way to the Heart of Chornobyl. Make your choices wisely, as they will determine your fate in the end.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.2%, Survival 26.6%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Exploration 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: If Pacific Drive’s anomalous exclusion zone is what grabbed you most, this delivers a much heavier survival-shooter take on scavenging through supernatural danger.

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

Why similar: Survival 44.8%, Crafting 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Exploration 7.4%, Adventure 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its run-based survival structure and vehicle-dependent journey through hostile territory strongly echo Pacific Drive’s risk-reward expedition loop.

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 14.8%, Exploration 5.4%, Sandbox 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong match for the 'car as survival tool' fantasy, combining scavenging, upgrades, and brutal travel through a deadly post-apocalyptic world.

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 19.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Sci-fi 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival crafting, scavenging runs, and darkly comic sci-fi disaster setting mirror Pacific Drive’s improvisational survival appeal.

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 25.8%, Story Rich 18.6%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Exploration 11.3%, Sci-fi 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the meditative but stressful rhythm of planning routes, protecting cargo, using vehicles strategically, and traversing a hauntingly strange landscape.

You. Your car. And world under the sand.

Why similar: Driving 33.8%, Survival 15%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Exploration 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another strong road-survival fit built around driving across desolate terrain while managing your car and the hazards of the trip.

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 31.4%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Survival 13.3%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Exploration 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a concentrated version of Pacific Drive’s vehicle maintenance and atmospheric journey through a hostile world, with your machine always demanding attention.

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 61.6%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Exploration 13.4%, Adventure 6.4%, Simulation 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a looser match, but its atmospheric road-trip structure and resource-management focus still align with Pacific Drive’s travel-driven survival appeal.

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 26.5%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Story Rich 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its motorcycle-centered survival exploration creates a similar bond with your vehicle, with fuel, repairs, and dangerous scavenging all tied into travel.

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 47.3%, Atmospheric 19.1%, Action-Adventure 18.4%, Adventure 8.7%, Action 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Pacific Drive, it turns travel itself into survival gameplay by making you operate, maintain, and rely on a single vessel in an uncanny environment.

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 47.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Exploration 10.8%, First-Person 8.2%, Simulation 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the deliberate, high-stakes driving and route-planning side of Pacific Drive, though it trades supernatural horror for realistic terrain challenge.

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 36.6%, Crafting 20.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its mobile-base survival design and constant cycle of collecting materials, crafting upgrades, and surviving environmental danger parallel Pacific Drive’s core progression loop.

Embark on scientific expeditions with this new off-road adventure game. Lead research missions as you drive a variety of all-terrain vehicles, using high-tech tools and managing your camp and crew to ensure your success in the wild.

Why similar: Driving 32.3%, Transportation 31.6% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.5%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on outfitting vehicles for dangerous field missions and solving environmental obstacles fits the expedition-planning side of Pacific Drive well.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Exploration 14.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: While broader and less horror-focused, it scratches a similar itch for gathering resources, upgrading vehicles, and surviving repeated expeditions into strange sci-fi spaces.

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 27.1%, Survival 16.5%, Survival Horror 11%, Story Rich 10.5%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers story-rich survival travel through irradiated, hostile regions with strong atmosphere and scavenging, even if the vehicle side is less central.

MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!

Why similar: Driving 68.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Sandbox 6.9%, Exploration 4.8%, First-Person 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a good pick if your favorite part was wrestling an unreliable vehicle through punishing terrain with careful resource and route management.

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%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Sandbox 15%, Building 13.4%, Exploration 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the theme of surviving by road through a dangerous world, balancing supplies, upgrades, and risky travel between scavenging opportunities.

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 33.5%, Exploration 23.8%, Story Rich 21.4%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Adventure 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its expedition-based structure, resource pressure, vehicle upkeep, and surreal horror atmosphere echo Pacific Drive in a very different but compelling form.

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 34.9%, Survival 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Exploration 8.2%, First-Person 7.4%

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 15.1%, Transportation 15.1% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%

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 35.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival Horror 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Vehicles become precious lifelines in its unforgiving scavenging-focused survival sandbox, giving it some of the same desperate road-escape energy.

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 co-op

Why similar: Driving 31.9%, Survival 15.5%, Survival Horror 15%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 33.9%, Survival 30.3%, Story Rich 8.5%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Horror 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its train-as-lifeline structure and moody post-apocalyptic survival journey recreate the same tension of keeping a machine running while moving through a hostile world.

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: Crafting 15.5%, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Sandbox 9.8%

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 32.4%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Exploration 10.8%, Horror 9.4%

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 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7.6%

Arm your vehicle with deadly weapons and roam endless wastelands in this fast-paced single-player car combat game. Collect upgrades for your car to melt enemies and giant bosses in this bizarre world. Retro vibe. Retro cars. Retro gameplay!

Why similar: Driving 41.3%, Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, Survival 17.5%, Exploration 9.6%, Adventure 3.8%

Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Base Building 22.1%, Crafting 14%, Sci-fi 12%, Exploration 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 18.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Exploration 9.8%

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 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%

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 35.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Exploration 8.6%, First-Person 7.7%, Horror 7.4%

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

Why similar: Survival 15%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Driving 8.7%

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 17.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Building 9.8%

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 27.8%, Survival 16.9%, First-Person 10.2%, Action-Adventure 7.6%, Adventure 6.7%

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 34.9%, Sandbox 11%, Horror 10.2%, Exploration 8.6%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Crafting 17.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%

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 35.5%, Transportation 25.3% ★, Building 13.2%, Base Building 7.9%, Exploration 6.4%

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

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 30.8%, Transportation 30.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Survival 10.7%, Exploration 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 12.9%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Exploration 10%

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 30.2%, Exploration 17%, Atmospheric 13%, Story Rich 11.2%, Action-Adventure 10.7%

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%, Exploration 11.8%, Story Rich 10.7%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Simulation 6.2%

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 26.9%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Sandbox 9.1%

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: Simulation 24.1%, Exploration 24.1%, Horror 19.5%, First-Person 17.4%, 3D 9.2%

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 14.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 10.4%

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 39.5%, Transportation 22.6% ★, Survival 15%, First-Person 8.2%, Simulation 6.7%

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 16.5%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Sci-fi 8.5%

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%

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 14.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Building 7.4%

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 27.2%, Transportation 23.6% ★, Survival 13%, Sandbox 8.2%, First-Person 5.9%