Pacific Drive’s road-trip survival breakout
Game · 2024
Pacific Drive reached 18,428 concurrent Steam players in February 2024.
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- Steam Charts all-time peak concurrent players
- 18.4K
- As of Oct 28, 2026 · Steam Charts
- Observed peak date
- By end of Feb 2024
- Feb 22 ’24 to By end of Feb 2024
- Platforms
- 3
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Seeded
- Gaming
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How it spread
Trace the originAfter a Steam Next Fest demo, Pacific Drive launched on PC and PlayStation 5. Steam Charts recorded a peak of 18,428 concurrent players, and the studio reported over 600,000 copies sold by July.
Observed peak within the documented measurement window; not an all-time maximum. Some dates are known only to the week, month or year.
Timeline (11)
July 2023
The Guardian precursor · Jul 27 ’23
The Guardian traced the game’s origins to a designer’s bond with a station wagon.[1]
February 2024
Smash Jump precursor · Feb 11 ’24
Smash Jump described its impressions of the Steam Next Fest demo.[2]
GamesRadar+ precursor · Feb 13 ’24
GamesRadar+ reported Pacific Drive among the most-played Next Fest demos.[3]
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- Copies sold worldwide, studio announcement“sales of Pacific Drive have exceeded 600,000 units globally”600K[8]
Press (1 outlet)
- Jul 27, 2023210 days before
The Guardian · Pacific Drive, the video game road trip inspired by the weird fiction of Jeff VanderMeer
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