# Pacific Drive’s road-trip survival breakout

> Pacific Drive reached 18,428 concurrent Steam players in February 2024.

- Owner: Ironwood Studios; Kepler Interactive
- Kind: Game
- Sector: Gaming
- Seed date: 2024-02-22
- Observed peak date: By end of Feb 2024
- Date basis: Observed peak within the documented measurement window; not an all-time maximum. Some dates are known only to the week, month or year.
- Spread Score: 31 (Niche), v1.3
- Mechanics: Platform jump, Maker origin

## Summary

After 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.

## Timeline

- 2023-07-27 — The Guardian (Press) — The Guardian traced the game’s origins to a designer’s bond with a station wagon.
- 2024-02-11 — Smash Jump (Open web) — Smash Jump described its impressions of the Steam Next Fest demo.
- 2024-02-13 — GamesRadar+ (Press) — GamesRadar+ reported Pacific Drive among the most-played Next Fest demos.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/mcp#api).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/pacific-drive-survival-breakout-2024

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “Pacific Drive’s road-trip survival breakout.” Case HIS-01969. Spread Score v1.3: 31/100. Updated 2026-10-28. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-01969