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Pacific Drive’s road-trip survival breakout

Game · 2024

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

Save 67% on Pacific Drive on Steam
Ironwood Studios; Kepler Interactive
Pacific Drive: First impressions
Smash Jump
A station wagon
PC Gamer
Pacific Drive sales top one million
Gematsu
Pacific Drive screenshots
Windows Central

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Numbers

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

Mechanics

  • Platform jumpPrimary
  • Maker origin

How it spread

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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.

Observed peak within the documented measurement window; not an all-time maximum. Some dates are known only to the week, month or year.

Wikipedia views · Google searchesJul ’23SepDecMar ’24JunSepDecApr ’25JulOctFeb ’26Observed peakIronwood StudiosStarts · Feb 22 ’24The GuardianJul 27 ’23Smash JumpFeb 11 ’24Techno GamerzMar 1 ’24PressOpen webYouTube
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Timeline (11)

  1. 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]

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  2. February 2024

    Smash Jump precursor · Feb 11 ’24

    Smash Jump described its impressions of the Steam Next Fest demo.[2]

    Pacific Drive: First impressions
  3. GamesRadar+ precursor · Feb 13 ’24

    GamesRadar+ reported Pacific Drive among the most-played Next Fest demos.[3]

  1. precursor · Feb 20 ’24

  2. seed · Feb 22 ’24

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  • Copies sold worldwide, studio announcement“sales of Pacific Drive have exceeded 600,000 units globally”
    600K[8]

Press (1 outlet)

  1. Jul 27, 2023210 days beforeThe Guardian · Pacific Drive, the video game road trip inspired by the weird fiction of Jeff VanderMeer

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Region
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Steam Charts all-time peak concurrent players
18.4K
As of Oct 28, 2026 · Steam Charts
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