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Pacific Drive

Developer
Ironwood Studios
Publisher
Kepler Interactive
Released
22 February 2024
Age rating
PEGI N/A
UK price
£24.99

Platforms: PC

Genres: simulator , adventure , indie

Pacific Drive is a first-person driving survival game with your car as your only companion. Navigate a surreal reimagining of the Pacific Northwest, and face supernatural dangers as you venture into the Olympic Exclusion Zone. Each excursion into the wilderness brings unique and strange challenges as you restore and upgrade your car from an abandoned garage that acts as your home base. Gather precious resources and investigate what’s been left behind in the Zone; unravel a long-forgotten mystery while learning exactly what it takes to survive in this unpredictable, hostile environment.

Best gaming PC for Pacific Drive in 2026

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Below are the four PC tiers we'd actually recommend for Pacific Drive today. These are our 2026 hardware picks, not the dated publisher minimums you'll find on Steam.

Mid-tier

£1,299

1440p · 60fps

CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 7700
GPU
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
RAM
32 GB
Storage
2TB NVMe SSD
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High-end

£1,799

1440p · 144fps

CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
RAM
32 GB
Storage
2TB NVMe SSD
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Official system requirements

These are the minimum and recommended specs as published by Kepler Interactive on Steam. They tend to be conservative — usually "what ran the game at 1080p when it shipped". For what you should actually buy in 2026, see the tier cards above.

Minimum Recommended
OS Windows 10 Windows 10
CPU Intel Core i5 8600 Intel Core i5-10600k
RAM 16 GB 16 GB
GPU Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB Nvidia RTX 2080/3070
Storage 18 GB 18 GB
DirectX 12 12

Verified 18 May 2026 against the Steam store page.

Can your PC run Pacific Drive?

If your CPU is roughly equivalent to Intel Core i5-10600k and your GPU is at or above Nvidia RTX 2080/3070, you'll hit recommended settings at 1080p/60. For 1440p or higher, see the tier picks above.

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