- Pacific Drive: Best of the Summer 2026 AMA - 14 September 2026
Good afternoon drivers, breachers, and anomaly-hunting hopefuls!Ironwood has had a lot of fun doing community events like streams, devlogs, and Reddit AMAs. We also know that it’s hard to catch them live with all the real life everyone has going on - so we’ve curated a few of our favorite questions from the Summer 2026 AMA here for your enjoyment (and we might have snuck in something special towards the end.) Stormraughtz asked: I had an awesome time in the OEZ with our dearly beloved \ - I have to ask though, do you all still forget to set the car into park? And which sick individual came up with that idea? "We forgot often enough ourselves that we put in an upgrade that auto-parks the car! Also, the inverse - where you get in the car and slam the gas, despite still being in park - happened enough that we got ample testing across the team for the achievement to forget putting the car i…
- Pacific Drive and Abiotic Factor, now Bundled! - 31 August 2026
The Pacific Drive x Abiotic Factor bundle is available now, and you can take home both great, weird, sci-fi adventures for less than the cost of a 'my first chemistry kit' - seriously, it's a great deal. We're very excited to be working with Deep Field to bring you all this discounted bundle, and on top of that, it's available now during the Steam PVE Survival Crafting festival! Abiotic Factor is a favorite of with the Ironwood Studios team, and we've often played as a team over the last year - and they recently celebrated their 1.0 anniversary with a huge update. If you haven't had a chance to check it out yet, the game is a wild adventure for 1-6 players through the deepest parts of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds (and you!) must survive against the universe’s…
- Ironwood is hosting a Pacific Drive AMA! - 15 June 2026
Join us this week on R/Gaming for a chance to ask all your burning questions about Pacific Drive! Our Summer 2026 AMA will be held on the R/Gaming subreddit this Thursday, June 18th 2026. We love taking the time to answer your questions and we're looking forward to talking about the game, it's expansion, and anything you'd like to know about what it takes to make a driving-survival game liked PD! Edit: Our AMA is live and happening now! Come hang out with us over on Reddit.
- Grab a copy of Pacific Drive with our free Steam key giveaway - 11 June 2026
You know, if you're going to be lost in a supernatural wilderness, being hunted from all angles by God knows what, you might as well travel in style. And if you can't do that, then a Radius Motors 1983 Station Wagon will just have to do. We've teamed up with Kepler Interactive to give you a chance at winning a copy of its supernatural survival game, Pacific Drive, so you too can fall in love with the boxy automobile the same way we did. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Grab a copy of Pacific Drive with our free Steam key giveaway
- Pacific Drive: Whispers in the Woods OST Now Available on Streaming Services - 10 April 2026
Take the tunes with you! All your favorite tracks from the Whispers in the Woods OST are available to stream now in your favorite apps. Award-winning composer Wilbert Roget, II delivers a foreboding score for Pacific Drive’s cultish expansion, Whispers in the Woods. Blending distorted pads, choral textures, and twisted percussion to reflect the cult’s unsettling presence. "When scoring games, I like to take influence from the art direction and colour scheme – it gives me a useful impression of the overall vibe of the world and setting. While the base game had a wide variety of green and brown forest colours, Whispers in the Woods featured lots of violent reds, reflecting the cult itself." - Wilbert Roget, IIIf you'd like to take at what's behind the music, our composer sat down with the folks from Laced to do a short interview about the process behind creating music for Pacific Drive. I…
- Pacific Drive is an excellent driving sim with horror vibes, and you can get the full experience cheaper than ever - 25 March 2026
When a game delivers unique vibes, there's nothing better. Pacific Drive somehow effortlessly manages to create a Stalker or Chernobylite-style atmosphere, with supernatural happenings and survival mechanics, into a driving simulator. It sounds bizarre, and in some ways, it really is, but the blend is so natural that it's almost confusing how no developer has done this before. After years of major updates and a first expansion that amps up the horror tension, Pacific Drive is better than ever, and best of all, cheaper than ever. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Borderlands 4 just got its first story DLC, and you can get the full experience at its lowest price yet This one small mod makes Crimson Desert a must-buy game Death Stranding 2 was my Game of the Year in 2025, and now on PC, it's my GOTY for 2026
- 2 Years of Road Trips Into the Olympic Exclusion Zone! - 23 February 2026
A short message from Ironwood Studios, to our spectacular players: Two years is an incredible amount of time to have spent driving through the forest, dodging anomalies, and repairing an old wood-paneled station wagon. But we’ve done it! Four major content updates focused on new ways to play the game, a horror-themed expansion, and so many bug fixes — all of it has led us here. As we enter our third year in the Zone, we want to appreciate and take note of what we accomplished together. Since its release, Pacific Drive has sold 1.5 million copies, and we’ve reached 3 million players worldwide. We’ve joined PlayStation Plus and (as a carefully planned surprise) Xbox Gamespass, growing the population of breachers in the Zone by the thousands. Whispers in the Woods reignited our fear of the unknown and drew the attention of anomaly obsessed fanatics and soon, the Ritual Edition of Pacific D…
- Pacific Drive - Version 1.15.0 Patch Notes 2/23/2026 - 23 February 2026
AnnouncementsWe’re excited to be celebrating the second anniversary of Pacific Drive! We’re grateful to all of you, our players, for the support and enthusiasm you’ve shown the game over the last two years through the content updates, the expansion of Whispers in the Woods, and everything that comes from having such an awesome community.We hope you enjoy the additions to the radio - there’s nothing quite like having some new tunes to drive to out in the OEZ! Pacific Drive version 1.15.0 is available now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S | X.Version 1.15.0 - HighlightsNew Radio Music - Volume 3 of the Radio Sountrack, with 15 new songsVisual Issues with ARC Device have been FixedLogbook fix(es)Bugs and UX FixesFixed visual issues with the ARC Device resulting from modified graphics settings or performance modes on PlayStation and XboxFixed an issue where the embark requirements for…
- Pacific Drive - Version 1.14.0 Patch Notes 12/16/2025 - 16 December 2025
Announcements Hello Drivers! Today’s patch has performance updates, new radio content and a number of bug fixes (including a fix for some players in a broken state). Pacific Drive version 1.14.0 is available now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S | X. Read below to see what’s changed! First, a major fix is going out today for any players with corrupted saves in Whispers in the Woods expansion content that stopped them from making progress in the DLC. With this update, affected players will see a pop-up message when loading back into Pacific Drive.If you see this message, your save file will have automatically applied changes that should fix any outstanding issues and return you to an unblocked state.Story progression will be rolled back to just before leaving on the “Initiation” quest. Your progress on the Whispering Chart will be set back to that point as well, with only the very…
- Nominate Pacific Drive for The Steam Awards! - 27 November 2025
Breachers! It's been a huge year for everyone working on Pacific Drive. We took you on a never ending series of road trips with the Endless Expeditions free update in April, released a dozen patches that improved the quality of the game, and of course, introduced you all to Whispers in the Woods, our biggest addition to the game to date.Throughout this entire journey, we've listened to your feedback, watched streams, reaction videos, and loved the every day conversations from the community from our Discord. Some of you went above and beyond to solve a particularly tricky mystery right before the release of WITW! 👁️ The Steam Awards are currently upon us, and if you've enjoyed our company as much as we have yours, we would be honored if you're able to consider us for the "Labor of Love" award by clicking the checkbox above - as a small studio working on it's first game, it would mean th…
- Pacific Drive - Version 1.13.1 Hotfix Patch Notes 11/20/2025 - 20 November 2025
We saved your saves! Pacific Drive Hotfix Version 1.13.1 is available to download now on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S | X. Version 1.13.1 - HighlightsToday’s hotfix is laser focused on a few issues reported by the community this week! We’ve tackled the save loading issue, an inventory system bug, and some scary crashes caused by rogue garage elements.Before we get into the patch notes themselves, we do want to address a concern around file size that you’ve all expressed to us over the last few weeks, namely how large the update file sizes appear to be on PC and Console whenever a new patch or update to the game happens.To speak on it at a high level, sometimes patching the game involves a re-organization of the files and information that make up the entire game - it’s not possible to just pick and choose which ones are updated, and for safety, it’s easiest to deliver that re-orga…
- Pacific Drive - Version 1.13.0 Patch Notes 11/17/2025 - 18 November 2025
Well would you look at that - she's running smooth again. Pacific Drive Version 1.13.0 is available now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S | X.Version 1.13.0 - HighlightsNailing down some particularly pesky bugs:General improvements made to Whispers in the Woods sequences, fixed settings for radiation, audio weirdness, visual hitches and more!Some general performance fixes:The game’s file structure and build process on launch have been adjusted to increase performance, and minimize load timesThis change affects the way that 4.27 UE packages content. Essentially, we’re changing the way we build the game and the way that the data is stored.This allows the build to be more performant during gameplay by reducing the time spent on file read processes.Concentrated efforts to solve a few rough hitches on Consoles Bugs and UX Fixes Base GameAdjusted build process to make file read quickerF…
- The Whispers in the Woods OST is available Now! - 12 November 2025
The OST for our latest expansion, Whispers in the Woods, is available now! Cruise through your local haunted forest to the tunes of 'The Harmonic Fellowship' or experience some form of tranquility with 'Visions' playing softly (or at max volume) in the background. Our appreciation goes out to everyone in the community who was waiting for this release - thanks for falling in love with the latest sounds from the Zone!
- The scariest horror game I've played this year is actually DLC for 2024's best driving sim - 12 November 2025
It takes a lot for even the best horror games to really spook me. Put it down to a very early introduction to Resident Evil as a precocious preschooler, or my annual Halloween pilgrimage through Silent Hill 2. Either way, I've become so desensitized to the tricks of the horror game trade that even the most elaborate jumpscare has become rote. Instead, it's often games that aren't specifically horror that are the most likely to get me spooked, especially ones driven by emergent gameplay. That's where Pacific Drive comes in. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Pacific Drive just shadow dropped a haunting new DLC, turning the underrated survival game into nightmare fuel Underrated survival game Pacific Drive unveils its "biggest and best" update yet One of PC's greatest survival games, Pacific Drive is now cheaper than ever
- Pacific Drive - Version 1.12.0 Patch Notes 11/11/2025 - 11 November 2025
You're finally awake! You were trying to breach the outer wall right? Same as us. Version 1.12.0 of Pacific Drive is available now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S | X. Version 1.12.0 - HighlightsOur previous shader cache optimizations have been fully restored and improved for base game and Whispers in the Woods.Harvestmen have undergone a number of fixes including being more reliable when put near their nests, breaking their necks less, and accurately letting you know how full they are.Several crashes and softlocks have been fixed thanks to the community’s assistance - thanks, guys! Bugs and UX Fixes Base GamePacific Drive and Whispers in the Woods shader caches have been updated to provide a smoother gameplay experienceController haptics (vibration, etc) no longer trigger when disabled from in-game settingsFixed spawning issues across all maps that caused hazards to spawn in im…
- Pacific Drive - Version 1.11.2 Hotfix Patch Notes 11/06/2025 - 6 November 2025
Surprise! It’s a bonus Hotfix. We discovered an issue with the route planner that needed solving as soon as possible to get you all back out into the Zone and on the road.Version 1.11.2 - Negative Scanner charges and Getting Trapped in the GarageWe’ve just pushed a solution to help you keep from getting stuck in the garage due to negative scanner charges, and other route planning related issues. Today’s fix is live for all platforms - PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.Some players have gotten stuck with negative scanning charges when interacting with the route planner, and that's made it impossible to leave the garage entirely - because selecting a route is key to starting the journey from the garage.This was happening due to a difference in the number of charges between Whispers in the Woods maps, and the base game. If players attempted to scan the Whispers in the Woods nodes but did not leave…
- Pacific Drive - Version 1.11.1 Hotfix Patch Notes 10/29/2025 - 29 October 2025
Thanks to all our Breachers we were able to find a lot of fixes, and fast! Version 1.11.1 of Pacific Drive is now available on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. Version 1.11.1 - HighlightsWe've implemented a lot of fixes for softlocks and progression blocking issues have been solvedXbox users should now be able to access their DLC entitlements offlineBug and UX FixesFixed a rare crash that would occur when attempting to save a game that had a large or older save fileFixed a softlock in early Whispers in the Woods mission when breaking down attuned car parts and not having enough materials to craft more.If your save is currently in this state, new attuned parts should appear from the pneumatube next to the route planner.Fixed a softlock in base game tutorial where tires would sometimes obtain extra unintended status effects.Fixed a softlock in base game tutorial that would prevent player from u…
- Pacific Drive just shadow dropped a haunting new DLC, turning the underrated survival game into nightmare fuel - 23 October 2025
Let me be clear, the base game experience of Pacific Drive can get really intense at times. While tinkering away on an old station wagon and decorating your garage with trinkets you scavenge from the surrounding forest sounds super relaxing, most of the time it's making you sweat. Able to lure you into exploring a few minutes more than you should, and quick to punish your complacency, it's earned a place on our best survival games list. While its freaky, mysterious anomalies can get your heart racing, its brand new DLC, Whispers in the Woods, takes things to new levels. With a darker tone, cults, and a new survival mechanic, Pacific Drive's first expansion looks incredible. And guess what? It just shadow dropped. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Underrated survival game Pacific Drive unveils its "biggest and best" update yet One of PC's greatest survival games, Pacific Drive…
- Pacific Drive - Version 1.11.0 Patch Notes 10/23/2025 - 23 October 2025
Welcome to Whispers in the Woods - Pacific Drive’s largest expansion yet, available now on Steam, Epic Games Store, Windows Store, PlayStation, and now Xbox. Click here to check out our update post featuring the launch trailer! Version 1.11.0 - HighlightsWhispers in the Woods is now available!A brand new storyline for Pacific Drive that adds new gameplay mechanics, a new map to explore, and a fully voiced narrative that exposes you to an anomaly-obsessed group of Zone fanatics.Significant Performance Improvements to Pacific DriveNew Languages, new minor features, and new cosmeticsAdditional bug fixes and UX improvementsFeatures and Content added to Base GameAdded new languagesUkrainianItalianUpdated Spawning Rules and Map improvementsTraffic Jam ObstructionDynamic Street Light Spawning for Paved and Dirt RoadsNew color variations to find for decal kits-Five new colors for Arda, Flames,…
- Pacific Drive: Whispers in the Woods is Available Now! - 23 October 2025
Well isn’t that surprising! Pacific Drive’s largest addition ever is now available on Steam, Epic Games Store, Windows Store, PlayStation 5 and newly available on the Xbox Series S | X. If you’d like to dive straight into our huge list of fixes, features, tweaks, and latest details, the patch notes are available right here. Whispers in the WoodsReturn to the Zone and witness the rise of a group of Anomaly-obsessed fanatics in this terrifying new expansion to Pacific Drive. Whispers in the Woods is a brand new story for you and your trusty station wagon. Available at any point after the first few hours of the game, this expansion takes you deep within a new and mysterious part of the Olympic Exclusion Zone’s forests. Marked with strange symbols and effigies, these woods are filled with new dangers and mysteries to uncover. Find and experience the power of Artifacts, each adding bizarre a…
