If you're tired of waiting for Dark and Darker to maybe or maybe not come back to Steam, may I offer up Dungeonborne as a promising possible alternative? Just like Dark and Darker, Dungeonborne is a dark fantasy PvPvE game that combines multiplayer extraction-dungeon-crawling with some battle royale spice tossed in for good measure. In Pacific Drive, your car isn’t just an in-universe vehicle it’s a vehicle to pull you even deeper into a world that we can’t wait to anxiously cruise through later this month. I had a particularly stressful moment when I got caught in what I can only describe as a storm that blew in from hell and just about wrecked my car as I floored it through the escape portal with 11% health and no healing items left. Strange machines try to drag your car away, parts of the ground shift unexpectedly, and most things in general are in an unstable physical state. A few seem helpful, like dumpsters that spit out supplies, but most are antagonistic. It’s all the more immersive when you have to manually do things like turn the ignition and set the parking brake, which are good ideas to save on fuel and prevent your car from rolling away, respectively.Īll the while, unexplainable anomalies occur all around you. If you collide with the environment too hard, you risk breaking off panels or popping a tire and in a survival game like this, that can be a real disadvantage. But in Pacific Drive, you rely on your car not just to get around more easily, but to store belongings, craft supplies, view the map, and more. In every other game I’ve played that features driving, I don’t think I’ve ever once cared much about what happens to my vehicles. When you, a delivery driver, unwittingly find yourself on the inside of the Zone, the only allies you have are some voices guiding you over the radio and the real star of this game: your old, beat-up station wagon. ![]() What dangers (and perhaps even nightmares) are contained within are what Pacific Drive thrusts you directly into. Over half a century later, those experiments are now locked behind a 30 meter-high wall and those left inside were never heard from again. In the 1940s Pacific Northwest, the United States government experimented with strange new technology with the promise of bettering the world.
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