Good day! I’m Blake from the Ironwood Studios workforce and we’re proud to introduce Whispers within the Woods, a significant narrative and gameplay enlargement to Pacific Drive.
When Pacific Drive first launched in February 2024, gamers joined their trusty station wagon to courageous the haunting, anomaly-filled Olympic Exclusion Zone. The sport’s distinctive mix of driving, tense exploration, and scrappy automobile upkeep shortly resonated with followers of automobile and survival video games alike. Now, we’re excited to convey gamers again to the motive force’s seat and again to the Zone in Whispers within the Woods, coming later this 12 months for Ps 5.
Return to the Zone
Whispers within the Woods takes you on a brand-new journey again into the Olympic Exclusion Zone. Accessible after your first few hours within the sport, the enlargement will be pursued alongside your predominant marketing campaign and explores the rise of a terrifying group of anomaly obsessed fanatics hidden deep inside the depths of the forests.
With their look, the enlargement brings a change to the woods of The Zone in contrast to something you’ve seen earlier than. Not solely do new anomalies roam the forests, however huge effigies adorned with cryptic symbols fill the panorama as the sport’s environment takes on a darker extra horror targeted tone.
“From the very starting, we knew we needed to take the mysteries of the Olympic Exclusion Zone in a brand new course for this Enlargement.” says Cassandra Dracott, Inventive Director at Ironwood Studios. “We had heard a lot suggestions and so many tales concerning the worry folks had skilled in Pacific Drive and in With Whispers within the Woods, we knew we needed to lean laborious in that course.”
It’s not only a tonally totally different expertise both. We’ve added a wholly new totally voiced narrative within the enlargement and with it, we’re capable of proceed constructing on the world of the sport and the surreal nature of the Zone. We’ll depart you to theorize what occurs subsequent – however it wouldn’t be Pacific Drive if we weren’t additionally providing you with new experiences to have along with your 4 wheeled companion.
Uncover Artifacts
Whispers within the Woods brings extra of every thing you’d hope for in a Pacific Drive enlargement. New gadgets, automobile elements, cosmetics, junction sorts, and anomalies await. We’ve even added new behaviors to outdated anomalies to assist maintain you in your toes. The most important and most vital addition nevertheless, are the model new Artifacts.
“As you gather these mysterious objects, you’ll have to deal with their unpredictable automobile and world altering results, forcing you to always adapt and alter your technique on the fly.” provides Richard Weschler, Lead Designer on Whispers within the Woods.
Created by our mysterious group of fanatics, Artifacts are the enlargement’s gameplay centerpiece. Impressed by our quirk system, every Artifact is imbued with a situation and an impact stated situation creates. Maybe each time you leap, your automobile horn honks. Possibly when your automobile horn honks it additionally takes injury. Whereas some could grant you unusual benefits, others will add twists and turns to the way you play. Artifacts may even play off of one another to create chain reactions.
It’s as much as you to determine which Artifacts are the suitable ones in your time within the Zone. It doesn’t matter what sort of Artifact you and your wagon discover, two issues are true: accumulating a lot of them will probably be crucial to your time within the Whispering Woods, and should you maintain too many, way more harmful issues deep inside the forests will slowly awaken.
A significant enlargement for brand new and returning gamers
Since its launch, we’re proud to have multiple million gamers globally. Within the 18 months since launch, we’ve continued to assist the sport with a number of free updates like April 2025’s Countless Expeditions replace, which added countless journeys into the Zone, doubled the dimensions of the radio tracklist, and added the droop run function.
Whispers within the Woods nevertheless, is the studio’s most formidable replace but. With hours of latest gameplay and story content material, plus an explorable area near one-third the dimensions of the bottom sport, the enlargement represents a big step ahead for each new and returning followers and we’re extremely excited for everybody to expertise it.
“We see this launch as each for our longtime gamers and a welcome signal for newcomers,” Cassandra provides. “For those who’ve been driving by the Zone since day one, Whispers within the Woods goes so as to add a model new, extra terrifying tackle the Olympic Exclusion Zone. And should you’re simply beginning out, this enlargement marks the most effective model of the sport thus far with new programs and content material to search out and discover.”
Whether or not you’re returning to your acquainted station wagon or beginning recent in your first journey into the Zone, Pacific Drive: Whispers within the Woods provides a haunting new journey and we are able to’t wait so that you can expertise it later this 12 months on Ps 5.
