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Pacific Drive Shadow-Drops on Xbox Series With 'Whispers in the Woods' and Day-One Game Pass

The surprise rollout broadens the audience by pairing the console debut with a major narrative expansion.

Overview

  • Ironwood Studios and Kepler Interactive released Pacific Drive today on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC.
  • The base game is included from day one with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium and PC Game Pass, per the developer’s Xbox Wire post.
  • Whispers in the Woods launches alongside the Xbox version, offering an 8–12 hour, fully voiced story centered on an anomaly-obsessed cult and playable within new or existing saves.
  • The expansion introduces Artifacts that apply risky, shifting effects, adds new anomalies and junction types, and opens a new forest region roughly one-third the size of the base world.
  • Additional features include new route modifiers, garage stations and cosmetics, plus a new original score by composer Wilbert Roget II; the game first launched on PS5 and PC on February 22, 2024.