The Seattle-area unbiased manufacturing studio behind the hit online game Pacific Drive raised $4 million in seed funding.
The spherical, led by Lifelike Capital, is aimed towards financing Redmond, Wash.-based Ironwood Studios’ subsequent recreation.
Pacific Drive, launched in Feb. 2024 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC and printed by Kepler Interactive, is a “driving survival” recreation set in 1998, the place gamers construct, repair, and customise an previous station wagon with the intention to survive a science-warped zone within the rural Pacific Northwest.
Notably, PD options no conventional fight; as a substitute, you have to outwit and evade environmental risks whereas utilizing scrap steel and scavenged components to maintain your automotive in working order. (You possibly can learn GeekWire’s evaluation of Pacific Drive right here.)
“As a workforce we’re very grateful for the chance to maintain making video games and on the similar time so extremely excited for what the way forward for Ironwood holds,” Cassandra Dracott, Ironwood’s CEO and inventive director, mentioned in an press launch. “This funding spherical factors us in direction of one of the best model of that future and we’re thrilled to work alongside Lifelike Capital to make it a actuality.”
GeekWire reached out to Ironwood Studios for additional remark.
As per an official launch from Ironwood, PD has offered over 1.5 million models since its debut, along with being launched on each the Xbox Recreation Move and PlayStation Plus subscription providers. Ironwood launched a paid growth for PD, Whispers within the Woods, in October.
As well as, filmmaker James Wan (Noticed, The Conjuring) acquired the TV rights for Pacific Drive in 2024, although there was no additional public details about the challenge.
