The survival horror indie hit Pacific Drive is getting turned into a TV show, according to a report by Variety. Director James Wan, who is best known for Saw and Aquaman, has scooped up the rights to the game, though that's about all we know. There's no casting news yet, or even information as to which streamer or network it will premiere on. It's time to play the waiting game. Pacific Drive is certainly a unique take on the survival horror genre.

I had to give up on Pacific Drive, the weird-fiction-inspired driving survival game I recommended the other week. Not because it's bad – it's great – but because it needed 20-plus hours from me that I just do not have right now. It's a game about probing further and further into a long-abandoned exclusion zone in a beat-up old car, and the anomalies you encounter. These range from pillars suddenly thrusting themselves from the earth to alarming hurricanes that shove you around the road, and all are excitingly inventive and creepy. But it was the tourists that finished me off.

The rain was pouring as game director Alex Dracott drove through the wilderness of the Pacific north-west. There wasn't anyone in the car with him, but nonetheless, Dracott didn't feel alone in his trusty station wagon – a dependable, durable vehicle he'd been driving ever since he was a teenager. As the game maker was bludgeoned by the elements, he describes feeling a "camaraderie with the car", sheltered by its windshield and the metal of its body. This experience inspired Pacific Drive, the game Dracott has been making for the past three years with his team at Ironwood Studios in Seattle, capital of the famously verdant region. He describes it as a "run-based driving survival game," played in first-person.