EMERGENCY
Released Aug 2023
Save lives – be a hero! Join forces against the chaos in the newest title of the award-winning EMERGENCY series. Take up your shift as incident commander and coordinate with other players to fight fires, arrest gangsters and rescue injured civilians. Your city needs you!
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Released live service, but development status unclear
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Live Service
Development Uncertain
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Released live service, but development status unclear
Low confidence
Live Service
Development Uncertain
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
EMERGENCY launched as a free-to-play live service co-op strategy game on August 15, 2023. At launch, the developer explicitly committed to ongoing development and new content updates. In the months that followed, the game received a steady stream of updates: feature patches in September, October, and November 2023; a major content release in December 2023 (holiday missions, Steam achievements, firefighting overhaul); another major update in February 2024 (new missions, animated skins, customization); and the largest update yet on March 19, 2024, adding the Industrial Port map with 80 new missions, a seasonal ranking system, and Mac support. A bug fix patch followed on April 19, 2024.
The game is clearly designed as a live service — it features seasonal rankings, monetized cosmetic bundles, rotating content, and a developer-maintained roadmap. However, since April 19, 2024, there have been no further Steam posts of any kind. The developer maintained a consistent posting cadence of roughly every 4–8 weeks from launch through April 2024, making the silence since then — now stretching past June 2026 — a significant departure from their established pattern. The roadmap published in December 2023 outlined future plans, but no updates to that roadmap or any new content announcements have appeared on Steam since the April 2024 bug fix. It is unclear whether development is continuing, paused, or has quietly ended.
Evidence
Bug fix patch released — the last developer communication on Steam as of June 27, 2026. No posts of any kind have followed in over 26 months.
Major content update adds the Industrial Port map with 80 new missions, 20+ upgrade cards, a seasonal ranking system, and Mac support.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Sixteen Tons Entertainment
Achievements
193
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op
About this game
EMERGENCY – Save lives, be a hero!
Ready to start your shift and save the world with your fellow commanders?
Take charge of firefighters, medics, police forces and technical engineers to fight chaos and save the city from disaster. Coordinate rescue mission professionally and efficiently, in a team working with other players or alone in single-player mode. Time is running out and every decision counts when innocent lives are at stake.
EMERGENCY is a co-op real-time strategy game all about saving lives. In a fight against time and chaos, players join forces to coordinate rescue missions. As incident commander you take control of the rescue team and face fires, injured civilians, criminals, high-voltage accidents and other adrenaline inducing challenges.
Play together or by yourself
Dive into the world of EMERGENCY and play with friends or players from all over the world. Team up with up to four other commanders to save your city. Do you have what it takes to seamlessly work together and master the chaos?
Take on shifts as incident commander
Take on a multitude of shifts requiring lots of different responses. Lightning storms, freezing cold, blazing heat—weather is always a factor. Start out as a trainee and build your experience until you are ready for even the most challenging of rescue missions.
Coordinate your departments
You will have to work closely with your fellow incident commanders to coordinate your units. Mobilize your SWAT trucks, water tenders, ambulances, and more to stay on top of the chaos. The city is counting on you!
Upgrade your units and unlock new abilities
Use the cards you win at the end of successful shifts to improve your units and unlock new abilities. Level your cards to become an expert in your favorite departments, or become the trusted all-rounder, able to carry any round.
Play for free
EMERGENCY is a free-to-play game with in-app purchases.
Ready to start your shift and save the world with your fellow commanders?
Take charge of firefighters, medics, police forces and technical engineers to fight chaos and save the city from disaster. Coordinate rescue mission professionally and efficiently, in a team working with other players or alone in single-player mode. Time is running out and every decision counts when innocent lives are at stake.
EMERGENCY is a co-op real-time strategy game all about saving lives. In a fight against time and chaos, players join forces to coordinate rescue missions. As incident commander you take control of the rescue team and face fires, injured civilians, criminals, high-voltage accidents and other adrenaline inducing challenges.
KEY FEATURES
Play together or by yourself
Dive into the world of EMERGENCY and play with friends or players from all over the world. Team up with up to four other commanders to save your city. Do you have what it takes to seamlessly work together and master the chaos?
Take on shifts as incident commander
Take on a multitude of shifts requiring lots of different responses. Lightning storms, freezing cold, blazing heat—weather is always a factor. Start out as a trainee and build your experience until you are ready for even the most challenging of rescue missions.
Coordinate your departments
You will have to work closely with your fellow incident commanders to coordinate your units. Mobilize your SWAT trucks, water tenders, ambulances, and more to stay on top of the chaos. The city is counting on you!
Upgrade your units and unlock new abilities
Use the cards you win at the end of successful shifts to improve your units and unlock new abilities. Level your cards to become an expert in your favorite departments, or become the trusted all-rounder, able to carry any round.
Play for free
EMERGENCY is a free-to-play game with in-app purchases.
FEATURE LIST
- Online co-op with up to four people: play with a group of friends or join via matchmaking
- Online single player
- Explore three maps, each with unique emergencies and special themed shifts
- Four different departments to coordinate: fire department, police department, medical department, and technical department
- Card system: collect cards that improve your units, and unlock new abilities by winning shifts
- Free to play: enjoy all gameplay completely free
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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