Rescue HQ - The Tycoon
Released May 2019
Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?
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Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Rescue HQ - The Tycoon launched on May 28, 2019 and received active post-launch support throughout 2019, including several feature updates adding new maps, scenarios, and gameplay systems. The sole paid DLC — the Coastguard expansion — was released on March 5, 2020, introducing a new London map, a new department, boats, and additional missions. That DLC is the only one listed on the store, and it is fully released with no unreleased items in the listing.
After March 2020, there are no further updates, patches, or developer communications related to Rescue HQ itself. The studio has since shifted its focus to a successor title: Global Rescue, which launched in Early Access on April 27, 2026. The news posts from October 2025 through April 2026 are all announcements and promotions for Global Rescue — a separate, spiritually similar game — with no mention of new content for Rescue HQ.
With all released DLC shipped, a clear endpoint to post-launch support in early 2020, and the developer's attention now publicly directed toward a new title, Rescue HQ appears to be a complete, finished product. The content completion date is tied to the Coastguard DLC release on March 5, 2020.
Evidence
Coastguard DLC released — the only paid DLC for the game, adding a London map, new department, boats, and additional missions.
Developer announced and released the Coastguard DLC, the last major content release for Rescue HQ.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Aerosoft GmbH
Achievements
21
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for the three emergency departments fire brigade, police and ambulance. With limited budget you will be facing tough decisions and extensive emergencies that will need your immediate attention. During all of that you will further develop your HQ, hire new crew members and provide them with all the vehicles and equipment they need. Can you keep cool in heated up situations and will you do whatever it takes to keep your city safe?

You are the police – Send appropriate forces with specific vehicles (from patrol car to SWAT unit) to dangerous emergency missions to keep your city safe. Provide them with the right gear from snipers to tracker dogs, bomb defusal kits and much more…
Bring back prisoners and evidence from the crime scenes, interrogate them and process the files to earn money. You will need the funds to set up for big events like the trial of a mafia boss or preparations for the football championship ending up in major riots in your city.

You are the fire brigade – Get ready for the rush of incoming emergencies and make sure your team has the right vehicles and resources to handle them. Train your firefighters to develop unique skills allowing them to become experts for specific mission types. Assign them to different shifts based on their skills and supply them with special gear from air tanks to hazmat suits for chemical emergencies.

You are the ambulance – Look after your patients in the medical station of your HQ and expand it with the latest technologies from radiology stations to 3D printers. It’s your responsibility to keep all your patients safe and provide your medic team with the needed items from crash cart to contamination suits and medical kits.

As the manager of your HQ it’s your job to always keep track of everything. In times of resource and time scarcity, good planning and well-considered compromises are demanded.
Show that you got what it takes to successfully complete multidisciplinary emergencies involving all three departments while keeping your crew happy and healthy. Make use of more than 20 vehicles including helicopters, tons of different equipment, skills and items to set up your rescue masterpiece.
Can you keep cool and stay on top of the situation, despite three departments, numerous missions, and scarce resources demanding your attention? Prove your skills, your city counts on you!

- Three emergency departments under one roof allowing for different challenges and strategies
- Build and expand your headquarter
- Two different settings, based on San Francisco and Berlin, with corresponding vehicles
- Challenging resource management
- Unforeseen and diverse missions
- Huge “scurrying factor” due to personnel that follow their routines
- Extensive modding capabilities of all assets, maps, and missions
- Day/night cycle with shifts management and changing emergency types
- Level up your rookies to veteran status
- Police department – “paperwork” that has to be processed and balanced with sending police officers to emergencies
- Medical division – “patients” feature. Stock up on medical equipment to treat patients in critical condition, thus getting paid by their insurance
- Firefighting department – Large operations with a lot of equipment, vehicles and people involved
- Purchase property to expand your headquarters and fill it with department specific rooms as well as common rooms that improve the mood and health of you employees
- Get paid by the city mayor based on your performance
- Earn rewards from successfully completed emergencies – either directly in form of money and reputation, delayed as with paperwork, patients and prisoners, or more complex like new team members, work stations, new unlocks, etc.
- Long-term scenario that presents challenges to you providing waves of emergencies at specific times. Check the timeline and make sure you are ready for them!
- Objectives and achievements that guide you through the game experience and will keep the game challenging at all times

Rescue HQ can be extensively modded. You can create your own assets, maps, and missions using the F# language and Unity engine. Share your creations with the community via the Steam Workshop or download the mods from others.

Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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