Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Released Sep 2020
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
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Steam $24.99
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Evaluation
Stormworks: Build and Rescue launched out of Early Access on September 17, 2020 and has maintained a robust, sustained cadence of major content updates ever since. Among the major updates visible in the news history: Asset Modding (November 20, 2024), Sailing (March 12, 2025), and Components/Physics/Gameplay Modding (July 7, 2025). These major releases arrive roughly every 4–7 months, supplemented by a steady stream of feature patches every few weeks.
The developer has been explicitly clear about their ongoing commitment to Stormworks. On February 23, 2026, in announcing their new game, they stated: "We are continuing to support and develop Stormworks. We have managed to develop the new game in parallel to Stormworks for the last 5 years, and that will continue. Expect more updates for Stormworks into the future, as normal." On June 15, 2026, they reiterated that the demo launch of their new game "doesn't affect Stormworks development and we have many more Stormworks updates in progress." As recently as August 13, 2026, the developer shipped a feature patch (v1.15.19) with new components and a large list of fixes.
All three paid DLC expansions (Search and Destroy, Industry, and Space) have been released with no new DLC currently announced or listed as unreleased. The game continues to grow through ongoing free updates. There is no indication that development is winding down.
Evidence
Developer explicitly states that their new game demo launch 'doesn't affect Stormworks development and we have many more Stormworks updates in progress.'
Developer announces new game but states: 'We are continuing to support and develop Stormworks... Expect more updates for Stormworks into the future, as normal.'
Content
3 of 3 released · no outstanding content
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Developer
Publisher
Geometa
Achievements
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Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP
About this game
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service.
Stormworks: Build and Rescue is a rich and dramatic physics playground. Take your custom-designed, block-based and programmable vehicles into fierce oceanic storms. Plan and execute thrilling rescues in a variety of challenging crisis scenarios. Export and share your meticulously designed vehicles and missions with other players via the Steam workshop.
Stormworks: Build and Rescue - create, rescue and release your inner hero!
Custom Creative Mode
Play the game how you want. Custom mode gives dozens of creative tools and options, suited for players who like to let their creativity run free and wild. In this mode, you are not limited by the survival and realism rules allowing you to create large and complex vehicles from the outset. Ideal for players who like to create scale replicas of real-world vehicles or wacky and ambitious creations of their own design.
Career Survival mode
Career mode focuses on progression and an overarching plot of starting your own search and rescue service from humble beginnings and building it up to cover the entire Stormworks world map. You will have to manage your finances, build space, and your own safety as you complete various missions to finance larger, more complex vehicles and new land bases.
Survival difficulty options
Survival difficulty options add an extra level of difficulty to your search and rescue operation with the most in depth and advanced game features including: advanced engine and fuel mechanics, LUA based micro controllers, vehicle damage, spreadable fire, and a variety of player damage types that can result in player deaths including:
- fall / impact damage
- fire damage
- prolonged exposure to the sea resulting in hypothermia
- mechanical damage (rotor blades)
- water pressure damage
- ...and sharks!
Construct vehicles by placing blocks in a rich editing suite, customize them with your own design and program their behaviour using the powerful in-game logic system. Choose from a wide array of components to assemble your own rescue helicopters, boats, submersibles and more…
Take to the sea, land or sky in your newly created vehicle. Navigate through over 15,000 square kilometres of ocean and islands in an amazingly dynamic world. Players will need to ensure that they create the right vehicle for the job as every mission is unique.
Design specific vehicles to respond to challenging missions across open oceans, island facilities, remote rigs and more. Rescue survivors from the water, fight fires, help repair oil rigs, operate nuclear power station machinery and more. Create and share your own missions using the rich missions editor. Unlock new locations and components in career mode or explore your imagination in creative mode.
Join your friends in cooperative multiplayer as you operate multi-crew vehicles, and execute complex missions involving careful planning and coordination.
The day-night cycle and dynamic weather system create diverse environments to put your creations to the test. From calm sunny mornings, to unforgiving stormy nights and even tsunamis - strong winds can turn the ocean from gentle ripples to fierce heaving waves, affecting your vehicles using physics-based hydrodynamics and displacement-buoyancy systems.
Last evaluated Aug 19, 2026
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