Rescue Heli RH407

Rescue Heli RH407 is a retro-styled, arcade-inspired 2.5D helicopter game with simplified controls and physics rooted in real-world behavior. You pilot a rescue helicopter through a space mining base damaged by explosions, rescuing stranded cyber-miners and returning them to the heliport. Secondary reactor explosions are expected in 407 minutes, and the malfunctioning Supercomputer may be working against you.

Rescue missions

Pick up cyber-miners and deliver them safely to the heliport; your score increases only after you land successfully. Passengers are not strapped in, so reckless manoeuvres can send them flying, while hard landings can injure or kill them. Fuel is limited, and taking on passengers or extra fuel increases the helicopter’s mass and affects its movement. You can leave passengers behind and return for them later.

Rescued miners can be assigned to recover the Supercomputer’s resources. Each hex you control generates CPU, RAM and HDD, which you need to unlock later rescue missions and expand your reach. These resources also let you unlock teleportation to new mission areas.

The Supercomputer

The Supercomputer once managed the base, but it has malfunctioned. By hacking it, you can make navigation easier or possible by removing obstacles, and slow or disable malfunctioning machinery. Some areas require you to find the correct numbered fragment to activate a trigger.

Puzzles involve buttons that move parts of the environment and open restricted areas. You can drop passengers at designated spots and pick them up again later to open doors to otherwise inaccessible locations. This lets you reach more people, but costs time and fuel.

Flight and navigation

The base’s levels contain increasingly difficult obstacles. You navigate from side or top views while monitoring the flight deck’s gauges: the altimeter, level indicator, total mass and fuel level. The altimeter displays airspeed and vertical airspeed; the level indicator gives sea-level and above-ground-level altitude readings in top view. The fuel display shows remaining fuel, and the helicopter turns red with a HUD warning when fuel is low.

The radar marks heliports with white dots, people waiting for rescue with velvet dots, and fuel barrels with blue dots. A number shows how many cyber-miners are waiting nearby. The helicopter stays at the radar’s centre; dots above it indicate higher-altitude objects, while dots to the right indicate objects to its right.

Helicopters and modes

Spend stars earned in missions on upgrades in the hangar. You can find stars hidden in maps or earn them by performing well. Rescuing more miners than the mission requires grants extra stars: bringing back 12 when the objective is 10 earns 2 extra stars. You start with one basic helicopter; finding hidden parts in the base’s dangerous sectors unlocks two advanced models.

In Speedrun mode, race against a ghost of your best run and compete with friends for the best level time. Results are recorded on the Steam Leaderboard. Baby Mode gives you a protective field that lets you survive anything, but does not award stars or bonuses and does not count toward Speedrun glory. The game has no shooting or combat.