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Rescue HQ: The Tycoon is a management game about building and running a joint headquarters for the fire brigade, police and ambulance services. You design and expand the station, hire and train staff, and provide them with vehicles, equipment and department-specific facilities. With a limited budget and emergencies competing for your time and resources, you must plan carefully while keeping your crew healthy and in good spirits.

Run the headquarters

Build the headquarters from scratch, purchase property to expand it, and add rooms for each department as well as shared spaces that improve employees’ mood and health. Staff follow their own routines, and a day/night cycle brings changing emergency types and requires you to manage shifts. You can develop rookies into veterans and assign firefighters to shifts according to their skills. The game includes settings based on San Francisco and Berlin, with corresponding vehicles.

The city mayor pays you based on your performance. Completing emergencies can bring money and reputation immediately, or rewards later through processed paperwork, treated patients and returned prisoners. Other rewards can include new team members, work stations and unlocks. Objectives and achievements guide your progress, while a long-term scenario sends waves of emergencies at set times; you can check the timeline and prepare for them.

Police operations

Send officers in appropriate vehicles, from patrol cars to SWAT units, to dangerous missions. Equip them with tools such as sniper gear, tracker dogs and bomb-defusal kits. Bring prisoners and evidence back from crime scenes, interrogate suspects and process the resulting files to earn money. You must balance this paperwork with dispatching officers, and prepare for major events such as a mafia boss’s trial or a football championship that can lead to major riots.

Fire and medical services

For the fire brigade, respond to incoming emergencies with the right vehicles and resources. Train firefighters to develop skills for specific mission types, assign them to shifts based on those skills, and equip them with items such as air tanks and hazmat suits for chemical incidents. Large firefighting operations can involve many people, vehicles and pieces of equipment.

In the ambulance division, care for patients in the headquarters’ medical station and expand it with facilities such as radiology stations and 3D printers. Stock items including crash carts, contamination suits and medical kits so your team can treat patients in critical condition. Their insurance payments provide income.

Emergencies and equipment

You handle multidisciplinary emergencies that can involve all three departments, while managing scarce resources and time. The game includes more than 20 vehicles, including helicopters, along with a wide range of equipment, skills and items. Missions are varied and can arrive unexpectedly.

Modding

Rescue HQ supports extensive modding of assets, maps and missions. You can create mods using the F# language and Unity engine, then share them through the Steam Workshop or download creations from other players.