$24.99Global Rescue Command every emergency in your city
Run your own emergency services base: police, fire, EMS and SWAT under one roof, on real map data from anywhere on Earth. Dispatch vehicles, keep crews and fleet ready, and watch every call play out live on the streets of your hometown. In which city do you take command?
Is Global Rescue worth it?
Global Rescue is worth it if…
- you like tycoon and management sims with a twist, closer to Two Point Hospital than a city builder
- you want to play in a real place, ideally your own town
- you enjoy juggling several emergencies at once and deciding how hands-on to be
- you like building and decorating a base, not just running one
- you want fresh missions, since the mission editor lets you create your own operations
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Your hometown, with sirens
The map is real. Pick any spot on Earth, from Paris to Tokyo to Rio de Janeiro, or enter your own zip code and run emergency services down streets you know. Calls come in with real street and business names, so a shoplifting report at the hardware store you pass every week needs no address lookup. The map data is not perfect, but it is close enough to recognize your own corner of the world. Building your fire station on the exact lot where the real one stands is half the fun.
Four services, one dispatch desk
Police, fire, EMS and SWAT all answer to you. A call might mean extinguishing a fire, treating an injured person, questioning witnesses, running an alcohol check or coordinating a high-risk SWAT operation. Vehicles drive to the scene and park there, crews step out and visibly do their work, and traffic backs up behind your blocked-off street. When things get busy you can zoom in and direct it all: which vehicle parks where, which crew takes which position. Or leave the detail alone and just keep the city covered.
Building a base that works
Before the first siren sounds, there is a floor plan to get right. Wash bays, parking spaces, garages and fuel stations keep the fleet ready to roll; offices, break rooms and sanitation facilities keep the staff efficient. A wide range of objects and furniture lets you shape the place to your taste, and an extensive research tree drives expansion as demand grows. Get the layout wrong and your shiny new engine sits in planning limbo while the call ticks away.
A fleet worth showing off
Twenty-seven highly detailed vehicle types span American, European and Asian designs across all four services, in standard liveries or custom skins. Owning them is only the start: each one needs parking, fuel and a wash to stay deployment-ready, and a neglected vehicle is one that fails you mid-shift. For collectors of emergency vehicles, this is the good stuff, and the cartoony 3D world gives every truck and ambulance a bright, readable look from above.
Can you play it more than once?
Does the game change depending on where you set up your base?
Yes. Because the map comes from real-world data, every location brings its own street layout, distances and call spots. Running emergency services in a dense European capital plays out differently from covering a sprawling American suburb, and the game leans into that: you can start over in a new city whenever the current one feels solved. Between locations, the mission editor adds another way to keep things fresh, letting you build your own operations when the built-in scenarios run dry.
How much control do you have during a mission?
As much as you want. Responses play out live: vehicles drive to the scene, crews get out and work where you send them. You can watch from a distance and only handle dispatch, or step in and decide which vehicle parks where and which crew takes which position. The game lets you choose the level of detail per response, so a quiet shift can run almost on its own while a big incident gets your full attention.
