SOS OPS! Save the City, Badly, Together

You play a team of emergency responders. In theory. In practice, someone fights a fire, someone carries a cat to safety, someone drops a teammate off a roof, and someone has no idea what the objective is but keeps trying anyway. Missions move fast and ask for constant movement, and the game never punishes you for doing something stupid instead of the plan. Nobody checks whether the rescue was done properly. The win condition is really how loud the room gets.

The physics engine is the whole personality of this game. It breaks careful plans, turns simple actions into chains of failures, and occasionally hands you a victory nobody intended. Climbing, carrying and driving all wobble, so a straightforward rescue can end with a teammate flung across the map or a vehicle doing something no emergency service would approve of. If you like games where the plan falls apart in the funniest possible way, this is that. If you want precise, reliable controls, it will test your patience.

This is a party game in the truest sense: simple rules you can explain in a minute, short missions, and comedy that comes from watching each other fail. Grab up to four players, online or together, and every round produces moments nobody saw coming. There is no tutorial and no tedious setup, so you can hand a controller to someone who has never played and they will be contributing to the disaster within seconds. The cartoon look is bright and cheerful, which suits a game where the fire brigade is the biggest hazard.

The game is built around a lobby: join up, pick a mission, and coordinate (loosely) with up to four players. The co-op story missions range from quick three-minute jobs to longer operations, so it works for a short session or a whole evening. You can also jump into PvP and PvE modes with other players online. One honest note: this game is far less fun alone. It is made for the back-and-forth of a group, the blaming, the rescuing and the accidental sabotage, so bring people.