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Sixteen Tons Entertainment · 2023 · Windows

Steam: 69 % positive of 7,042 reviews, as of Oct 28

Save lives – be a hero! Join forces against the chaos in the newest title of the award-winning EMERGENCY series. Take up your shift as incident commander and coordinate with other players to fight fires, arrest gangsters and rescue injured civilians. Your city needs you!

24 games that play like EMERGENCY and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe, EMERGENCY 20 and EMERGENCY 3.

Player tags

  • Free to Play
  • Multiplayer
  • Strategy
  • RTS
  • Action
  • Online Co-Op
  • Real Time Tactics
  • Simulation
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Steam reviews

What players say

Mixed reception: players like the strategy and co-op fun, but many find the grind, microtransactions and solo difficulty frustrating.

Many players enjoy the frantic incident management, the card and unit system, and the fun of coordinating police, fire and medical teams, especially with friends. Some like it as a relaxed free game and say the visuals and performance are good. Complaints are sharper: many players find solo play nearly impossible past the mid levels, with several emergencies stacking up while only five units can be deployed, and progress is slow unless they pay for packs or boosters. Some say missions repeat quickly and that the game feels like a mobile title. Several report that the developers have stopped updating it, and a few describe a purchase that never arrived and no support answer. Recent reviews are too few to judge a shift, and the mood is mixed rather than strongly positive.

Praised

  • Co-op fun

    Players say the game is most enjoyable when coordinating with friends or a good team on harder missions.

    Many players
  • Strategic incident management

    Reviewers enjoy juggling several emergencies, timing responses and deciding how to use units under pressure.

    Many players
  • Free and relaxed

    Players appreciate that the base game costs nothing and that it works as a relaxed way to pass time.

    Many players
  • Visuals and performance

    Players praise the graphics, the physics and smooth performance even on older hardware.

    Some players

Criticised

  • Solo play too hard

    Reviewers say solo play becomes overwhelming at higher levels, with stacked emergencies and too few units.

    Many players
  • Pay to win and grind

    Players criticise microtransactions, booster packs and slow progression that push paying for upgrades.

    Many players
  • Repetitive missions

    Reviewers say emergencies and maps repeat quickly, making the game feel shallow after a few hours.

    Some players
  • No updates and no support

    Players say development has stopped and that purchase or bug reports go unanswered.

    Some players
Who it suits
Suits players who enjoy strategic emergency management and have friends or a steady team to play co-op with.
Who should skip it
Players who want a deep single-player campaign or dislike free-to-play progression should skip it.

Short vs. long playtime: Players under 20 hours and those past 20 hours both report mixed views, with newer players more often mentioning the fun start and longer players more often raising the grind and repetition.

Summarised by AI from 80 Steam reviews (English, helpful and recent), as of Oct 28, 2026.

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Plays and looks like EMERGENCY

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

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Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

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  5. Emergency 201464 % positive of 333Shared: Strategy · RTS · Simulation
  6. Door Kickers94 % positive of 8,055Shared: Strategy · RTS · Real Time Tactics
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By look

Looks like EMERGENCY

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

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At a glance

What games like EMERGENCY have in common

  • The tags they share most often with EMERGENCY: Strategy (19 of 24), Simulation (14) and RTS (9).
  • They came out between 2000 and 2026, 2 of them after EMERGENCY (2023).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Counter-Strike (95 % positive of 170,397).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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