Stormworks

Stormworks Build And Rescue
Developer(s)	Sunfire Software
Publisher(s)	Green Man Gaming Publishing
Platform(s)	Windows macOS
Release	February 28, 2018
Genre(s)	Simulation
Mode(s)	Single player Multiplayer

Stormworks: Build And Rescue is a simulation video game developed and published by Sunfire Software and published by Green Man Gaming Publishing.^[1] The game was released as an early access title in February 2018 for Windows and Mac.

Gameplay

The game is played in an open world physics playground it currently has 2 modes Career and Creative, the game centres around the theme of running a coastguard rescue service with a variety of vehicles the player can pilot.

Career mode

In Career mode Players are given control of a starting island that contains: a small boatyard, a simple boat and a small house, players will need to complete missions to earn money and new components to build new vehicles.

Creative mode

Creative is a sandbox mode where players are not limited by resources, players can create vehicles using the editor and are granted access to the largest island with a large shipyard and large hanger allowing for very large vehicles to be built.

Missions

There are a variety of missions, ranging from delivery missions to rescue and firefighting missions, the missions are generated over time and will expire when their time limit has been reached, if a player has no active missions they can return to their house and sleep until new missions appear.

Some missions will require either specific components or vehicles to complete the missions, firefighting missions will require a vehicle that can tackle the blaze and large evacuation missions will require vehicles with a large enough capacity to escort all the stranded characters to safety.

Building

The building in Stormworks works on a block-based building system, players will create vehicles by placing cube and wedge shaped blocks to form the structure of the vehicle with buoyancy being calculated by the size and shape of the hull. Once a player has created the structure of their vehicle they will need to add components such as engines, rudders and pilot seats and program them using the same logic system. Stormworks: Build And Rescue has support for land, sea, air and vehicles along with Submarines, with specific components such as aerofoils and Gyro to support the different types of vehicles.

Reception

Stormworks: Build And Rescue Beta and Early access has received some positive attention largely comparing it to similar titles such as Kerbal Space Program, “Yes, as it turns out. Stormworks: Build & Rescue doesn’t just want to take the Space Engineers/Kerbal Space Program idea and throw it somewhere in the North Sea – it demands precision in all things.” ^[2]

Stormworks Build: And Rescue has received has also been covered by Rock Paper Shotgun and PCGamer ^[3]

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