Do you love management games? Do you enjoy playing as a manager of emergency services such as police, firefighters, or paramedics? Did you enjoy the game 112 Operator? If the answer is yes, Global Rescue is the game for you!
Global Rescue is a simulation game where the player starts with initial capital and borrowed money to build their base. The base construction is initially paid off as a loan from the bank, but in small enough installments that it goes unnoticed.
Along with the built base, the player is given the option to build a space of their choosing for dispatchers who take emergency calls, a bathroom, a kitchen, a break room, and a dormitory. All employees are selected by the player, where employees have certain statistics to watch out for, such as space satisfaction, hygiene, hunger, etc. The construction itself reminds the player of The Sims, but on a much smaller scale, which is to be expected.
After the employee spaces, which include police officers, firefighters, and paramedics, the next step is to arrange the parking lot and purchase vehicles. Along with the base, the player needs to designate "small" parking spaces for police cars and smaller ambulances, as well as large parking spaces for fire trucks and larger ambulances. Each parking space can be assigned to a specific vehicle with a click, and only that vehicle will park in the assigned spot.
The game seems simple at first, but the more you play, the more frequent the calls become and the more work there is to do. The player starts only with police vehicles, but over time, they are offered the option to unlock fire trucks, later ambulances, as well as SWAT special unit vehicles.
The dispatcher takes an emergency call, and the player must select the correct vehicle and send it to the location from which the call came; the situation must be resolved within a certain time if the player wants to avoid penalties in the form of money deductions.
For each completed mission, the player earns money and XP points to level up. With each higher level, special points are earned that can unlock upgrades. When we mention upgrades, we mean a larger number of vehicles for a specific service, automatic vehicle washing, automatic refueling, reduced dirtiness on vehicles, and lower fuel consumption. For both police and fire services, it is possible to unlock more vehicles, but new fire vehicles can be unlocked using those special points. For the emergency medical service, it is only possible to unlock a larger number of vehicles, but we believe that the developers will unlock more types of vehicles as well as everything the community would like to see in the game.
The developers have set up an active voting system for what the community wants to see next in the game, from several planned features such as:
A detailed representation of hills and mountains based on the geographical data of the area where the player is playing.
A hospital in the base as well as cells for criminals who have been arrested where they will be temporarily held.
New equipment for officers that would allow for faster and more efficient mission resolution.
A line for emergency services on the roads.
A sandbox mode, where players could build without worry and complete tasks without pressure.
Classrooms where employees can train and improve, thereby increasing their statistics and efficiency in completing missions.
A multiplayer mode for multiple players simultaneously.
Police patrols and more dangerous locations where police control is needed
Climate change and weather change
Expanded base construction, multi-story buildings, improved road construction, and arbitrary road connections
More emergency service vehicles
The developers announced that they will soon be counting votes for the next things they will work on and that will come to the game, and they will announce what will come next after the vote counting.
After the game's release, one of the newer features added by the developers is the ability to control multiple units at once as well as simplified vehicle assignment to missions; now the player can select a vehicle and then click on the mission they want to send it to.
What makes this game similar to 112 Operator is the world in which the player manages all emergency services, but also the fact that the game can be played in any city in the world. For the purposes of this review, we played the game in the Zagreb neighborhood of Utrina, in the village of Ždrelac on the island of Pašman, in the western part of Zagreb around Barun Filipović Street, as well as in Novi Sad. That is what makes this game special. You can play in one of the offline available cities or enter a location of your choice, wait a moment for the geographical data about that location to download, and start the game anywhere in the world.
Since the developers allowed us early access to the game, during our first playthrough we encountered a major "bug." In the version before the official release, you could spend money in construction mode infinitely, which we didn't like very much. After spending money, with an enormous deficit in the account, we had no funds to buy the vehicles needed for developing the situation and further gameplay. However, the developers got to work, hammered on their keyboards, and delivered a fixed version in which such a situation no longer occurs. In addition, the developers opened a Discord channel, creating a large community of eager people, players from all over the world. At the game's release on April 27, the game was in a better state with various fixes, addressing both major issues and smaller so-called QoL (quality of life) improvements to make the game feel more natural and enjoyable.
The developers shared on their Discord channel that they reached 4000 concurrent players on the Steam platform in just a few hours. The developers release news almost daily about what they have fixed and what will come in the next updates.
If you enjoy simulator games that involve emergency services, this is the game for you; if you like management games with emergency service units, this is the game for you. And if you love the idea of being able to play anywhere in the world, this is the game for you. The game is available in early access on the Steam platform for the price of €19.99 until May 11, 2026, and then €24.99.
A copy of the PC version of the game for review purposes was provided by the publisher Aerosoft
