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About the game:

STORMWORKS: BUILD AND RESCUE

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own sea-rescue service. 

Stormworks: Build and Rescue is a rich and dramatic physics playground. Take your custom-designed, block-based and programmable vehicles into fierce oceanic storms. Plan and execute thrilling rescues in a variety of challenging crisis scenarios. Export and share your meticulously designed vehicles and missions with other players via the Steam workshop. 

Stormworks: Build and Rescue - create, rescue and release your inner hero!

Featuring2 GAME MODESCreative mode
Creative mode is suited for players who like to let their creativity run free and wild. In this mode, you are not limited by number of components allowing you to create large and complex vehicles from the outset. Ideal for players who like to create scale replicas of real world vehicles or Wacky and ambitious creations of their own design. 

Career mode
Career mode focuses on progression and an overarching plot of starting your own search and rescue service from humble beginnings and building it up to cover the entire Stormworks: Build and Rescue world map. You will initially start off with limited components and build space and will have to complete various missions to unlock more components and money to buy larger building areas.

Survival difficulty options
You are now able to turn on the survival difficulty options in both creative and career mode. These settings will deliver a real challenge as it adds an extra level of difficulty to your search and rescue operation with the most in depth and advanced game features including: advanced engine and fuel mechanics, vehicle damage and a variety of player damage types that can result in player deaths including: 

1. fall / impact damage


2. fire damage


3. prolonged exposure to the sea resulting in hypothermia 


4. mechanical damage (rotor blades)


5. water pressure damage


6. ...and Sharks!
   
   

1. VEHICLE DESIGNConstruct vehicles by placing blocks in a rich editing suite, customize them with your own design and program their behaviour using the powerful in-game logic system. Choose from a wide array of components to assemble your own rescue helicopters, boats, submersibles and more…
   

1. NAVIGATE, STEER, PILOTTake to the sea, land or sky in your newly created vehicle. Navigate through over 15,000 square kilometres of ocean and islands in an amazingly dynamic world. Players will need to ensure that they create the right vehicle for the job as every mission is unique. 
   

1. RUN YOUR OWN COASTGUARDDesign specific vehicles to respond to challenging missions across open oceans, island facilities, remote rigs and more. Rescue survivors from the water, fight fires, help repair oil rigs, operate nuclear power station machinery and more. Create and share your own missions using the rich missions editor. Unlock new locations and components in career mode or explore your imagination in creative mode. 
   

1. PLAY WITH FRIENDSJoin your friends in cooperative multiplayer as you operate multi-crew vehicles, and execute complex missions involving careful planning and coordination.DRAMATIC, SIMULATED WORLDThe day-night cycle and dynamic weather system create diverse environments to put your creations to the test. From calm sunny mornings, to unforgiving stormy nights and even tsunamis - strong winds can turn the ocean from gentle ripples to fierce heaving waves, affecting your vehicles using physics-based hydrodynamics and displacement-buoyancy systems.