Games like EMERGENCY
If EMERGENCY is your kind of game, the closest matches are EMERGENCY 20, EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe and Wargame: Airland Battle — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chaotic but rewarding coordination, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →EMERGENCY is a 2023 free-to-play disaster response management game developed by Sixteen Tons Entertainment. Players take on the role of incident commander, coordinating emergency services across scenarios involving fires, law enforcement, and civilian rescue. The game features card-leveling progression, difficulty tiers, and scenario-spawning systems that reward strategic unit coordination. Players describe the experience as challenging, stressful, and tense, with tactical decision-making under pressure being a central hook. The title offers deep solo and online co-op modes where chaotic-but-rewarding coordination becomes possible. Holding a 66% positive rating from approximately 1,999 Steam reviews, the game supports both single-player and multiplayer with a long campaign structure. EMERGENCY is playable on Steam Deck.
About EMERGENCY: 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!
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Steam players who put hours into EMERGENCY also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
EMERGENCY 20
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with EMERGENCY.
Top pick for EMERGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
Coordinate your team of first responders in the anniversary edition of EMERGENCY! Featuring 10 remastered classic EMERGENCY missions and three full campaigns, EMERGENCY 20 is the complete package for both experienced and new rescue commanders!
EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with EMERGENCY.
Second-strongest match for EMERGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
Coordinate firefighters, police, medical personnel and specialists in the classic EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe! Now with the previously untranslated bonus missions in English.
Wargame: Airland Battle
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with EMERGENCY.
Third-strongest match for EMERGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
Wargame: European Escalation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with EMERGENCY.
Ranked #4 for EMERGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with EMERGENCY.
Ranked #5 for EMERGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Fire Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with EMERGENCY.
Ranked #6 for EMERGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with EMERGENCY.
See what it means to face the fire. Command a firefighting unit in an exciting tactical RTS. Save lives, manage your water supplies and care for your team in 30+ missions. Be a real hero!
AI War 2
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with EMERGENCY.
Ranked #7 for EMERGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
Call to Arms
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with EMERGENCY.
Ranked #8 for EMERGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with EMERGENCY.
Call to Arms offers an innovative mix of real-time strategy and 3rd, as well as 1st person controls. Set in the time of modern warfare, the game offers realistically modeled vehicles and heavy weaponry. Command your troops to victory or fight by yourself in the 3rd or 1st person action mode.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Sixteen Tons Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
EMERGENCY 20
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with EMERGENCY.
Another title from Sixteen Tons Entertainment, the studio behind EMERGENCY. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
Coordinate your team of first responders in the anniversary edition of EMERGENCY! Featuring 10 remastered classic EMERGENCY missions and three full campaigns, EMERGENCY 20 is the complete package for both experienced and new rescue commanders!
EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with EMERGENCY.
Another title from Sixteen Tons Entertainment, the studio behind EMERGENCY. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
Coordinate firefighters, police, medical personnel and specialists in the classic EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe! Now with the previously untranslated bonus missions in English.
Emergency 2017
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with EMERGENCY.
Another title from Sixteen Tons Entertainment, the studio behind EMERGENCY.
There's no shortage of action in EMERGENCY 2017. Command firefighters, police, technical relief forces and paramedics in all new emergencies. With a brand new vehicle and large scale events, you'll take on rescue missions like never before!
Emergency 2014
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with EMERGENCY.
Another title from Sixteen Tons Entertainment, the studio behind EMERGENCY.
You have command of paramedics, fire brigades, police and disaster relief. Send your teams out on tense real-time missions to deal with disasters in Europe's major centres.
Emergency 2016
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with EMERGENCY.
Another title from Sixteen Tons Entertainment, the studio behind EMERGENCY. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
There's no shortage of action in EMERGENCY 2016. Command firefighters, police, technical relief forces and paramedics in all new emergencies. With a brand new vehicle and large scale events, you'll take on rescue missions like never before!
EMERGENCY 3
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with EMERGENCY.
Another title from Sixteen Tons Entertainment, the studio behind EMERGENCY. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
Their lives are in your hands - can you take the pressure? In this re-release of the classic EMERGENCY 3 it's your job to save lifes! Command many different first responder units in an exciting mix of simulation and real-time strategy.
EMERGENCY 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with EMERGENCY.
Another title from Sixteen Tons Entertainment, the studio behind EMERGENCY. Shares Strategy with EMERGENCY.
Save Lives! When disaster strikes it all comes down to you! Take command of firefighters, doctors and more in this EMERGENCY Classics re-release of EMERGENCY 2. Now playable on modern operating systems!
Frequently asked about EMERGENCY
- Does EMERGENCY run on Steam Deck?
- EMERGENCY is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is EMERGENCY free to play?
- Yes — EMERGENCY is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does EMERGENCY have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — EMERGENCY supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to EMERGENCY?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside EMERGENCY are EMERGENCY 20, EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe, Wargame: Airland Battle.
- Who developed EMERGENCY?
- EMERGENCY was developed by Sixteen Tons Entertainment.
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