1 hour ago · Life · 0 comments

I recently had a conversation with some friends about whether they could think of any first person search-and-rescue games where the player plays a SAR tech, medic, ski patroller, missing-person search party member, etc. and completes emergency rescue missions. None of us could think of a single one! This is fucking nuts, to me. The genre of first-person, helmet-mounted GoPro search-and-rescue YouTube videos is gigantic. These disaster rescue videos regularly get hundreds of thousands or occasionally even millions of views. SAR work is inherently videogamey, it's exciting, it's action-movie type shit, and it's clearly something that a lot of people love to learn about. However, most SAR-themed games are primarily vehicle games. One of the bigger ones on Steam, Stormworks, has first person gameplay... but it's primarily about the fantasy of designing vehicles for use in vehicle-centric rescue missions. I could sit around and guess for hours about why strictly medic/SAR games don't get…

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