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Recovery Search & Rescue Simulation

Simulation

Developer Excalibur Publishing

“Rescue Team One to Base. Missing person found safe and well. Mission accomplished. Returning to base. Over.”Strap on your boots and hook up your compass - as a new recruit to Rescue Team One, you’ll need to use your expert tracking skills to locate a variety of important objects and missing people who have stumbled into the harsh and... From the Steam store page

40 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Oct 20, 2022 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

10
Rotten

4 positive · 36 negative
95% range 4–23%

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Steam's own rating
Very Negative
11 of 71 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What people are saying

Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.

Reactions

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  • Steam user Steam user …1002Steam reviews · Jan 10, 2014 · 4 h played

    This game is outright horrible. Apart from the epic title music, there's no other music in the game. The sound effects are minimal. The interface is unhelpful and the mission progress is baffling. The game is nearly unplayable. The most frustrating element is that the tasks are incredibly vague and difficult to locate. This game is mostly about finding small things like watches or footprints, but the graphics are so poor that these are nearly impossible to locate and the game does not make it…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8472Steam reviews · Jan 9, 2014 · 1 h played

    You don't play this game free roam. You play missions that are pre determined. The gameplay is not bad....BUT You get an objective like "go find this thing" and on the map it is supposed "high-light" the location of where to start searching for said thing or person. I've played about 7 missions so far and was only able to complete 3 - 4 of them because the map location is not showing up. I really hope this gets updated...gets add-ons etc. I believe it would be a very fun simulator. As of…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4269Steam reviews · Jan 17, 2014 · 1 h played

    I could find an acorn that has better qualities than this game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1555Steam reviews · Jan 16, 2014 · 1 h played

    Perhaps one of the worst 'simulation' games I have ever played (or attempted to play, in this instance). As another reviewer stated, the missions are exactly the same. Fail? No problem, just keep going. It's not like you'll be doing anything different anyway. I am absolutely baffled as to why I paid $11 for this - lured in by that epic starting music I suppose. I spent a good thirty minutes repeating mission three trying to find the next set of animal prints after finding the first. They…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0639Steam reviews · Jan 21, 2014 · 1 h played

    Don't buy this game. I say again Don't buy this game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7205Steam reviews · Jul 14, 2014 · 1 h played

    I'm really not quite sure what the developers were aiming for when they designed this simulator. What is claimed to be a 'Search and Rescue' simulator is more like a 'chase the red dot, and find the tiny objects hidden in the grass' simulator. You'll spend mission after mission traversing the countryside, searching for asthma inhalers, inflatable crocodiles, baseball caps, boots, and if you're really lucky, an immobile human being. Although the people looked more like broken animatronics slowly…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6045Steam reviews · Sep 25, 2014

    Cons: -Game runs poorly, despite so-so graphics. -No ambient sounds, none whatsoever. Or music. -Missions follow the same pattern ; go somewhere and locate the mission objetive. In that sense is an extremely simplified hidden object game. Pros: -....sorry cant think of any

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  • Steam user Steam user …7819Steam reviews · Feb 16, 2015

    In a sentence, I owe my life to this game. Before this game, I was an ordinary man, not too different from yourself, perchance. I'd get through the daily grind, and "do my bit" for society, and at the weekend, I'd relax with a glass of Mountain Dew and a session of CS:GO. This routine became so familiar to me, however, that I started to become disillusioned to the very idea of life itself. I started to question myself existentially and berate my psyche with grating interrogations; Why am…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7368Steam reviews · Oct 7, 2014

    This game is nothing more then a point and click version of hide and seek. All you do is pick crap up off the ground. This game should be really called click and search,.. no rescue, no simulation.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5669Steam reviews · Dec 29, 2021

    This is the game that made me question Steam's quality control

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  • Steam user Steam user …5365Steam reviews · Jul 1, 2018

    The only search and rescue needed is this game.. Total crap fest. DOnt buy it

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  • Steam user Steam user …7334Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2014

    This game isn't worth $1

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  • Steam user Steam user …6001Steam reviews · Jun 15, 2016 · 1 h played

    no, just no. bad in every single aspect, just do not buy

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  • Steam user Steam user …2306Steam reviews · Feb 15, 2014 · 2 h played

    As sad as it is, the graphics and 3D affect is quite poor and some of hte missions are so limited on time that the simulator quickly become a headacke. After a hour of playing this, i started to ask myself why am i playing this... I could sigh up for a Urban Search and Rescue team and it would be more fun and less of a waste of time than this.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0290Steam reviews · Sep 15, 2018 · 1 h played

    You basically walk or drive a mountain bike in an ugly world, looking for items in the grass. Avoid. 0/5.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5934Steam reviews · Nov 24, 2017 · 2 h played

    I kinda hurts to play

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  • Steam user Steam user …7313Steam reviews · Jul 17, 2017

    Tags: Adventure - WS - Walking Simulator Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Big - Empty - Unoptimized - On Rails Scripting - Uninspired Review: Busywork, Performance Optimization Issues, looks ugly without increasing draw distances which creates lag spikes often even on half decent hardware. Massive swathes of land with nothing happening in it. Launch a bunch of a small instances where you are on rails, going from map hotspot to map hotspot to satisfy quest log…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5439Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2015 · 1 h played

    I feel like it would be fun with a story. But the stamina bar is too ridiculous. If you bike too much you'll pass out and it's game over. I have not seen stamina this bad since I Am Alive

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  • Steam user Steam user …5944Steam reviews · Jun 23, 2014

    Possibly the worst game i have ever played -1/10

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  • Steam user Steam user …3169Steam reviews · Nov 26, 2020

    Started up the game. Jumped on a pig's back. Thought it was peng at first until I had to start looking for people.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0168Steam reviews · Jan 25, 2018 · 1 h played

    Received this game as a gift. From the start, I had high hopes. The opening music had me ready to single handedly rescue a schoolbus full of kids teetering on the edge of a cliff. I launched the game and grabbed my walkie and backpack before heading out for action. I then spent 20 minutes conducting a jittery search through bushes with quick bursts of frozen gameplay every few seconds while looking for a map that I'm pretty sure didn't even exist. I think the highlight of this game is the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7618Steam reviews · Aug 17, 2016

    Absolute garbage, stutters every 3 seconds, babbys first graphics, walking sim hypetrain, just no

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  • Steam user Steam user …7857Steam reviews · Mar 30, 2015

    I hate this game it doesn't even have ambient sounds or foot steps (I cant spell if anythings wrong)

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  • Steam user Steam user …4679Steam reviews · Jul 2, 2014

    In short: terrible game. longer story: bad graphics even on "fantastic"; lagging (i have quiet a good computer, but this game manage to freeze every 10 secs for 1-2 or seconds); nothing realistic in here, which is quiet a negative point, seeing that this game calls itself an simulator. your riding on a unbelivable fast bike, loosing stamania like hell, which you than have to refill with candybars all the time. basically your just running arround from point A to B which is almost everytime…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0795Steam reviews · Jan 22, 2014 · 1 h played

    First Impressions: http://www.cublikefoot.com/video/recovery-search-rescue-simulation-first-impressions/ Recovery Search & Rescue Simulation is a simulator for wannabe park rangers, by the team over at Excalibur Publishing. It's supposed to teach you how to be a park ranger and I, not being a park ranger, have no idea if they've accomplished this. If the game really depicts how a park ranger's life is, then it must be pretty dull. Recovery Search & Rescue Simulation basically has you run…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0124Steam reviews · Mar 26, 2021

    I ended up with this turd free with the "free game with purchase of a sale game" That game site should be ashamed to even offer this garbage. Plants are in the building through the floor moving back and forth, Graphics are so dated it makes me go hook up my Sega Genesis and play Sonic at least I enjoy that game still. If you get this game as a "free" game just don't bother wasting drive space, heck it is so bad it is good at being bad. Don't install it will give you nightmares.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6334Steam reviews · Jan 17, 2021 · 5 h played

    Ok, I'll buck the trend and give a positive. It's kinda sorta playable, but there's just nothing really there. But the game itself functions. But that's not why I'm here. I'm giving a positive review for exactly one reason. When you get off the bike it despawns and respawns the bike 30 feet above your head and it falls on you. Every single time. It's flipping hilarious and worth the $0.49 of admission.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8106Steam reviews · Aug 31, 2020

    world record fastest headache

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  • Steam user Steam user …5572Steam reviews · Jul 27, 2020

    Absolute garbage, basically just a trash walking simulator

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  • Steam user Steam user …4015Steam reviews · Sep 7, 2019

    While "Recovery Search and Rescue Simulation" is everything it says on the box, the box doesn't say much. Simulate being a park ranger in an open world national park, run around at superhuman speed and collect garbage and track animal footprints, and other similar activites, all of which involve just walking around from point to point. The graphics aren't terrible but it really is a very boring game. You'd be better off playing a game like Rust without any other players, and surviving in the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8097Steam reviews · Feb 3, 2019 · 1 h played

    might be the worst game on steam... garry's incident, guise of the wolf got a new challenger...

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  • Steam user Steam user …3343Steam reviews · Mar 8, 2017

    Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dont buy it!

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  • Steam user Steam user …0827Steam reviews · Feb 19, 2015

    Wasted 14 min + install time of my life! Not recommended, I can't even tell what ain't wrong about that game...

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  • Steam user Steam user …9264Steam reviews · Mar 30, 2014

    ♥♥♥♥ game not worth buying even if its on sale it doesnt even tell you what you have to do

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  • Steam user Steam user …0933Steam reviews · Oct 20, 2022 · 2 h played

    This game is fine as is an independent game, but I cannot recommend it. I’ve gone through all the missions, and it is horribly done. Just a few things to mention positives 1) Graphics are amazing on fantastic setting 2) Setting and concept is really neat 3) Gameplay is simple and I like it Things I am not a fan of 1) Energy meter seem a bit low 2) stamina need to be a bit more explained 3) Time feels short What I want to see is an open world for exploration and it is much bigger than it…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8199Steam reviews · Mar 25, 2021 · 1 h played

    This is without a doubt the worst game I have EVER had the displeasure of installing on my computer and playing.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5911Steam reviews · Apr 3, 2019

    This game runs terrible.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0717Steam reviews · Oct 20, 2017

    Rubbish don't buy please

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  • Steam user Steam user …0952Steam reviews · Jul 4, 2017

    I found the first bridge and tried to jump off of it to my death. didn't die. unrealistic.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5106Steam reviews · Dec 6, 2014 · 1 h played

    Awful, just awful. not even worth a witty riposte.

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