Rescue HQ - The Tycoon
Fair · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $3.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since May 2019. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 6.4h
- Value
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 80% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 80% ($3.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was March 2025. It has been discounted 46 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 33 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 42. The current cut is what makes it a 55.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Two Point Campus ($29.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master ($24.99, scores 31).
Of the 405 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
72% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Introduction : Rescue HQ - The Tycoon est un jeu de gestion développé par stillalive studios (Bus Simulator 18) et édité par Aerosoft, sorti en mai 2019. Le concept est original : construire et gérer un QG commun réunissant pompiers, police et ambulanciers sous le même toit, en jonglant entre les urgences des trois services. Ce que j'ai aimé : [*]🚒 Le concept unique de gérer les trois services d'urgence en même...
Rescue HQ - The Tycoon is a management simulation game that takes the traditional tycoon formula and applies it to the demanding world of emergency services. Instead of building theme parks, factories, or transportation empires, players are tasked with constructing and operating a fully functional rescue headquarters responsible for handling police operations, firefighting services, and emergency medical response...
The dev's went and made a carbon copy of this game called Global Rescue. There is no point in buying this as this is the lower tier, less content brother of the new game.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Rescue HQ - The Tycoon scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/809720/rescue-hq-the-tycoonReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 2.
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