Alarm112: Fire Unit

I don't write a lot of reviews but this game is very basic, it's not worth the current price and isn't fun. I normally like dispatching games but I figured that we would be able to answer the calls, ask the questions maybe find out what's going on and then dispatch the units. I also thought I'd be able to view what the engines looked like but when going to the shop, they are very small and hard to see icons, it's not till you buy the vehicle when the picture shows up bigger. In my opinion I think this is a early access game and not a full release, their trailer even has flaws in it when there are flashing lights but not vehicles in it, and that the system doesn't select all the appropriate units. - At this moment, I would recommend to save your money and wait for a sale to happen. The game has potential but not right now.

This game gets a soft recommend from me, if such a thing exists. It's got good bones, it's a pleasant enough dispatch manager, but it's got a bunch of weird, odd and/or incomplete features that weighs it down. On the good side: Development and progress of your units. Specialization through equipment and training. Build stations whereever you want and need. Varied incidents. On the bad side: Vehicles don't follow roads in some (many) places. There doesn't seem to be a differentiation on travel speed for different road types. There is no "incident radius" obvious - your fist little station technically covers the whole map - it doesn't, there's no super-far-away incidents, but there's no indication of this expansion of responsibility. There's no "outside help" for incidents you can't handle yet. The game is like 90% translated from Polish to English, but there's lots and lots of spots remaining. The keyboard shortcuts for speed do not work once you have any window open. There's lots of clicking to get to some places. Some (many) incidents are not worked until you make a choice on approach (risky, balanced, careful) - but this stopper is not a popup or pause, so the firefighters just sit there watching the house burn I suppose? There is limited differentiation in vehicles. You can't rename the name-brand vehicles. You unlock new skills for training, but that also immediately unlocks new incident types - that you haven't had time to train for yet. All in all, these are all minor issues... but the list does go on and on. That is fair, it's a single-dev game. This could become "proper good" at some point, with time. It isn't, yet.