Stormworks: Build & Rescue
Description
Stormworks: Build and Rescure is a physics based sandbox game developed by company Geometa. The game uses a voxel low-poly style for terrain as well as a block-based building style for player vehicles. It was first developed and made available for Early Access in February of 2018 and left Early Access on September 17th 2020.
Stormworks is available on both Windows and macOS and is available to play both single player and multiplayer.
Gameplay
Stormworks Gameplay surrounds the construction of (but not limited to) vehicles. There are thriving communities who develop everything from Submarines, Work Boats, War ships, Tanks, Race Cars, Classic Cars, Planes, Passenger Jets, Fighter Jets and so much more. You make your creations in the Vehicle Workbench where you select parts from the menu to build your craft in whatever shape desired. There are some unique features such as the Logic system where you can create dedicated PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) nicknamed "Micro Controllers" in game. Within these Micro Controllers you can use various logic gates, as well as limited Lua boxes to allow your vehicle to execute hyper specific tasks. Boats float, planes fly, cars drive, all vehicles that you build can function in the world (however the level of functionality is determined by the skill level of the user).
In-world Tasks and Opportunity
Once a vehicle has been constructed, it can be spawned into the world at the Vehicle Workbench and can be used by the Player in anyway they see fit, there are various objectives in vanilla Stormworks including attempting Search and Rescue missions wherein a collection of NPCs have spawned with a damage or on fire vessel whether it be a car, boat or crashed plane and the player is tasked with putting out the fire and returning the NPCs to the nearest hospital location. Other missions include repair requests, wherein a vehicle will be damage and in need of repair by the player (using the blow torch), long distance towing wherein a vehicle is damaged beyond repair and needs towed to specified location, NPC transport wherein an NPC needs to be moved from one location to another. There are also non-mission objectives such as cargo hauling whether it be with containers or liquids.
DLC Overview
There are also various DLC that add additional gameplay features such as Stormworks: Search & Destroy (which adds weapons and a new game mode), Stormworks: Industrial Frontier (which adds mining & processing, a new isle (the Arid Lands), as well as various wild life to the world), and Stormworks: Space (which introduces the ability to go to space, hydrogen rockets, other space-related components such as RCS, and the ability to land on the moon).
Workshop
Stormworks heavily utilises the Steam Workshop to share vehicles, addons, micro-controllers, and mods. The Steam