Stormworks: Build and Rescue

So close, yet so far. Theres a few things this game does exceptionally well, its a fun ship building sandbox, and if thats all you're after this game will probably be enjoyable for a couple hundred hours for you. There is absolutely no gameplay loop outside of sandbox despite what you may be lead to believe - career mode is badly broken and has only gotten worse with progressive updates. Industrial DLC adds a few fun parts, but resource collection and refining is also broken - after youve loaded a save a few times you will not be able to interact with any of the buy/sell points anywhere on the map. The search and destroy DLC is just weird, this game was never meant to be a combat game and it really shows. If thats what you want, get From the Depths instead. The space DLC again is weird, this was meant to be a game about running a rescue service. Doesnt really add much useful content, but it broke *LITERALLY* every single creation on the steam workshop, and theres numerous honestly gamebreaking bugs that persist (unsinkable ships in a shipbuilding sandbox defeats the whole point of shipbuilding, and thats the only thing this game has going for it)

It has very good graphics and you can create or download almost any creation

Unoptimized, often buggy, but when it works it is one of the best rescue games and creative vehicle builders out there

Really fun game, Use steam workshop to even enhance your experience

Best Game when it does not freeze or crash often on start up then after 2 min do it over and over

The modding community for this game is very vibrant and healthy which makes the experience when playing different every time.

This game is awesome. The only issue I had was my character wouldn't stop running no matter what, even restarting the game wouldn't help. I reinstalled it and I hope it will work.

very in depth workshop is great alot of fun but may get boring

It's fun. And it's not an EA game.


There's really no other reason to buy or not buy it.

Amazing game! I love the game entirely! , but I do wish the railroads didn't super glue the trains to it because of some creations intended use, but multiplayer, little rough. But other than everything else it's awesome and worth it entirely, plus the DLC'S it just adds to the fun in my opinion. And to the people who complain about it being slow, SKILL ISSUE AND GET BETTER WIFI. :)

extremly buggy multiplayer

Game is fun if you're ready for time to disapear while playing. Had it for my first weekend and put over 24 hours in playing learning building mechanics and building my first basic SAR boat. extremely fun and would reccomend playing either by your self or with friends.

Game is fun to mess around with but not great for completing actual missions or story

This game has a lot of potential, however it just runs horribly and it seems like the devs don't focus on what could improve the game. Multiple DLCs have added in mechanics that are half baked into the game, the physics although it looks simple, is horrendously complicated and will lag your game if you don't have a super computer, and multiplayer isn't playable unless all the vehicles are extremely 'optimized'. The only way your going to have fun is using this game as a sandbox. Anything complicated becomes a laggy mess and I feel like the devs don't have a good grip on who/what their community wants. If you want to play the base game its fine but will get boring very quickly. Ultimately your better off not buying this game as it just doesn't really have the guts to be what it wants to be.

The game has unmatched potential, but they still havent fixed the games core or engine. Meaning, once you load in boats that are like medium-large sized. You cant even play the game. Instead of fps drops, the game itself just goes slower, you fall, walk, jump in slowmotion. All these "major update" things dont matter because the content people spend hours on making can barely be rendered and used.

If the creators actually rewrote the core engine and rendering system and such - it would actually have massive potential.

I do not recomendate this game why? Cuz devolopers keep adding stuff but not fixing the main issues like lag, multiplayer and so on so just dont buy it

Game physics are completely broken and have been for over a year. The game was fun as it lasted, but the game dev has no intention of fixing the game they broke. The game mostly known for having fun and sinking ships now cannot simulate sinking ships as water doesn't move anymore.

Would definitely recommend playing, Solo is good but its more fun with other players or friends. I have a blast playing and I will keep on playing. Love the game and I hope the devs keep on making it better for us players. Thank You Stormworks team and have for the players have fun building, destroying an rescuing everyone. :).

This game is has a combination of different games. It has thing from BeamNG.Drive, Railroads online, and minecraft. Pretty cool game. 5/5 stars

i change my mind, it was that addons

This game is fun! you can build stuff to save Pepole, go in creative and make tsunami pods, rescue pepole, search and destroy, and more! and Credits to Youtuber @Neotastic because without them i wouldn't know this game existed!

Recomiendo este juego sobre todo para aquellas personas aficionadas al mundo de los vehículos, no contiene una gran variedad de vehículos en cuanto al juego pero en el mercado de steam hay +2000 vehículos de todo tipo gratis, sin lugar a dudas un juego muy entretenido.

I love this game because it's so realistic, and you can get mods from the steam workshop to make your creations even cooler.

Get this game on sale and have a whale of a time with friends. Desync apparently is resolved by limiting the game to 60FPS (Use libstrangle via the command 'strangle 60 %command%' on Linux). It's pretty cool, I like building stuff in this game to simulate things simply, and with complexity...

Even tho its fun, it is very complex. Unlike other games, you cant just put an engine and some wheels to get moving, you need to put together the coolant, the engine, set the traction for your wheels, and add logic for steering. And im not even sure if thats all you have to do.

Also, can someone tell me why there's several hundred trailers.

THis game is fun, engaging and intresting. Definetly check it out. You can explore, build, and play around with lots of things.

best game to go fishing and it still keeps the old bit of the game too it too best game if you wanna waste some hours

Its addicting to keep getting better at this game and i don't know why. i got this game about 2 and a half weeks ago and already have 74.5 hours on it at the time of review. great game should buy if you like complex and beautiful master pieces.

absolutely amazing game i love some of the mods out in the workshop i defineetly recomend this game to anyone who love building vehicals, search and rescue snd just messing around.

Amazing game! 2 words... vehicular adventure. very industrial too, and i love the community that makes these things with such talent. I wish i was a better builder.

even though i mostly play it alone i do have alot of joy playing both rescueing but also building and thinking outside of the box to solve problems at all terrian really great game keep it up.

it is rely fun and i like it i wish they gave us a tutorial on the plane and train. very ez to use mod if u don't know how to get mod i hive a Gide

I think this game is pretty fun but if you are not into the very technical side of games so it is more for people who like intelligence requiring games.

This game is very good and fun to play with friends, recomended BUT it lags very often

very VERY good game, very cool water mechanics and i love how you can get vehicles off of the steam workshop because i'm totally inept at building in game

Amazing game, if you are buying it to build, it will consume you. Your only waking thoughts will be how to do the next thing and the next until your creation is finally done and you are consumed by the next and the cycle repeats itself.

If your buying it to goof around with workshop builds, then you’ll have fun flying around or blasting civilian vessels out of the ocean :)

Stormworks is perfect for creative players who enjoy simulation, design and roleplaying. Constant updates and an active playerbase are the icing on the cake.

Great game mechanics, easy to set up multiplayer with and an outstanding amount of mods

It is very fun if u get the search and destory mod

Very great game. can easily spend hours if your creative. I have around 350 hours in game. hope devs create great updates in the future.

I had been following this game for years, since it was still unreleased and just a fun little project. But in 2024 i got the game. i have played the game almost everyday since and i love it, you can always learn something new about this game and there is never a shortage of content to explore.

Pretty much a sandbox, just have fun destroying things and causing natural disasters. Very fun!

I don't build nothing i be using the community creations to do the rescue missions and stuff, still a helluva fun time.

its a really good sandbox, Roleplay, general fun kinda game. you can do anything you pretyy much want

Great game that gets updated a lot.

A little laggy in multiplayer but increably fun.

Very hard skill curve when making things but very rewarding and advanced

This game is worth getting if you are into complex creativity. The learning curve is a bit hard but with inspiration and dedication, you can figure it out like I did.

This game is very good in my opinion. This is a game for builders that are looking for a realistic build that function, or people just wanting to check out our community in the workshop. However, there are some drawbacks. This game has 3 dlcs so not all of the elements are usable in the base game. It also limits the amount of creations you can get because they can require dlc. Now the important part, the 1.9 fluids and gases update. This update changed alot of the creations on the workshop. Planes require air pressure in the cabins now and ships now struggle to sink. Alot of older creations are broken. I do still recommend this game as these problems can be worked around. If your looking for tutorials Mrnjersey and 454ssstormworks are good options (sorry if I spelled their names wrong)

Base mechanics are prototype stage, no actual navigation is available, it's too hard to navigate, but playing with friends is ridiculously fun.

good game for ship neards and fun to [put npcs on boats

This is another of those reviews that I hate to write. At launch, I would have strongly recommended this game, but at this point, I do not recommend purchasing this game. I will elaborate for those interested.

Any modern adult gamer will easily understand what I am about to describe because we have seen it numerous times, and you can usually see that it is true when developers freak out after it is said. This game is streamer bait. It wasn't always, at launch it was a solid search and rescue style survival builder. You create aircraft, boats, submersibles, etc., and use them to complete missions for rewards. Seems like a perfectly reasonable gameplay loop, and it was, until the streamers got hold of it. The devs, as you may expect, have an unhealthy obsession with how streamers feel about their game. The POIs on the map are even named after most of these streamers.

Why is this an issue? It's an issue because VERY FEW of these streamers actually engage with the decent gameplay loop that I described. Instead they just build in creative, and fly around randomly to entertain the audience. The devs see this, and assume that all people who play the game, are doing so with the purpose of entertaining an audience, which is clearly ludicrous. The first DLC (Industry) was reasonable since supplying fuel was always a critical part of the gameplay loop, and I can only assume that this DLC was planned before launch, and consisted primarily of unfinished launch content. After that, they must have thrown the only employee with common sense out the window.

The next DLC was search and destroy, it added weapons and warfare...to a search and rescue game. Why? Streamers were spending their time crashing planes into each other to entertain the audience, and throwing fits because they wanted guns. They even mobilized their viewers to launch a campaign to get this added. This DLC is entirely useless to the gamplay loop I described, and no new loop was created. You just have the option for the AI to shoot at you while you run missions.

Next, the space DLC was added, and I lost all patience with these devs. For some reason these "individuals" (I am self-censoring here) launched a search and rescue game using a physics engine that lacked air pressure management . . . in a game that has missions that can require a submarine. This was fine for the most part of the game's existence. We all knew it wasn't realistic, but that's just how it was. When the space DLC was added they were forced to retroactively add in gas physics. This broke every single creation on the workshop...ALL OF THEM! Today, some creators have retrofitted their creations to work, but most workshop creations are broken in MANY ways. You'll suffocate standing in the cabin of your boat, your tanks can't transfer fuel, engines don't run correctly, sinkable craft no longer sink, refineries can't refine fuel, the list goes on. All of this happens if you own the DLCs or not. It was forced down our throat. Why would they do such a dumb thing? You guessed it, the streamers needed something else to entertain the "individuals" watching them crash ships into each other.

And so here we are today, the game is fundamentally broken in every way imaginable. Unless you only play in creative, it's worthless. The early survival gameplay loop that earned all these upvotes you see? It's unplayable. The streamers continue to push more bad ideas, and the devs continue to worship them. With every passing year, this game just keeps getting worse and worse, but at least the streamers are getting paid. BOYCOTT STREAMER BAIT! It's bad for the game industry in the long run.