(For release on October 14, 2024, 5:00am PDT)
October 14th, 2024 - Toronto, Canada - Neo Harbor Rescue Squad, the newest title from veteran indie studio BancyCo (Home, Alone With You, Worse Than Death) is dashing onto PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Steam with sirens blazing on November 12th!
No need to wait until November to scrub up and start saving lives though as Neo Harbor Rescue Squad is also going to be featured in Steam Next Fest, starting today and running to October 21st. If you’re interested in diving into the dramatic buzz of Neo Harbor City early, you can play the updated demo now on both Steam and PlayStation 5 leading up to launch.
About Neo Harbor Rescue Squad
The Rescue Squad has long lived in the shadow of the Neo Harbor City's prestigious Fire Department, but no more! As the team's new paramedic rookie, players must respond to emergencies throughout the city, deal with difficult patients, and protect the squad's reputation against the machinations of news reporter Betty Woo!
Players will use a bold, frantic triage system to juggle multiple waves of patients on each call, capturing the urgency, unpredictability, and critical decision-making required of the job in an accessible way. They'll manage several scenes at once and employ special shields to buy time to strategize, all while the clock is ticking.
Players will also have to master over 50 intense (and sometimes hilarious) treatment minigames to stabilize those patients and keep them from going critical — from performing CPR, stopping nosebleeds, wrapping bandages, using a defibrillator, and so much more!
Inspired by real paramedics in Hong Kong
The game takes real stories of emergency personnel, as told to the team, and spins them into an over-the-top, dramatic tale of teamwork and rivalry. Co-Founder Nancy Yeung took major inspiration from her hometown of Hong Kong for Neo Harbor City's vibrant locales — including dim sum shops, night markets, and even an amusement park during a typhoon.
Players will make impactful choices throughout the city's gorgeous visual novel scenes, which feature animated characters, expressive voices, and (of course) a smarmy talking dolphin!
Media Assets:
- New gameplay trailer (4K): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMFicJOCIxU
- Official website: https://www.bancy.co/games/rescuesquad
- Steam page: https://go.bancy.co/NeoHarborSteam
- PlayStation demo: https://go.bancy.co/NHRSdemoPS5
Press contact: press@bancy.co
About BancyCo
BancyCo is a Toronto-based, independent videogame studio founded by Benjamin Rivers and Nancy Yeung. We've developed and published critically acclaimed games (Home, Alone With You, Worse Than Death) for consoles, PC and iOS since 2012.
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