In 911 Operator on Steam, you must ensure law and order in your city while arresting serious criminals and rescuing cats from trees.
What kind of game is this? In 911 Operator, you take on the role of the nice person at the emergency call center. You are the first point of contact when people are in distress. However, you are not just answering phone calls; you need to dispatch the few patrol, ambulance, and fire trucks to the incidents.
Like in real life, you usually have too few teams for too many incidents and need to prioritize. However, you should not wait too long for the fire department to rescue the cat from the tree; eventually, the owner might take a ladder from the shed and could end up breaking a foot during the rescue. Then you’ll need an ambulance in addition to the fire department.
Here you can watch the trailer for the game:
Difficulty makes the game exciting
How does the game remain fun over time? To keep you from getting bored, 911 Operator becomes more challenging with each shift. You receive more missions for your teams, the callers become more demanding, and sometimes you need special equipment.
Ideally, you would have provided your staff with this in advance on such a mission day; otherwise, the possibility of failure arises, putting your response teams at risk of injury and then being out of action.
In the endgame, you’ll really be able to prove yourself, sending two dozen teams to countless missions simultaneously while the phone keeps ringing. It can even get really stressful.
Where does the title take place? In 911 Operator, there is a special feature: you decide where you play. You have every city in the world at your disposal. Even smaller places can be easily loaded by integrating a mapping service. So you can protect your own city.
911 Operator is currently free on Steam. If you secure the title by Wednesday, October 29, you can keep it for free forever. At the same time, the publisher Games Operators is currently running a sale on Steam, where you can also grab the sequel 112 Operator for €4.19.
911 Operator offers fun for several hours, and the integration of your own city as a game world is an interesting idea. However, the title is by no means as complex as the typical 4X strategy games: A strategy game could have been the alternative to the mediocre Civilization VII, but after 18 months, the developers are giving up
