Rescue Mission
Drop in by helicopter with your team, reach the animal and break it out. On the way you'll run the RUSH, a flat-out dash down the streets with robots everywhere.
- Team of 4
- Quick
Closed alpha sign-up is open
Build your own Rescue Zooand help real animals
Bring an old zoo back to life, hang out at the Rescue HQ with friends and 100+ other players, then head out together to save animals from the Evil Coffee Machine's robots.
Free to play on Android and PC
From a real animal rescueThe animals in the story are real rescues who live at Odsherred Zoo Rescue in Denmark today.
Your home
Your own Rescue Zoo
The old Green Edge Zoo is overgrown and falling apart, and now it's yours. Clear the land, fix the place up and build it your way. You decide where the animal homes and paths go, how your cabin looks and how you decorate it all.
This is your home in the game. You come back here after every rescue, and the animals you save stay for life. There's a lot of land to win back, so your Rescue Zoo keeps growing for as long as you play.
Just like at a real rescue, you don't pick animals from a list. You help the ones who need it, and the homes you've built decide who can stay.
Online world
One world, full of players
Your Rescue Zoo is your own place, but you don't have to keep it to yourself: visit your friends' Rescue Zoos and show them yours. At the Rescue HQ you're in a big online world with 100+ players around you. Run around with your friends, meet new people, say hi on Rescue Radio and show off your teddy.
When you're ready, put a team together and head out on a rescue mission. Every rescue has four seats, and helper bots take any that are empty, so you can always get going.
Rescue missions
Go out on all kinds of rescue missions
Animals need help all over Rescue City. From your Rescue Zoo you head out with your team, pick a rescue mission and bring them home.
Rescue Call
A call for help comes in from somewhere in Rescue City. Go in alone or with a team, explore at your own pace, find the animal and take what you can carry. Then get out before the last flight leaves.
- Alone or team of 4
- Short or long
Coming soonRobot Rampage
A giant machine is tearing through Rescue City. Bring your team and take it down.
- Co-op
- Boss battle
Coming soon
SurvivalCo-op · Endurance
Battle RoyalePvP · Last team standing
Rescue Zoo DefenseStrategy · Co-op
Rescue RallyRacing · Multiplayer
We're working on these next. Each one joins the game when it's ready, so the list may change.
It all comes home
Whichever rescue mission you go on, the animals you save and everything you find come back to your Rescue Zoo. Use it to clear more land and build more homes. Keep your animals happy and your Rescue Zoo pays you back with a bonus on every rescue.
Pictures
Take a look around
Pictures from the game as it looks today. Click or tap one to see it bigger.
The game is still in development, so things will change.
Your teddy
Make your teddy your own
Your teddy is who other players see, at the Rescue HQ and on every mission. Pick your look in the locker room, collect new gear as you play and level up your skills.
The real Rescue Zoo
It all starts at a real rescue
About 30 years ago, Niko's parents bought a small zoo in Denmark and turned it into Odsherred Zoo Rescue, the country's first zoo and rescue centre for exotic animals in need. Around 600 animals live there today. Many came from testing labs, fur farms and the illegal pet trade, and they stay for the rest of their lives.
“I left the rescue zoo to work as a game developer, but about 8 years ago we lost my dad to cancer. I moved back to help my mother and the 600+ exotic rescue animals living at the zoo. Now I'm both a zookeeper and a solo game developer, and I'm using those skills to build something that can make a real difference.”Niko
The game tells these animals' true stories to more people. And when you buy something in the game, you help support the foundation behind the rescue. We'll tell you exactly how that works before there's anything to buy.
- ~600
- animals at the rescue
- 30
- years of rescue work
- 1st
- rescue centre for exotic animals in Denmark
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Real animals
Meet the animals in the story
The animals in the game's story are real, and these four live at Odsherred Zoo Rescue today. Their stories are true, and the game tells them gently.
Pet tradeKaja the caracal
In spring 2023, a 14-week-old caracal was left anonymously in the rescue's car park. She had been bought as a pet in Germany and smuggled into Denmark, and her owner couldn't cope with her. Today Kaja has a permanent home at the rescue, and her story shows why a wild cat is not a pet.
Read the true story
Fur farmThe fur-farm foxes
Four foxes were saved from being put down at Denmark's last fox farm. Until they came to the rescue, they had never walked on soil, slept in straw or lived with other animals.
Read the true story
Testing labThe Java girls
In autumn 2013, 18 Java macaques came to the rescue from a Belgian testing centre, where they had been used in cosmetics experiments. It was the biggest rescue operation the centre had ever taken part in. Today they live in a safe home of their own.
Read the true story
Surplus animalAnton and Farah the camels
Anton came to the rescue in 2017 as a surplus animal, a young male with no place left in his herd. Camels need company, so the rescue spent over five years looking for a partner. At the end of 2022 Farah arrived, a camel with a bad back who needed a new home. Today they share a big paddock and their own camel house.
Read the true storyPhone and PC
Play on your phone or your PC
On your phone
Play on Android, held upright. One hand is all you need: tap where you want to go.
On your PC
Play on Windows as a proper widescreen game, with mouse and keyboard.
Free to play
The game is free. You'll be able to buy extras like outfits and decorations, and doing so helps support the rescue, but you can never buy an animal, the story or a win over other players.
It's the same game on both, so you can start on your phone and carry on at your PC with the same Rescue Zoo and teddy.
News
What's new
The month your Rescue Zoo became home
We started October in the old zoo itself. It's properly run down now, with ruined walls you tear down by hand and junk that gives you whatever it was made of. Then came the small things that bring the place to life, like live cams on your animals' homes and Rescue card packs to open.
By the middle of the month the world had grown. The Rescue HQ got its locker room and fifty new things to wear, the PC version became a proper widescreen game with its own launcher, and Rescue Calls arrived: you drop into Rescue City, explore at your own pace and try to make the last flight out. We also filled the Rescue HQ with teddies to stress test the server, and it did well.
Then we went back home. Anything you clear in your Rescue Zoo now stays cleared, your cabin has styles and furniture to choose from, and you can put homes where you want them.
At the end of the month it all came together. Your Rescue Zoo is your home, and the Rescue HQ is where you head out from on whichever rescue mission you feel like. Everything you find comes back with you, every rescue ends with a reward ceremony, and you can hire keepers to look after your animals while you're away.
Right now we're polishing how the game begins and testing our first new rescue mission.
Closed alpha
Sign up for the closed alpha
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Help the real animals today
You don't have to wait for the game. The animals at the rescue need food, care and vet visits every day, and every donation helps.
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