Anraga Studios and The Farm 51 announce Rescue Drone Simulator: Second Chance, a story-driven rescue action simulator set in the near future, in which the drone has become the people’s primary tool for rescue and survival.
Fires, explosions, natural disasters, infrastructure failures, missing people, and extreme weather events, during the campaign, the player, an emergency drone operator, must fly into danger whenever emergency calls. Assess the threat, decide how to respond, choose the right machine, and carry out delicate rescue operations under pressure.
When a person can’t go in, you send a drone:
The drone in Rescue Drone Simulator: Second Chance is not a flying camera, but a physical machine the player has to learn to control.
Mass, inertia, thrust, aerodynamics, battery, damage, and weather conditions all affect how the drone behaves. Wind can push the machine off course, extra weight will change how it responds to controls, and a configuration prepared earlier in the workshop can make a real difference during an operation.
The game will offer two control models. Simulator will be an experience closer to real drone piloting, while Arcade will use additional assistance, letting players with no drone experience jump in quickly too.Between operations, the player will upgrade and modify their machines, choosing parts that affect their performance, durability, and flight character.
Second Chance
The title Second Chance refers not only to the people rescued during missions. The unit is made up of experienced specialists who, due to accidents, illness, age, or traumatic experiences, can no longer do their former jobs in the traditional way. Technology gives them a way back.
It doesn’t replace their knowledge, experience, or instinct. It lets them use it again – to lead an operation from a safe distance, to reach places a person can’t enter, and to keep doing what once defined their lives: saving others. That is their second chance.
A near future with analog DNA
Although the game takes place in the near future, Rescue Drone Simulator: Second Chance deliberately moves away from a sterile science-fiction vision. Its audiovisual layer draws on the character of the ’80s and ’90s – industrial spaces, analog electronics, physical control panels, and equipment designed above all to work.
The project’s art direction is led by Wojciech Pazdur, CEO and co-founder of The Farm 51, previously associated with People Can Fly and co-creator of Painkiller. In Rescue Drone Simulator: Second Chance he also serves as art director and composes the game’s music, inspired by the sounds of the ’80s and ’90s.
“Rescue Drone Simulator gives us the chance to collide very modern drone technology with the aesthetics and musical sensibility I grew up with in the ’80s and ’90s. We don’t want to make a retro game. We want to create a believable near future with an analog soul – something more physical, industrial, and human. That’s why, beyond art direction, I’m also composing the game’s music myself. I want the visuals, the sound, and the atmosphere to speak the same language.” – Wojciech Pazdur, CEO of The Farm 51, Art Director of Rescue Drone Simulator: Second Chance
Disasters are the backdrop. People are the story.
The game’s story is written by Artur Fojcik, Game Director at The Farm 51, known for his work on Chernobylite and Get Even, a BAFTA Games Award nominee.
The campaign begins with rescue operations, but subsequent disasters, climate anomalies, and infrastructure failures start to add up to a larger crisis. Alongside it, the story of the team and the title theme of a second chance unfolds.
“A disaster becomes more than a spectacle once the player understands who they’re trying to save and who’s helping them on the other end of the radio. We want the characters’ stories to emerge from what the player does during missions, not just serve as breaks between them. Second Chance is the shared theme of these characters – each of them has lost something important, and each is trying to find a new role for themselves.” – Artur Fojcik, The Farm 51, Game Director of Rescue Drone Simulator: Second Chance
Rescue Drone Simulator: Second Chance is set to debut in Q1 2027 on PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Anraga Studios plans a simultaneous release on all three platforms.
