At a time when our take-out is biked over to us by CEOs trying to bolster their savings in the evenings, and our cabs are driven by anyone with a license and access to four wheels, it makes you wonder whether any of these everyday heroes could turn their talents to some of the bigger jobs.

Do we really need to hit 911/999 when we spot smoke streaming from a building? Yes, yes we do. Just for fun, however, let’s imagine an alternative reality where all such emergencies are handled by the people on the street - where the butcher at the end of the road supplements his wage by driving ambulances in between customers, and the headmistress at your local school fills time between classes performing operations on the backstreets.

Players will work through a variety of missions to earn money and upgrade their firefighting tools and lease better vehicles and fire trucks, all while dealing with competition from the Canadian firefighting startup Hosr. Staying competitive, however, relies on players working together, planning firefighting and rescuing in dense environments with complex systems interactions; water, fire, gas, electricity, and structure integrity all have a role to play.

Players will work together in online co-op multiplayer to earn tips from clients, earning the ever-so-crucial 5-star rating in order to earn cash, upgrade tools, and become the ultimate ‘have-a-go hero’ firefighter.

In Embr, players come together to create unexpected and ingenious solutions...or they can have a lot of fun failing.

Curve Digital and Muse Games announced that Embr gamers are set to be treated to two major, free updates to the game before 2020 is out.

Out yesterday, the first update includes a brand new district featuring a fresh office environment. With packs of printer paper and to-go coffee cups outnumbering most office workers, you can imagine just what kind of tinder box you and your vigilante firefighting pals will be walking into!

Full content for the first ‘Winter update’ and its brand new district can be found here: 

• New office space environment
• New mini-campaign with additional levels: 
• New items including a vacuum grenade
• Embr Gear Drop: Medic
• Truck cosmetics: 1 New vehicle chassis and decorations: rims, siren, hood ornament

Following on from that, a further major update later in December will feature yet another new mini-campaign - one where players work for BoxBox delivery and cleanup, couriering boxes to clients quickly before help them clean out their old cardboard using your unique Respondr skills - and multiple new levels, as well a brand new ice gun.

The second ‘Holiday update’ will include: 

• New mini-campaign with three new levels.
• New items, including an ice gun
• Embr Gear Drop: Holiday
• New truck cosmetics, including a siren and hood ornament

Embr is available on Steam Early Access and Google Stadia for $19.99/€19.99/£17.99.

Embr is in development for PC (Steam) and Google Stadia.