Flashing Lights is a single player and multiplayer emergency services simulator focusing on police, firefighters and emergency medical services. Enrolling with one of three departments, players will take on unique missions and rewards in an open world.

Enrol with the police, emergency medical services or fire department and take on missions unique to each service in an open world. Engage in desperate car chases, diagnose life-threatening injuries, and put out lethal fires! Each department has its own vehicles and equipment for you to operate while on duty. Play in single player, or work together with friends in online multiplayer to tackle incidents across a shared world.

Players will team up with friends online and divide their team between the three emergency services at will. They'll race around the open world in various vehicles, to where they are needed, working together to help civilians in accidents or catch a fleeing criminal.

Excalibur Games has revealed its plans for the April, May and June 2020 updates, which includes new missions for the police department, emergency vehicle lights customisation and more.

Developer Nils Jakrins is also continuing with major background work that will ensure Flashing Lights is bigger, better, faster and stronger before the end of the year. More on that in the coming months.

Since Early Access launch in June 2018, for PC and Mac, regular content updates have ensured the game's ongoing popularity. This highly successful, online multiplayer emergency services simulator has sold over 120,000 copies to date.

Q2 2020 Roadmap

In April, we’ll be delivering three new police callouts, while also enhancing vehicle interior dashboards with functioning dials. These features, along with the player vehicle sound sync in multiplayer, brings us up to speed by delivering upon the remaining options in the previous two community roadmap votes.

May will be a little different than recent months. In addition to continuing to develop new content, you’ve asked us to fix some specific issues, and we hear you. Some of the issues run deep, which is why Nils is undertaking the large scale background work. However, we also know there are lots of smaller issues, some of which have been present for a while, that we would like to address. On their own these small issues are not game breaking, but we know that once some of them are addressed it will make the game much better. We appreciate your support and understanding that bugs are a part of Early Access development. May will be our time to look at fixing some of the outstanding issues you have all been asking for.

In June, we’ll be delivering vehicle lights customisation, including options for lightbars, grill lights, rambar lights and more. We’ll also be giving you the option to customise emergency lights patterns and colours. A vehicle lights customisation system has been one of the most requested features for a long time, so we’re glad to be able to fulfil that wish in June.

Thanks to the amazing support you've shown so far for our community translation project, we've already been able to complete and implement new languages. This project, using Localizor, is still ongoing, and we're still looking for players to help translate the game into remaining languages. If you're interested in getting involved, check out the Steam announcement.

Usually the first to respond to a criminal incident, the police are equipped with the fastest cars and use a variety of equipment. Their roles vary from handing out parking tickets to engaging with dangerous suspects. They will do everything they can to prevent criminal activity and put a stop to any crimes in progress. Ranging from traffic cones, to spike strips, to speed cameras, you'll need to kit yourself out:

• Spike strips
• A variety of Weapons
• Traffic Cones and Police Tape

As a medical specialist, your job lies in keeping members of the public alive, treating patients for severe wounds, diagnosing injuries and more. Further to this, Ambulance Operators can also heal other players in multiplayer, which is vital in particularly dangerous jobs. Life-saving work requires life-saving tools and equipment:

• Medical bag
• Stretcher
• Ambulance

The role of the fire department extends far beyond putting out flames, as they work closely with medical services on the scene, prying open crashed cars so that medical staff can get to the injured is vital, for example. The fire department won’t engage in the pursuit of suspects, but will handle the aftermath of an incident, including, of course, putting out fires. Battling flames and freeing trapped civilians is going to involve some heavy duty gear:

• Jaws of Life
• Axe
• Hosepipe
• Fire Extinguisher
• Firetruck

Team up with fellow players online and divide your team between the three emergency services at will. Race around the open world to where you are needed. Work together to help civilians in accidents or clean up the trail left behind from a high-speed car chase.

You'll receive emergency calls to action, and successfully completing missions will earn you experience points within your department. As you prove yourself to the Emergency Services Division, you'll be assigned more dangerous and important jobs. But if you start to slip up, don't be surprised to see yourself falling back down the ranks.

Flashing Lights features a thriving open world that will see emergencies break out through day and night. From bustling city streets to rural countryside mansions, this is an exciting and varied open world. Environmental physics make police car chases all the more engaging, with both you and the suspect leaving your mark on the world.

Watch the city and its citizens' behavior change as you move from day to night. Types of emergency incidents change as the traffic dissipates and the bars open, making drunk drivers and fist fights more common.