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 are fired up to announce frenetic firefighting multiplayer Embr will launch on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch on Thursday 23rd September 2021, little over a year after the game first entered Early Access on Steam and Google Stadia.

Embr will also see a physical release on PlayStation and Switch the following day.

On top of all the Embr’s standard gameplay, the full release will include:

• 2 brand new expansive districts to explore housing 12 new hand-crafted levels.
• 13 new tools and upgrades to customise your firefighting experience.
• 5 brand new game modes to earn extra money your way.
• Daily and weekly missions for extensive replayability.
• Cross-platform play across PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Stadia.
• Extra difficulty settings and level mutators to keep things rolling.
• Tons of additional wearables, vehicle cosmetics, UI overhaul, achievements, and more.

“If anyone is expecting Embr to be a realistic depiction of an average day in the life of a firefighter, then they’re in for a big surprise,” says Howard Tsao, Team Lead at Muse Games. “Embr is the ultimate have-a-go-hero adventure, where everyone from the paper boy to the Gran who lives at the end of your street could fill their day by coming to save you from a blaze in your house - even if that means throwing you out the window in the process. In Embr, the ends justify the utterly manic means.”

Currently available on Steam Early Access and Google Stadia, Embr is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC on September 23, 2021 for £17.99/€19.99/$19.99, and will also run perfectly on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.