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EmergencyCrank 2026

Lucas Kundigraber

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EmergencyCrank is the first Playdate idle game for lifesavers! Start with a tiny rescue station and crank your way up to a regional emergency campus. Turn the Playdate crank to earn cash, hire staff, buy upgrades, and unlock ambulances, rescue drones, doctors, and helicopters. Dispatch calls bring quick minigames involving timing, memory, D-pad inputs, first-aid questions, crank control, and motion-controlled … EmergencyCrank is the first Playdate idle game for lifesavers! Start with a tiny rescue station and crank your way up to a regional emergency campus.

Turn the Playdate crank to earn cash, hire staff, buy upgrades, and unlock ambulances, rescue drones, doctors, and helicopters. Dispatch calls bring quick minigames involving timing, memory, D-pad inputs, first-aid questions, crank control, and motion-controlled helicopter landings.

Your station keeps earning between missions, while the dispatch ticker delivers real, unusual, and funny callouts inspired by the developer's time as a volunteer paramedic in Austria. Return each day to choose a free reinforcement for your crew.

Complete the station to unlock New Game+, choose a Prestige Focus, research permanent Command Academy bonuses, collect cosmetics, and chase achievements across multiple runs.

As you can see, there's plenty to do, lifesaver. Read more

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Developers
Lucas Kundigraber
Genres
Indie
Themes
Action
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Release dates

  • Jul 07, 2026 Playdate