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Tornado: Research and Rescue
Experience the thrill of becoming a storm chaser in Tornado: Research and Rescue! Capture twisters with a 90's VHS camera, warn towns, customise chases, and get up-close for thrilling photos. Deploy probes, collect data, and upgrade your truck, radar, and probes. Mod vehicles with Steam Workshop!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-15.
“Great game simulating tornadoes it's very fun to play”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“Tornado: Research & Rescue has been such a fantastic project so far, brought to us by one guy (Sam Kennedy). The early access is finding fans all across the weather community!. The game is getting more optimized and updated frequently as the early access/alpha build stage moves…”
— a player, Steam review · 29 hrs played“This game is pretty jank and may not run the best at times, but its so fun!”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
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Latest official news
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v0.33.0 - Free Cam, Time Freezing, Basement Sheltering and LOTS MORE
There's a lot packaged in this v0.33.0 update! The dust was too dusty, so I've dialed that down quite a lot - now you should have a clear view of the tornado unless you're up really close or it's extr
Barns, Farms & Industrial Zones - v0.32.0
v0.32.0 is part of my ongoing effort to make the map feel more alive and populated. I still have a long way to go but this feels like a step in the right direction. We now have farmsteads that are pro
v0.31.0 - Tornado Logbook & Updated Tornado Behaviour
I am genuinely excited to release this update! (v0.31.0) it introduces a tornado logbook, consisting of personal bests/records and an individual record of every tornado you intercept. Each photo you t
Introducing the SD60 Freight Train! - v0.30.0
Version 0.30.0 brings something I have wanted to add for quite a while: a freight train and level crossings, in this case the SD60. There will always be at least one freight train line, maximum two, a
v0.29.0 - Road Signs & Major Optimisations
v0.29.0 brings procedurally generated road signs and major optimisations to debris physics and ground scouring rendering. I was able to increase my debris limit from 400 to 1000 while streaming and sa
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Simulation · Open World · Driving · Destruction · Action · Physics · Nature · Science · First-Person · 1990's · Action RPG (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 30 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel I3 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 1050 Storage: 3 GB available space