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Dustoff Heli Rescue

"I need a Dustoff!" became an all-too-familiar call on the airwaves of jungle wars. Now take off with your rescue helicopter and search and save the life of the wounded soldiers in the field, often under fire…

70 6 March 2015

Dustoff Heli Rescue is an indie developed by Invictus Games Ltd, released 6 March 2015 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Dustoff Heli Rescue is

Dustoff Heli Rescue is an indie game developed by Invictus Games Ltd and released in 2015. It was published by Black Shell Media. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"I need a Dustoff!" became an all-too-familiar call on the airwaves of jungle wars. Now take off with your rescue helicopter and search and save the life of the wounded soldiers in the field, often under fire. If you can't, nobody else can! Find the stolen cargo with your Chinook helicopter and transport them safely to the nearby friendly base, all the while fighting off hostile tanks and other enemy combatants. Save hostages being held in Prisoner of War camps. They are desperately waiting for the remarkable sound of the evac helicopters. You are their last hope so save them all! Flying Dustoffs take courage on your part as a helicopter pilot, as ground fire is the rule rather than the…
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 14 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Dustoff Heli Rescue holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Dual core 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM and GeForce Go 7600 or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Dustoff Heli Rescue launched on 6 March 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0 and Pillars of Eternity. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, Pillars of Eternity.

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Dustoff Heli Rescue — frequently asked questions

When did Dustoff Heli Rescue come out?
Dustoff Heli Rescue was released on 6 March 2015 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Dustoff Heli Rescue?
At minimum, Dustoff Heli Rescue needs Dual core 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, GeForce Go 7600 or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 graphics, 600 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Dustoff Heli Rescue?
The PC version needs about 0.6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("600 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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