Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator

Fun Game, great potential but extremely buggy. Devs keep focusing on DLC and random things, but wont fix the glitchy buggy mess.

[h1]Instead of fixing the game-breaking bugs and most importantly - [b]the horrible performance[/b] - these devs are simply hungry for money and therefore they are focusing solely on DLC and useless so-called "free content" that nobody asked for.[/h1] [b]Refunded/10[/b] - Listen to your community, devs, otherwise that hunger for money is going to turn into starvation and inevitable "death" very fast.

Complete scam I have several reasons for this -several DLC's yet they are very low quality -Unable to leave servers (like 50/50 of leaving normally) -Super buggy -spawn zones don't detect other players unless parked perfectially -game bugs out when trying to extract patients -No good updates, the devs are money hungry -Interactions don't work 70% of the time -game sync IS THE WORST even worse than running on mcdonnalds internet trying to play Seige -no progression -Horrid game interface/interactions -Server list is slower than me getting up at 2 am for a flight at 2 pm -only 10 person servers + very toxic when playing on the modded servers -no way of reporting incidents through steam accounts -0 Optimization, physics took a hike, driving system is worse than driving a whale -punching does litteraly nothing -gun effects are non existant -npc's on calls just don't exist 50% of the time -calls self cancel for no reason -AI pathing is horrible Good things (kinda) -Light programming system + light effects -several varients of light systems (ie light bars, spot lights, etc.) -blinkers -modded calls (if they work its like a 75% chance) -swat (but very few calls) -head moves to where you are looking (kinda it tries) -flashlights for all characters -scene lights, road flares (led) traffic cones.

This is a decently fun game if you're willing to look past the numerous bugs. Flashing Lights allows you to play as a police officer, firefighter, or EMT. It's set in a fairly large open world where you can freely drive around accepting callouts. These range from the ordinary (illegally parked cars, motor vehicle collisions, allergic reactions) to the extraordinary (bank robberies, building fires, gunshot wounds). It has both single player and multiplayer. Single player allows you to use AI partners/backup, while online you're relying on other players. It's good when a server has a good mix of police, fire, and EMS. It can create a good synergy. This game is developed by a single individual. It's impressive what he's been able to accomplish. Unfortunately, the game is so, so buggy. Callouts glitch fairly frequently, especially online. For example, it's not uncommon for, say, someone playing as the police to call for EMS to help someone, only for EMS to arrive and the person is invisible to them. Fires appearing for one player but not another, etc. This stuff happens fairly frequently. However, the developer has been very transparent about the road map, and it seems like he's really working hard to improve the game. It feels like the game is overly ambitious. It's incredibly vast, but not very deep. The callouts have very little variation, so once you've seen a building fire callout, you've essentially seen all building fires. The map is large, but there's not a lot to it. I would have rather seen the developer focus on a smaller, densely packed map. The game's performance is not great. Granted, I play on a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro. I would imagine a better computer could handle it more easily, but it just doesn't feel very well optimized to me. I have over 100 hours in this game because, ultimately, it's fun! It really is a fun time. It's fun to get on with some friends or random people and just goof around. Especially when you get that synergy going. It feels really cool to be with a few other people in the fire department and roll up on a building fire and start cooperating to put it out. It feels like every role can contribute to a callout in a meaningful way. Police can handle traffic, EMS can handle treating patients, FD can handle putting out fires. I would recommend this if you just want a fun little romp around every once in a while. You can customize your car and drive really fast to emergencies with your lights and sirens. That's the main appeal of this game. You can do firefighter or EMT or police stuff with a fairly low barrier to entry. Just launch the game and start playing. Just don't expect it to be a very polished experience.

After many years, this game continues to have many game breaking bugs. The developers are slowly adding things that are secondary, but don't focus on bug fixing so there is no point in playing the game. Gets boring very quick and lack of optimization results in low performance. It seems the focus now is just releasing DLCs for stuff like lights and vehicles. The game world has had significant improvement, but it feels very static and all the scenarios are predictable and simple, not much effort has been placed in this.

I do not recommend this game, the quality is horrible, the game has many bugs, and it is un enjoyable.

It´s a very fun game, with many customisation and role play. It would be better if the traffic advisor could turn of any color, not only yellow. I give it a 8/10 because of that.

Good concept but super buggy. Missions disappear, NPC's teleport constantly or disappear. Sometimes the CAD doesn't work. NPC's may spawn out of nowhere and start shooting during modded missions. Basically making the game unplayable.

Its in a bad spot right now, the quality of graphics are sub 2013 era with really buggy and clunky movement. NPCs always get stuck and break the immersion of it. The police Ai are terrible and stare at walls. They need to fix the core AI aswell as make it feel alive. You feel as if you are walking in a fallout 76 launch test server.

fun game all 3 emergency services. and fun to all work together on 911 calls as a team

I've really been enjoying Flashing Lights! It's a fun and immersive experience, especially when playing with friends or jumping into public sessions. The variety of roles and missions keeps things interesting. That said, I do think the game would benefit from some performance improvements and AI pathing fixes, as well as addressing a few mission glitches. Still, it's a solid and enjoyable game with great potential, and I'm excited to see where it goes with future updates!

AI is very bad and also gameplay is extremely buggy. Sometimes it doesn't even spawn the mission. I wanted to play a chill game but after a while AI and the bugs makes it opposite of chill.

Definitely so much fun! Once I get a mic, it should be even better and I anticipate to join some servers! LMK if you ever wanna play?

Refunded. No active playerbase anymore, really buggy & the missions don't make sense. Also, if you were searching for roleplay, this ain't the game you're looking for.

Love the freedom and sandbox style freedom of the game.

I thought might aswell try it for 6 bucks on sale because I'm into this kind of stuff. Game was a buggy mess, couldn't even start the game the first time around had to restart the game and then it let me create a game. Then the graphics, even after turning up all settings, still sucked. If the game was good, they would be manageable and you would just have to deal with shitty graphics, but the game sucks on top if it. Super confusing, game makes no sense. Animations are horrible. I don't know what else to say. It's horrible.

Love this game. Somewhat realistic, with regular updates and bug fixes. Just wish there was a little more physics envolved in the game and more customization options to the vehicles themselves.

fun and amazing, deserve more love and mods

This game desperately needs a update, the controls, AI, and every part of this game are outdated. It is almost just hard to play. Not worth the price.

some in game features like back up just stand there and dont really give a clear way to provide assistance. fan to vent smoke did not work no matter where i placed it and my backup crashed into a ditch and was stuck. npcs will stop and never move, there was a suspected dui. when i checked the drivers of the 3 different vehicles that were blocking the road way no one was drunk and when they were released they just sat and let traffic build up. An assitance call led to me pulling up to scene, someone shooting at me as i pull in, the officer that called me sat in his vehicle the entire time and did not react at all to his partner being shot, nordid the person shooting aim once at him. realism is not a factor in this game, the npcs seem to have a very short program that if put in any situation other than walk or drive forward they freeze and wont move ever again. this had such a great chance at becoming a great game, it just needs alot more work for things to actually work.

8.5 / 10 | Should've found this game a lot sooner. I'm having a blast playing around with the lights for all three teams - Police / Fire / EMS - Can't change anything else though sadly. They've nail down pretty much everything there is to emergency. I do wish the graphics could be better, especially now in 2025 we got all kinds of software & graphics. Calls wise I wish there's a better jurisdictions in between stations and teams that way we don't have to drive across the map and back. The NPCs definitely need an upgrade, keeps getting stuck when requested to en route. Everything else is pretty good overall, if your an emergency response enthusiasts you'll definitely love this game.

One of the most low graphics emergency games that you will find thats cheap. Highly recomend.

I love this game! None of my friends have it yet, but I already know when they do that multiplayer will be awesome! Sure, it's buggy, but it makes for many funny moments.

Honestly love this game, tried other Police sims and this one seems to have the most potential. Think the thing slowing its popularity down is low server player caps at 10 people, if that changes to even 30-40, I feel people will feel more engaged. Along with more abundant traffic, especially with the city update :)

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Game is very fun in multiplayer when everyone's RPing. Be warned that the game is incredibly buggy, but the usual experience is still great.

This game sucks. The controls don't work well. I've played for less than 30 minutes, and I've had the game crash once and gotten permanently stuck inside a vehicle once. I'd say this is a "gotcha game"

I love it, one of the better simulator games, I just wish it was more controller friendly. But is definitely playable with a control or on a handheld like the ally or steam deck.

This game is bad. Like really really really really bad. After 3 hours I haven't encountered anything that is not bugged to hell - even the menus are. The controls are borderline horrible and don't make any sense at all. There is absolutely no quality of life whatsoever. It's a real struggle to get anything done and it feels like an open alpha rather than a full release. In multiplayer with the right people it's the absolute pinnacle of fun, if you are willing to let it happen. 11/10

Maybe it is a little bit clunky, but it works :> Definitely worth trying but only on discounts.

its a great game dont get me wrong but needs some bug fixes some missions will not go away after complete missions wont pop up anymore ater about a hr of play on online play need more things to do more players to be allowed on a server at a time more bots and not have them spawn right infront of you or .5 miles away thats stupid theres A few other tings immissing but this is a good game and im sure the dev will eventually make the game greater but for the price not bad not bad i like it

for now this game is full of bugs they need to fix it fast ass possible or the game is gonna by dead and they need to work on the graphics more

This is an awesome game!!! I wish there was friendly fire and more interactions for the civilian part of this game so RP could be a bit more immersive like Civs can idk commit a crime or be searched handcuffed etc... just more to the RP side of things with the civilian role you can be put as. Outside of that its an amazing game IMO best RP game ive played for emergency services! Would totally recommend to everyone.

Get armed robbery call Call backup units They kinda help You die in gunfight They no longer help They gun down nearby citizens as they flee

this game absolutely sucks in which its boring the graphics are the worse and i cant stand them this is why i refunded

a verey good game if like the fire severs ems or pd and its lots of fun

It is fun like GTA 5 but Emergency services.

Very fun and awesome community

really fun and the graghics are good

Game has potential but extremly buggy which ruins the gameplay and its very repetitive

i bought it a long time ago didn't not how to play and now i know why i refunded it the game is buggy has hell i can hardly play it the settings are bugged out when i try to change them. I don't recommend anyone to play this i'm only going to try to because i re-bought it on sale so i would save your money and buy something else.

amazing tho if the developers see this add a bigger map and dirt bikes

buggy but fun to play with MANY things to do in the game

simulator as a police officer. like it

This game is so unfinished and bad.

gets really boring really quickly

very fun game but very laggy but i love this game

it's a little glitchi but it's good

it is good if you are training to be a police fire or ens driver

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