(For immediate release on August 18, 2025)
(August 18th, 2025 — Cologne, Germany) Canadian indie studio BancyCo have announced at Gamescom 2025 that its colourful, frantic paramedic game Neo Harbor Rescue Squad will be released for Nintendo Switch™ in early 2026.
This arcade-style action title fuses the mechanics of popular medical-themed games from the Wii and DS era with fast-paced, challenging minigames, making it a perfect fit for Nintendo’s Switch™ family of consoles. Players will be gripping their Joy-Con™ Controllers for dear life as they manage complex scenes and triage patients throughout the game’s beautifully-illustrated locales.
Save lives at the Indie Arena Booth at Gamescom 2025
Neo Harbor Rescue Squad was selected for the Indie Arena Booth at Gamescom. Players are invited to play a new demo of the game at the booth, which is in Hall 10.2 at Koelnmesse GmbH.
The game’s main theme was also selected for the official Indie Arena Booth soundtrack vinyl, produced in collaboration with notable label Black Screen Records. The record is available as a Gamescom exclusive in their booth at Hall 5.1 / A043.
About Neo Harbor Rescue Squad
The Rescue Squad has long lived in the shadow of Neo Harbor City's prestigious Fire Department, but no more! As the team's new paramedic rookie, players must respond to emergencies throughout the city, deal with difficult patients, and protect the squad's reputation against the machinations of news reporter Betty Woo!
Players will use a bold, frantic triage system to juggle multiple waves of patients on each call, capturing the urgency, unpredictability, and critical decision-making required of the job in an accessible way. They'll manage several scenes at once and employ special shields to buy time to strategize, all while the clock is ticking.
Players will also have to master over 50 intense (and sometimes hilarious) treatment minigames to stabilize those patients and keep them from going critical — from performing CPR, stopping nosebleeds, wrapping bandages, using a defibrillator, and so much more!
(Rated ESRB 10+ / PEGI 3 / USK 6. Also available on PS5, PS4, and Steam.)
Inspired by real paramedics in Hong Kong
The game takes real stories of emergency personnel, as told to the team, and spins them into an over-the-top, dramatic tale of teamwork and rivalry. Co-Founder Nancy Yeung took major inspiration from her hometown of Hong Kong for Neo Harbor City's vibrant locales — including dim sum shops, night markets, and even an amusement park during a typhoon.
Players will make impactful choices throughout the city's gorgeous visual novel scenes, which feature animated characters, expressive voices, and (of course) a smarmy talking dolphin!
Media Assets:
- Official Nintendo Switch™ Announcement Trailer: https://youtu.be/l2imaZJ3ZqQ?si=SvbFYDHatD4muZmT
- Official website: https://www.bancy.co/games/rescuesquad
- Steam page: https://go.bancy.co/NeoHarborSteam
- PS5 store page: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/neo-harbor-rescue-squad
Press contact: press@bancy.co
About BancyCo
BancyCo is a Toronto-based, independent videogame studio founded by Benjamin Rivers and Nancy Yeung. We've developed and published critically acclaimed games (Home, Alone With You, Worse Than Death) for consoles, PC and iOS since 2012.
Company site: https://www.bancy.co/
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Neo Harbor Rescue Squad was co-developed with another veteran Toronto studio, Laundry Bear Games, who have helped bring many titles to consoles, PC, and mobile — including Venba, IMMORTALITY, and Ooblets.