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Firefighting Simulator - The Squad

Chronos Unterhaltungssoftware · astragon Entertainment · 2020-11-17

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Nov 17, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Firefighting Simulator lets you experience what it means to fight fires up close as an active part of a major US city's firefighting crew - together with up to 3 friends in the co-op multiplayer- or in the single player mode.

Firefighting Simulator - The Squad is an Action, Simulation game released in 2020, priced at $24.99, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (81% of 5312 reviews).

7
playing now
81%
positive of 5.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3.44★
PlayStation Store rating (3,232 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Firefighting Simulator - The Squad trailer thumbnail

Firefighting Simulator - The Squad - Release Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games

≈988,254 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 100 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,305 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 28,080 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 107k–240k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,329 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2026-04-03) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 148 of 149 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.1k1.1k20202026Week of 2020-11-01: 1,149 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 156 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 312 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2312026-09-16 05:00 — 8 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 6 players2026-09-18 20:00 — 13 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 8 players2026-09-21 11:00 — 9 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 17 players2026-09-24 02:00 — 6 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 11 players2026-09-26 17:00 — 16 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 7 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 12 players2026-10-01 23:00 — 10 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 14 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 22 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 10 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 4 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 23 players2026-10-09 21:00 — 12 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 7 players2026-10-12 12:00 — 10 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 15 players2026-10-15 03:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
9950Sep 2017Aug 2026Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2020 — avg 267 · peak 603Feb 2021 — avg 100 · peak 236Apr 2021 — avg 59 · peak 136Jun 2021 — avg 54 · peak 167Aug 2021 — avg 44 · peak 83Oct 2021 — avg 42 · peak 99Dec 2021 — avg 48 · peak 138Feb 2022 — avg 45 · peak 99Apr 2022 — avg 39 · peak 113Jun 2022 — avg 34 · peak 75Aug 2022 — avg 85 · peak 320Oct 2022 — avg 59 · peak 157Dec 2022 — avg 104 · peak 262Feb 2023 — avg 54 · peak 132Apr 2023 — avg 47 · peak 109Jun 2023 — avg 46 · peak 125Aug 2023 — avg 43 · peak 93Oct 2023 — avg 44 · peak 112Dec 2023 — avg 46 · peak 103Feb 2024 — avg 37 · peak 92Apr 2024 — avg 41 · peak 137Jun 2024 — avg 43 · peak 103Aug 2024 — avg 35 · peak 81Oct 2024 — avg 33 · peak 79Dec 2024 — avg 58 · peak 156Feb 2025 — avg 37 · peak 82Apr 2025 — avg 34 · peak 91Jun 2025 — avg 31 · peak 73Aug 2025 — avg 32 · peak 73Oct 2025 — avg 20 · peak 62Dec 2025 — avg 19 · peak 55Feb 2026 — avg 22 · peak 65Apr 2026 — avg 22 · peak 80Jun 2026 — avg 18 · peak 50Aug 2026 — avg 21 · peak 55
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$29.54$4.992020-11-172026-08-242020-11-17 — best price $18.742021-01-11 — best price $18.742021-02-27 — best price $18.742021-04-05 — best price $21.132021-05-09 — best price $21.132021-06-24 — best price $18.742021-09-03 — best price $17.492021-11-04 — best price $21.242022-01-05 — best price $24.992022-03-08 — best price $21.242022-04-30 — best price $16.862022-06-24 — best price $17.492022-08-14 — best price $12.302022-11-15 — best price $20.992023-01-12 — best price $21.242023-03-25 — best price $18.742023-06-22 — best price $14.992023-09-21 — best price $24.992023-12-21 — best price $14.992024-03-16 — best price $16.122024-05-05 — best price $18.362024-08-10 — best price $24.992024-10-17 — best price $23.742025-01-10 — best price $14.092025-04-04 — best price $8.992025-06-05 — best price $24.992025-08-29 — best price $24.992025-11-20 — best price $12.592026-01-21 — best price $24.992026-03-19 — best price $8.742026-05-05 — best price $18.742026-06-25 — best price $4.992026-08-11 — best price $18.742026-08-24 — best price $12.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
93.5%
earned "First Steps"
29.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

13 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Turkish…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)10,2322%30
PS5 (PlayStation)8,1644%31
Steam (Steam)3,6941%30
PS4 (PlayStation)2,9754%31
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DCo-opActionCasualDrivingSandboxStrategyAdventureRealisticOpen World

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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