Stormworks: Build And Rescue is a simulation video game developed and published by the British studio Geometa (Formerly known as Sunfire Software). The game was released as an early access title in February 2018 for Windows and Mac and is receiving frequent updates through Steam. The game left early access on September 17, 2020.

Stormworks is played in a randomly generated open world physics playground, composed mostly of ocean and small islands which lie off the coast of Scotland. The game centers around the theme of running a coastguard rescue service with a variety of vehicles, which the player can build on a 'Workbench' with an assortment of blocks, engines, sensors and special equipment. As the player explores the world, the in-game map is created, in which they can fast travel to locations they've discovered. These vehicles, ranging from airplanes and helicopters to boats, terrestrial vehicles, and trains can be used by the player to complete various diverse missions to earn in-game currency. It currently has three modes: Career, Creative, and Classic career in which players can choose from an array of settings.

In Career mode, players are given control of a starting island that contains a small boatyard, a simple boat and a small house. Players will need to complete missions to earn money to build new vehicles. The player can travel to other islands and buy them when they have enough in-game currency. These purchasable islands usually provide a larger building space or specialized building space (e.g. Terminal Camodo has an exclusive railyard where trains can be built). Within career mode, there are a lot of variables including enabling first-person play only and having limited fuel, or changing daylight hours. A small challenge within career is that crude oil can be bought to later be refined to then be sold for money.

Classic is intended to resemble the Career mode during the Early Access. Classic behaves like Career mode, with the main difference is that components have to be unlocked using research points before they can be used in vehicles. Also, the entire map is cloaked, and the area has to be explored before it's shown on the map.

Custom, sometimes called creative mode, is a sandbox gamemode where players are not limited by resources; they can create vehicles using the editor without limits and can be granted access to all islands instantly, allowing for very large vehicles to be built early game. After recent updates, it has been made possible for players to choose their default bases, including a Heliport, Mainland (Airport or Harbor base) Island with a small boatyard among other bases. The game also supports the Steam Workshop to download and upload community-made vehicles, game mods, and missions and loads them directly into the game. In the 1.0 Update, the mode was renamed from Creative to Custom mode.

Creative mode also unlocks the custom menu, that allows you to change the time, weather and all other things at will. You can use this menu to spawn entities such as the kraken or the megalodon. You can spawn many disasters such as tsunamis, whirlpools, tornados, and volcanic eruptions from one of two volcanos in the game.

Conquest mode was added with the addition of the first paid DLC. This mode can be activated in the creation menu, and can be combined with career or creative mode. This adds the ability to weaponize vehicles, and a more combat oriented experience, alongside the rescue missions. The DLC added both player held and vehicle mounted weapons, like autocannons and machine guns.

There are a variety of missions, ranging from delivery missions to rescue and firefighting missions. The missions are generated over time and will expire when their time limit has been reached; if a player has no active missions they can return to their house and sleep until new missions appear. A 'bed' component is also available which can be mounted on vehicles where the player can go to sleep.