Search and Rescue II (SaR II) is an open source helicopter simulator game for Linux and OSX. In it you can fly several helicopter and airplane models in some basic scenarios.

SaR II has low graphic requirements while still provides a fun and demanding gameplay where the player needs to locate, pick-up and rescue victims of all sorts in steep mountains, burning buildings or in the sea.

Check the game manual for extended documentation. After installing, run:

man sar2

For in-game help, press F1 while flying.

Game configurations are stored in $HOME/.config/sar2. Check the manual for more information.

Pre-compiled packages can be found at:

• Snap store
• Opensuse
• Arch Linux

No pre-compile packages yet. Check instructions to build from source below. Remember that in OSX you will either need the XQuartz's DISPLAY variable exported or to run the game directly from the XQuartz terminal.

Before you try to build and install Search and Rescue II, you'll need to have some development packages installed:

For openSUSE:

$ sudo zypper in \
scons \
Mesa-devel \
freealut-devel \
openal-soft-devel \
gcc-c++ \
libvorbis-devel \
xorg-x11-libICE-devel \
xorg-x11-libSM-devel \
xorg-x11-libX11-devel \
xorg-x11-libXext-devel \
xorg-x11-libXmu-devel \
xorg-x11-libXpm-devel \
libSDL2-devel

For Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install \
scons \
mesa-common-dev \
libalut-dev \
libopenal-dev \
libvorbis-dev \
libsdl2-dev \
libice-dev \
libsm-dev \
libx11-dev \
libxext-dev \
libxmu-dev \
libxpm-dev

For OSX:

$ brew install \
scons \
sdl2 \
openal-soft \
freealut \
libvorbis

$ brew cask install \
xquartz

Run scons from the root folder of the repository to build the game:

$ scons

The intermediary objects will be placed in build. The final game executable will be placed in bin/sar2.

At this point you can run the game directly without installing using the sar2.sh script:

$ ./sar2.sh

Note: In OSX you will either need the XQuartz's DISPLAY variable exported or to run the game directly from the XQuartz terminal.

To install the game, run:

$ sudo scons install

This will install:

• The game executable in /usr/local/bin/sar2.
• The data files in /usr/local/share/sar2/.
• The man pages in /usr/local/share/man/man6/SearchAndRescue.6.bz2.
• The icon file in /usr/local/share/pixmaps/sar2.xpm.

You can customize the install location with the --prefix flag:

$ sudo scons install --prefix=/usr

The source code provides a desktop entry and icon. If your system supports them, you can install them properly with:

$ xdg-icon-resource install --novendor --size 48 extra/sar2.xpm
$ xdg-desktop-menu install --novendor extra/sar2.desktop

SaR II is a fork of the game Search and Rescue.

Among the features of SaR II are additional mission and scenarios, SDL Joystick support with pedals and brakes, playable music, OpenAL sounds, numerous bugixes, smoother simulation, reworked physics, support for wind etc.

An additional Search And Rescue 2 game exists, but this is unrelated to SaR II (notice our branding uses roman numerals).

Released under the GNU Public License Version 2.