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Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.

This Is the Police 2 is a strategy, story rich and turn-based game developed by Weappy Studio and published by THQ Nordic.
Released on July 31st 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Korean, Polish and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 6,106 reviews of which 4,607 were positive and 1,499 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.87€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified This Is the Police 2 into these genres:

Strategy Story Rich Turn-Based Singleplayer Management Indie Adventure Villain Protagonist Choices Matter Crime Atmospheric Simulation Great Soundtrack Turn-Based Tactics Detective Turn-Based Strategy Noir Tactical

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows Vista SP1
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD 4000, GeForce GT 330M, Radeon HD 4670 or equivalent
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX compatible
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.9
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD 4000, GeForce GT 330M, Radeon HD 4670 or equivalent
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Soundblaster compatible
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04, SteamOS
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD 4000, GeForce GT 330M, Radeon HD 4670 or equivalent
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Soundblaster compatible

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April 2025
A cold, gray morality, harsher than any blizzard.
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March 2025
7.5/10 Didnt really like the new turn based xcom missions, they were kinda fun but for me too stressful, I did like how certain cops proficiencies could be used as options during the calls you get. I save scummed because i dont like losing my cops to bullshit random chance. Game wasnt that hard though probably didnt need to. Loved the story, ending was a bit tragic but was satisfying overall, much like the original. Overall game was a great sequel and was a very enjoyable experience.
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Jan. 2025
This is a masterpiece. Despite leaving a negative review for the first game because of how much of a drag the gameplay was, I am glad I gave this one a shot. The gameplay doesn't consist of sitting around and waiting anymore, the entire thing is more concise and diverse at the same time, which made for a very pleasant journey. The storytelling remains as good as it was in the previous installement, and continues the story of Jack Boyd.
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Oct. 2024
I really loved this game! Personally I found it to be a very improvement in almost all aspects compared to the prequel. I loved the intro, loved the story, loved the cutscenes, loved the gameplay and loved the music! I think the length of the game is perfect, the prequel was amazing, but it felt too long and it killed any sort of short-term replayability. Looking at the negative reviews, I actually ended up liking most of the things people reviewed as a negative. I really liked the micromanagement aspect and the tactical assaults and combats. I liked the loyalty system and how once loyal, some cops will stop complaining about working two days in a row or being sent on a job with someone they dislike. There are only two things that I wish were different: the difficulty and the number of tactical missions. For the difficulty, I felt that overall the game was quite simple, taking out one gang and selling some drugs and gold bars means you'll be fine financially without much struggle. And once I paid to have the food system be automatical again I never had any cop being disloyal. Once your cops have some stats maxed you'll be fine with 98% of the calls, almost always if you have max stealth and choose "sneak behind the suspect", or if you have max negotiation and pick "calm the suspect down" you'll succeed. Towards the end of the game I started sending full maxed cops and picking a random option without even reading what was happening and I was still solving all calls without any cop or civilian hurt or killed. The final assault of the game also felt quite simple, the last waves were basically just copy paste of the previous wave and you can easily spawn kill all of the enemies. I also almost never felt a struggle with the number of cops and equipment, I think the "shop" should have been more expensive. For my other complain, I would have loved having more tactical missions like the circus assault and the ambush. It would have been amazing if some normal calls would actually ended up being some sort of ambush, with not only enemies coming at you, but also traps placed around. It'd also been fun if you could send some reinforcements after an ambush, and having them appear after a couple of turns. But aside from these two points, I really liked everything else and I really recommend this game.
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June 2024
Really appreciated the Northern Gothic/Noir police story vibes. The setting is great, a town spiritually somewhere between Fargo and Belarus that gives a sort of Alaskan vibe with eldritch horror lurking just out of sight akin to True Detective. Somehow they also managed to craft an better soundtrack than the first game, even when a song jumps a few genres it lands perfectly for the vibe. They really dialed in the game mechanics and the deputies under you feel even more like living characters with different personalities and watching them gain skill or pull themselves together when they become loyal to you is a really rewarding experience. The gameplay also follows the investigation style of a Sheriff's Department more than a typical big city detective which was a cool shift. The crime is both representative of a small town but also escalates to the point of what daily security and counter terror work must feel like in a town Northeast Syria. The contraband system and favor cultivating is great in this game too, really reminiscent of '90s police tactics like offering kids a boom box for info. Oh and one big difference between this and the first game is they added turn based combat to special tactical missions which I really enjoyed. The Police being limited to service revolvers and their special skills really made it click for me, it's a little bare-bones to some extent, but its still fun and they seemed to have done more to it in Rebel Cops. The story is more fleshed out in this one than in the first one and I almost feel it does more justice to the plot of the first game in the dialogue than the first game did, but I don't want to be harsh.
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This Is the Police 2 is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

This Is the Police 2 is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.

This Is the Police 2 received 4,607 positive votes out of a total of 6,106 achieving a rating of 7.36.
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This Is the Police 2 was developed by Weappy Studio and published by THQ Nordic.

This Is the Police 2 is playable and fully supported on Windows.

This Is the Police 2 is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

This Is the Police 2 is playable and fully supported on Linux.

This Is the Police 2 is a single-player game.

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This Is the Police 2 PEGI 16
14.99€ -88% 15.58€ 1.87€
7.4
4,607
1,499
Game modes
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Online players
19
Developer
Weappy Studio
Publisher
THQ Nordic
Release 31 Jul 2018
Platforms
Remote Play
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