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This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

This Is the Police is a strategy, management and story rich game developed by Weappy Studio and published by THQ Nordic.
Released on August 02nd 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 8 languages: English, German, Russian, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.

It has received 10,606 reviews of which 8,782 were positive and 1,824 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

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

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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
  • OS *: Windows XP 32
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Geforce 7800, AMD HD 4600, Intel HD3000 or similiar
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 5 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX compatible
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.8.5
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GT 330M, AMD Radeon HD 5750M, Intel HD 4000 or similar
  • Storage: 5 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Soundblaster compatible
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GT 330M, AMD Radeon HD 5750M, Intel HD 4000 or similar
  • Storage: 5 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Soundblaster compatible

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April 2025
It might seem like just another simulation or RPG, but deep down, it feels more like a moral test against corruption.
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April 2025
A really interesting and well-written narrative game crossed with a resource-management strategy game. You are a fading policeman teetering on the edge of forced retirement with only 6 months as chief of police to enact your aims and steer the city's fate whichever way you want. The art style works, the voice acting is almost universally fantastic, and I found myself looking forward to whatever new story event or cutscene the game would throw my way - although these were sometimes buried beneath overlong stretches of gameplay where nothing would happen. I really enjoyed the core gameplay, but it did get a bit repetitive. You send out cops to distress calls, which consumes their time and risks their safety (very often) - it is a very good system that is regularly spiced up with new narrative perils or twists that change the way you play. Your cops can sharpen their skills with every success or slip back (or die) with every failure, depending on how much support you afford them, and that progression really lets you feel the sense of achievement and even pride in your little guys. That system might be not sound too original, but what was really fun was toying with the more nefarious options to get rid of or silence them when they weren't playing along... As you can tell, the game's tone is gritty, but in one specific area it felt like too much - the detective-led cases. This is the one part of the game that I gave up on, despite being really attracted to the premise. The idea is that after assigning detectives to cases, they periodically supply you with new evidence that you then arrange to solve the crime. With certain operations this leads you to a crime syndicate, and you can infiltrate them with informants, interrogating their members until you gather evidence to topple their leaders for a fat bounty reward. In principle, this is amazing. In practice, my detectives would die at random (permanently closing the case), fail to find new evidence panels for weeks in a row, or once evidence was found it would be extremely subjective or inaccurate and I often had to use a guide to satisfy the game's extremely specific conditions. Despite this I really enjoyed my time with Jack Boyd, and the game as a whole - recommended.
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Jan. 2025
This is genuinely one of my favourite management games because it requires you to be a bit strategic with your mangement of the officers at your disposal. Anyhow. You are Jack Boyd, Freeburg's police chief and City hall plans to remove you at the end of tenure as the mayor plans to put his son in charge. You have a 100 days to get a retirement fund and bounce. How will you make it happen? It falls short on a few things such as it being a very very long game that could take up to 20 hours if not more but its filled with many suprising quests and other choices that do matter to the story. 7/10, Would play again if i had so much patience and time.
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Oct. 2024
This game really want me to dive into an atmosphere of Freeburg Like the idea, plot, gameplay. But can't believe that teenager could handle 3 woman cops with 300 points each :'
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Sept. 2024
This game is not a game it's an experience. It's like watching an indie film because it's not a film it's a concept you're watching. I highly recommend this if you want something to relax too.
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Frequently Asked Questions

This Is the Police is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

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

This Is the Police received 8,782 positive votes out of a total of 10,606 achieving a rating of 8.08.
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This Is the Police was developed by Weappy Studio and published by THQ Nordic.

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

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

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

This Is the Police is a single-player game.

This Is the Police does not currently offer any DLC.

This Is the Police does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

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This Is the Police is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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This Is the Police
14.99€
8.1
8,782
1,824
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Weappy Studio
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THQ Nordic
Release 02 Aug 2016
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