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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 10,652 reviews of which 8,820 were positive and 1,832 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.63€ on Gamivo.

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

Strategy Management Story Rich Crime Choices Matter Singleplayer Indie Simulation Detective Noir Atmospheric Adventure Great Soundtrack Political Villain Protagonist Visual Novel Kickstarter Memes

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System requirements

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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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Feb. 2026

Hate group is on the rise. City Hall does not want the people to disrespect the police. Ask you to fire all black personnel. Rich Chinese is coming to town. City Hall wants to do business with him. Ask you to have at least 3 asian police officers working at the time he visits. Feminist movement does a peace march for women's rights. City Hall ask you to go with the full personnel and SWAT team to suppress it while a massive fire and terrorist attack break out at the same time. 10/10 most realistic police simulation I have ever seen.

Jan. 2026

A good game with a great soundtrack. However, it is too long by nearly half. As typical for strategy games, it introduces you to new mechanics, gradually increasing difficulty. But by the 2nd or 3rd hour you've seen everything the game has and the only reason to keep playing is the story. The story itself is good with strong voice acting; but this is a game where they needed to trim the fat.

Jan. 2026

I loved the new game Dispatch, which is very clearly inspired by this game. "This is the police" is much darker though, about corrupt police officers in some 1990s american minor city. You get to choose the morals of the chief of police - but playing this virtuously is definitely HARD mode. It's a noir, corrupt world. Expect to dispatch police officers to deal with racist attacks, to arrest and harass feminist protesters, to get an order to fire all your black police officers from the very corrupt mayor. What will you choose to do? if you liked Breaking Bad and Sopranos you might like this!

June 2025

Love the concept of the game, the art style and voice acting. Gameplay becomes a tad too tedious later on, and I think the outcome of the calls you choose to handle becomes too random for my liking. I once sent my best officers out with the swat to handle a shootout. Three of them died. I reloaded and sent out the same people when the event replayed, and this time no one died. Hmm...not a fan of this type of randomness. I'll give it a soft recommendation, get it when it's on a sale.

June 2025

I was hoping to listen to Sweet Ginger Green for the entire game. But sadly, they took away the cassette player...

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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 8,820 positive votes out of a total of 10,652 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.

This Is the Police supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

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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