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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 10,563 reviews of which 8,749 were positive and 1,814 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam with a 80% discount, but you can find it for 2.65€ on Instant Gaming.

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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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.

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.

Dec. 2024

TLDR: A pure management game where the entirety of its gameplay revolves around reading texts and deciding which and how many of your men to send. It isn't for everyone but if you enjoy trying to fix the unfixable, then it may be your cup of tea. Story: Meet Jack Boyd, the ever so charismatic Chief of Police who will retire in 180 days and would like to pocket half a million before he does. He's always been keeping his nose clean, but how crooked are you willing to become to achieve your goals? Whose side will you pick? Can you clean up the streets before you leave? Gameplay: It entirely revolves around clicking around the same map, everyday and... well that's it. Everytime. It would get boring extremely quick in most games, but the devs managed to add just enough different types of calls (you essentially act as the sole dispatch of your manpower to respond to various calls); bomb threaths, domestic abuse, prank calls, rape, informants, etc., so it's never a dull moment. Each calls have timers so you don't always need to send somebody right away and figuring out which call to ignore and which to prioritise is where the fun (or hell) really is. There are various upgrades available to you but budget increases, just like cuts, can happen depending on your choices, which themselves are sometimes hard to make as you are constantly stuck between a rock and a hard place. While there are a couple of mini games, they are out of place and not replayable, so while they caught me off guard, I think they just meant to pass a point across rather than change the pace. Your men, detectives and cops alike, each have a ranking, though no real stats to speak of. The game tries very hard to hide any kind of tangible information from you, so as to barely inform you of your actual chances and the of the consequences whenever you have to make a decision. This can irritate some, but if you learn to let go early enough, the game has a learning curve that isn't that steep once you get how it works. After every few days, a checkpoint happens and you can go back to that checkpoint should you get a gameover or realise you dug yourself too deep a grave. Graphics: I'm pretty sure I could do better with a pen and paper. However, strangely enough, it has a certain charm. Audio: I found the few sound effects and general ambience of the game spot on. Especially late game when the sh!t was hitting the fan (the tracks selection changes at every major turn in the game). While this is really not a title for everyone and does require a bit more brain power than most games out there... I found it original and its originality solely justified its price. Also, I hate to admit it, but yes, ''save scumming'' works. Stupid unreliable, alcoholic, absentee detective!!!

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 :'

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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