This Is the Police
Fair · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 19.9h
- Value
- $0.75/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Geforce 7800, AMD HD 4600, Intel HD3000 or similiar, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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?
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in March 2019. It has been discounted 75 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Back to the Dawn ($23.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats This Is the Police 2 ($14.99, scores 45).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 578 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
55 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
After all these years, I finally played the first This Is the Police from beginning to its canonical ending. I absolutely loved it. Honestly, I'd love to see this game adapted into a TV series someday...
I had a police officer named Burey, on the first service day he was buried. TITP is among the stars of its genre, up there with LA Noire and Mafia 2 even though it's a strategy police management game, It's a love between jazz and police / detective work, interesting story line of the city's chief police jack. Along with thrilling plot twist of events and decisions you have to make everyday, it's addicting this one...
Listen it's a great game, the storytelling is immersive and the animations are cool. But so slow that you will be bored halfway down the game. And when you finally push yourself to finish it like I just did, the ending is absolute ♥♥♥♥. All in all, I would recommend playing the game. Just be warned hahaha
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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This Is the Police scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/443810/this-is-the-policeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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