The Precinct
Fair · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.2h
- Value
- $2.46/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660Ti / AMD Radeon R7 370, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Averno City, 1983. Gangs rule the streets and your father lies restless in his grave. Clean up the city, uncover the truth, and embark on thrilling vehicle chases through destructible environments in this neon-noir action sandbox police game.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $20.09, set in August 2026. 14 discounts in the 17 months on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Thief Simulator 2 ($4.19, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Crash Time 2 ($4.99, scores 4).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 798 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
At 12.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
94% start to 3% 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
202 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 20:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game honestly gives me GTA 1 vibes, and I mean that in a good way. The graphics look great, the gameplay is really fun, and TBH, this is exactly the kind of police game I've been waiting for. I wanted a police simulator that actually felt like a game instead of just doing the same boring tasks over and over, and The Precinct does a really good job of making it fun. The story is also pretty good. I just wish the...
The game is awesome and definitely has some really neat systems going for it, however it feels weird not to have an option for co-op as it the game feels like it could really benefit from it. I wish my AI partner could instead just be a friend and we work together to tackle crime in the city.
Easily my fav game. Its everything you wanted to be able to do in LA TRUE CRIME. one of the few games that really needs DLC content to add more stuff to do. I don't really like how the types of crimes you have to pick one there are lot's of other random crimes that occur, im just not a huge fan of how they did it. Needs mods badly.
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Cite this score
The Precinct scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/490110/the-precinctReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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