Contraband Police
BANGER · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $11.39.
- Length
- 12h
- Value
- $0.95/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or AMD RX 560 (3GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better), 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.39. That was September 2026. 37 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. The nearest things to it, Prison Simulator ($19.99, scores 56) and Arma Reforger ($39.99, scores 55), are both worse buys on this math.
The math says it holds its tier up to $15.38, and you are being asked for $11.39.
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 34 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,176 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
At 12 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
71% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
350 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 09:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A fun and unique simulation game with satisfying inspections, contraband hunting, and plenty of tasks to keep you busy. Overall, a solid game that I'd recommend.
The game gets better the more you play it. The best part comes near the end, when muscle memory finally kicks in and vehicle inspection and driving common routes become second nature.
Really fun until the stupid rng achivements come into play and you need to basically just pray you get the right type of smuggler and car!!!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Contraband Police scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/756800/contraband-policeReviews 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 17, price as of Oct 1.
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