Police Simulator: Patrol Officers
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $5.99.
- Length
- 14.4h
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 33% over the last 30 days against 75% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (2 GB VRAM) or higher, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Welcome to Brighton! Join the police force of this fictitious American city and experience the day to day life of a police officer.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was September 2026. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 39 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $5.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 31. With it, 40.
Value puts it in the top 30 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Ultimate Fishing Simulator® ($19.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm ($24.99, scores 34).
Players rate it 75 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 33 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 22 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 573 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 1,154 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 14.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
98% 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
318 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
1) Make laggy and broken game 2) Make game even more laggy 3) Hide half the content behind a paywall 4) Ditch the game This is exactly what this game did and is typical astragon behaviour, make a ♥♥♥, laggy game, don't fix it and then abandon it
Do not buy this sh*t. The game is ugly, full of bugs, would be better optimised with code written with my a*s. There is texture bugs everywhere, the driving is so bad you can't speed up and omg everything is so slooow. Instead of fixing the game they sell new DLCs more buggy than ever and now they just say "hey we added missing voicelines and it's our last update because you understand it's too hard to maintain...
There are numerous bugs and technical issues that can seriously affect the gameplay and overall experience. What makes it even worse is that the developers seem to have stopped supporting the game.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Police Simulator: Patrol Officers scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/997010/police-simulator-patrol-officersThe 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 15, price as of Sep 24.
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