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Games like Jurisdiction

If Jurisdiction is your kind of game, the closest matches are Retailer Tycoon, Glory to the Robots! and Cocaine Dealer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and stressful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Jurisdiction: Take control of a metropolitan police department and run it your way. Recruit, train, and equip officers, then send them to the streets to fight crime and keep peace in the city of Freemont.

2021StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDWindowsby Meteor Shock
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Build your police department from scratchClash with street gangs and organized crimeCustomize officer policies and equipmentChallengingContemplativeStressful

Players who liked Jurisdiction also play

Steam players who put hours into Jurisdiction also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Retailer Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Jurisdiction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Retailer Tycoon is a base building, retail empire game. This game allows you to create any kind of retail shop you can think of. This RTS game allows you to make billions of in game money from your store. Create endless possibilities of stores and create that chain all though Sydney Australia.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Glory to the Robots!

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Jurisdiction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    A game in the genre of management strategy. Here you can build your own factory for the production of robots, and on another planet, and extract resources and test robots on other different planets.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Cocaine Dealer

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Jurisdiction.

    Third-strongest match for Jurisdiction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    A clicker/management drug dealing simulator. Get your product cut and wrapped quickly and out on the streets. Build your crew, expand your operation, and climb the supply chain. Stay ahead of the cops, keep your crew in line, or pay the price.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. E-Shop Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Jurisdiction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Embark on an e-commerce startup journey in E-Shop Tycoon! Optimize warehouse logistics, hire and train staff, and design unique office spaces as your business grows. Handle industry events and marketing crises. Come grow your startup into an e-commerce giant!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Post-Apo Builder

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Jurisdiction.

    Ranked #5 for Jurisdiction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurisdiction.

    Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

    2025StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dummynation

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Jurisdiction.

    Ranked #6 for Jurisdiction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Basement

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Jurisdiction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Mech Engineer

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Jurisdiction.

    Ranked #8 for Jurisdiction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Jurisdiction

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Police Tactics: Imperio

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Jurisdiction.

    Reviewers of Jurisdiction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurisdiction.

    In POLICE TACTICS: IMPERIO you start your career as an aspiring police chief in Newport Falls, a city that is dirty and corrupt to its core. You are responsible for upholding law and order. Coordinate the emergency vehicles and personnel of the municipal precinct and put a stop to crime.

    2016StrategySimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. 911 Operator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Jurisdiction.

    Reviewers of Jurisdiction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Answer incoming calls and react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / police / ambulances, or sometimes - just ignore the call. Play on ANY CITY in the world!

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. 112 Operator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Jurisdiction.

    Reviewers of Jurisdiction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Manage emergency services in any city in the world! Take calls and dispatch rescue forces. Handle difficult situations, now depending on the weather, and traffic. Help the citizens through cataclysms and natural disasters, becoming a better emergency number operator every day!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. EMERGENCY

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Jurisdiction.

    Reviewers of Jurisdiction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Jurisdiction.

    Save lives – be a hero! Join forces against the chaos in the newest title of the award-winning EMERGENCY series. Take up your shift as incident commander and coordinate with other players to fight fires, arrest gangsters and rescue injured civilians. Your city needs you!

    2023ActionStrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Jurisdiction at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Jurisdiction on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Jurisdiction.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Jurisdiction on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Jurisdiction on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Jurisdiction on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jurisdiction.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Jurisdiction on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Jurisdiction on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Jurisdiction.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Jurisdiction on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Jurisdiction.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Jurisdiction on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jurisdiction.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Jurisdiction.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  7. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Jurisdiction.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jurisdiction.

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Jurisdiction

How much does Jurisdiction cost?
Jurisdiction is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Jurisdiction?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Jurisdiction are Retailer Tycoon, Glory to the Robots!, Cocaine Dealer.
Who developed Jurisdiction?
Jurisdiction was developed by Meteor Shock.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Jurisdiction.

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