Games like Police Stories: The Academy
If Police Stories: The Academy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Police Stories, Police Stories 2 and Ripper — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Police Stories: The Academy: Welcome, trainee! Use tactics and special equipment to become a true cop in the free version of Police Stories: The Academy. Neutralize criminals, search for clues and find a "rat" in the police station alone or in co-op with a partner.
Players who liked Police Stories: The Academy also play
Steam players who put hours into Police Stories: The Academy 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.
Police Stories
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Police Stories: The Academy.
Top pick for Police Stories: The Academy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
A fresh take on top-down shooters with an emphasis on tactics that forces you to make split second decisions. Neutralize criminals, rescue civilians and defuse bombs in Single Player mode or Co-op. And remember - shooting first is not an option!
Police Stories 2
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Second-strongest match for Police Stories: The Academy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
Serve the law. Protect the innocent. Command the grittiest precinct in town in Police Stories 2 - a brutal tactical top-down shooter where arrest is the goal, force is the last resort, and every decision has an outcome.
Ripper
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Third-strongest match for Police Stories: The Academy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
Ripper is a top-down shooter with fully destructible environments, fog of war, and Steam multiplayer. Break through walls, survive enemy waves, and battle your friends.
Spacecraft Tactics
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Ranked #4 for Police Stories: The Academy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Police Stories: The Academy.
Spacecraft Tactics is a 2D turn-based tactical space game. Save the last rebel outpost in the campaign. Develop a strategy, execute it in tactical battles and micromanage your ship. Play various game modes single or multiplayer. Create your own ships, scenes or mods and share them.
Hot Brass
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Shares a tense mood with Police Stories: The Academy.
Ranked #5 for Police Stories: The Academy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
As an elite SWAT operator, think fast and put your tactics to the test to master a series of missions and save lives. Summon your team of up to four players in online and local co-op, or hone your skills solo. Don’t just be the best—be the best of the best.
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
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Shares a contemplative mood with Police Stories: The Academy.
Ranked #6 for Police Stories: The Academy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".
Thunder Tier One
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Shares a challenging mood with Police Stories: The Academy.
Ranked #7 for Police Stories: The Academy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Police Stories: The Academy.
Thunder Tier One is a realistic top-down shooter where you join an elite special operations team tasked with stopping a dangerous terrorist organization wreaking havoc across the fictional Eastern European country of Salobia.
Intravenous 3
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Ranked #8 for Police Stories: The Academy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
Tense stealth action, tactical hardcore gunplay, and missions & story shaped by the way you play. Step into the roles of Steve and Sean, outnumbered and forced to survive a relentless manhunt.
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Voidtrain
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Police Stories: The Academy.
Another title from HypeTrain Digital, the studio behind Police Stories: The Academy. Shares Action and Indie with Police Stories: The Academy.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Police Stories
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Police Stories: The Academy.
Another title from HypeTrain Digital, the studio behind Police Stories: The Academy. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
A fresh take on top-down shooters with an emphasis on tactics that forces you to make split second decisions. Neutralize criminals, rescue civilians and defuse bombs in Single Player mode or Co-op. And remember - shooting first is not an option!
Police Stories 2
WHY THIS
Another title from HypeTrain Digital, the studio behind Police Stories: The Academy. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories: The Academy.
Serve the law. Protect the innocent. Command the grittiest precinct in town in Police Stories 2 - a brutal tactical top-down shooter where arrest is the goal, force is the last resort, and every decision has an outcome.
Frequently asked about Police Stories: The Academy
- Is Police Stories: The Academy free to play?
- Yes — Police Stories: The Academy is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Police Stories: The Academy have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Police Stories: The Academy supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Police Stories: The Academy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Police Stories: The Academy are Police Stories, Police Stories 2, Ripper.
- Who developed Police Stories: The Academy?
- Police Stories: The Academy was developed by HypeTrain Digital.
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 Police Stories: The Academy.
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