Games like This Is the Police
If This Is the Police is your kind of game, the closest matches are This Is the Police 2, Interrogation: You will be deceived and L.A. Noire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and grim. 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 →This Is the Police is a strategy and adventure game released in 2016 by Weappy Studio, available for $14.99 USD and playable on Steam Deck. Set in a city descending into chaos, players take on the role of Police Chief Jack Boyd, navigating a narrative-driven experience where resource management and faction politics shape the story's outcome. The game features character-stat-progression, a morality system, and branching narrative paths influenced by random events and player choices. Reviewers and players highlight its atmospheric and tense tone, describing how choices can spiral into unintended consequences within a noir setting. The game incorporates elements of dark humor amid its grim scenarios, with deep character writing underpinning the bureaucratic absurdity of running a police department. The title holds a 74% positive rating from over 2,800 Steam reviews.
About This Is the Police: This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?
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This Is the Police 2
WHY THIS
Shares random events and a grim mood with This Is the Police.
Top pick for This Is the Police fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.
Interrogation: You will be deceived
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Second-strongest match for This Is the Police fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?
L.A. Noire
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Third-strongest match for This Is the Police fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with This Is the Police.
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Ranked #4 for This Is the Police fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Blacksad: Under the Skin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Ranked #5 for This Is the Police fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with This Is the Police.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
The Detail
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Ranked #6 for This Is the Police fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police.
The Detail, a crime noir adventure in a modern American city. This is a city where cases matter, clearance rates matter, and on a good day even justice matters.
The Wolf Among Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Ranked #7 for This Is the Police fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with This Is the Police.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Blues and Bullets
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Ranked #8 for This Is the Police fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with This Is the Police.
Blues and Bullets is a dark and violent crime thriller. Set in an alternative Eliot Ness & Al Capone story, Blues and Bullets blends a stunning script with detective work to deliver an amazing interactive experience.
Reviewers mention these as similar to This Is the Police
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The Banner Saga
WHY THIS
Shares narrative branching and an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Reviewers of This Is the Police cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Invisible, Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Reviewers of This Is the Police cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Reviewers of This Is the Police cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with This Is the Police.
Reviewers of This Is the Police cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Satellite Reign
WHY THIS
Reviewers of This Is the Police cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.
Hard West
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Reviewers of This Is the Police cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
SteamWorld Heist
WHY THIS
Reviewers of This Is the Police cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with This Is the Police.
Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!
ENDLESS™ Space 2
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Reviewers of This Is the Police cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with This Is the Police.
ENDLESS™ Space 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS™ Universe. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below This Is the Police at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under This Is the Police on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Is the Police.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under This Is the Police on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Is the Police.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under This Is the Police on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under This Is the Police on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with This Is the Police.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under This Is the Police on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under This Is the Police on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under This Is the Police on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under This Is the Police on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Is the Police.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Is the Police.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with This Is the Police.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Is the Police.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Is the Police.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Is the Police.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Weappy Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Weappy Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
This Is the Police 2
WHY THIS
Shares random events and a grim mood with This Is the Police.
Another title from Weappy Studio, the studio behind This Is the Police. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.
Rebel Cops
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with This Is the Police.
Another title from Weappy Studio, the studio behind This Is the Police. Shares Strategy with This Is the Police.
Lead a ragtag squad of cops in rebellion against their town's new criminal power and see how long you can hold out in this unforgiving turn-based spin-off game from This Is the Police. You'll be desperately short on supplies, and a single shot can cost a cop their life.
The Eternal Life of Goldman
WHY THIS
Another title from Weappy Studio, the studio behind This Is the Police. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police.
In this breathtaking platformer adventure, explore a vast hand-drawn Archipelago, inspired by ancient fables and depicted in classic frame-by-frame animation, and defeat a mysterious Deity.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
This Is the Police 2
WHY THIS
Shares random events and a grim mood with This Is the Police.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Blacksad: Under the Skin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with This Is the Police.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with This Is the Police.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
Frequently asked about This Is the Police
- Does This Is the Police run on Steam Deck?
- This Is the Police is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does This Is the Police cost?
- This Is the Police is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to This Is the Police?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside This Is the Police are This Is the Police 2, Interrogation: You will be deceived, L.A. Noire.
- Who developed This Is the Police?
- This Is the Police was developed by Weappy Studio and published by THQ Nordic.
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