Single-player games like This Is the Police
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to This Is the Police, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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This Is the Police 2
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Beat Cop
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police.
A retro, pixel art style adventure in New York, inspired by ’80s cop shows. You are Jack Kelly and you’ve been framed for murder. Now as a regular beat cop you have to find out, who did that. Expect thick crime story, a lot of black humour and all the other things you can find on the streets of Brooklyn.
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Beholder
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
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Interrogation: You will be deceived
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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The Detail
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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911 Operator
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
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!
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The Banner Saga
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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Satellite Reign
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Hard West
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
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SteamWorld Heist
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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MASSIVE CHALICE
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
MASSIVE CHALICE is a tactical strategy game set on an epic timeline from Double Fine Productions. As the Immortal Ruler of the nation, you'll take command of its heroes, forge heroic marriages to strengthen your Bloodlines, and battle a mysterious enemy known as the Cadence in a 300 year war.
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Frozen Synapse
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
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Rebel Cops
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.