Single-player games like This Is the Police
Below are 18 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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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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Blacksad: Under the Skin
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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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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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Blues and Bullets
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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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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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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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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ENDLESS™ Space 2
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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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.
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The Eternal Life of Goldman
Single-player alternative to This Is the Police — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.