Games like This Is the Police 2
If This Is the Police 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are This Is the Police, Rebel Cops and Gangster Empire: Vendetta — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cinematic presentation enhances immersion, random events create replayability and cinematic. 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 2 is a story-driven strategy title developed by Weappy Studio and published by THQ Nordic, released in 2018 at $14.99. The gameplay combines police department management with turn-based tactical missions, incorporating systems for tracking corruption and maintaining officer loyalty. Random events influence outcomes throughout, and players report that the officer management feels reactive and punishing. Reviewers highlight that the narrative delivers a bleak character study of a morally compromised protagonist, with the presentation described as cinematic and the overall atmosphere as dark and grim. The management decisions create tension as players balance competing priorities. The game holds a 63% positive rating from 1,360 Steam reviews, runs verified on Steam Deck, and offers a medium-length challenging experience for solo players.
About This Is the Police 2: 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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This Is the Police
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Shares random events and a grim mood with This Is the Police 2.
Top pick for This Is the Police 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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?
Rebel Cops
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with This Is the Police 2.
Second-strongest match for This Is the Police 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with This Is the Police 2.
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.
Gangster Empire: Vendetta
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for This Is the Police 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with This Is the Police 2.
Ever secretly wanted to run your own Mafia organization, playing the role of a ruthless mob leader? Now you can with Gangster Empire: Vendetta!
Company of Crime
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Shares a dark mood with This Is the Police 2.
Ranked #4 for This Is the Police 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
Company of Crime places you in the heart of 1960s London. Will you build an influential criminal empire, or head up an elite Scotland Yard task force and crack down on the rising tide of corruption? Case out targets, then dive into the melee with your hand-picked team of gangsters or detectives.
The Deed II
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Shares a tense mood with This Is the Police 2.
Ranked #5 for This Is the Police 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police 2.
Can you commit the perfect murder? Outside a brothel in 1930s Paris, a man recognises one of the orderlies who had cruelly abused him while he was in a mental asylum. Some deeds cannot be forgiven ...
Attack of the Earthlings
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with This Is the Police 2.
Ranked #6 for This Is the Police 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.
Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for This Is the Police 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
Interrogation: You will be deceived
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with This Is the Police 2.
Ranked #8 for This Is the Police 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Reviewers of This Is the Police 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with This Is the Police 2.
Reviewers of This Is the Police 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with This Is the Police 2.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
This Is the Police
WHY THIS
Shares random events and a grim mood with This Is the Police 2.
Reviewers of This Is the Police 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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?
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with This Is the Police 2.
Reviewers of This Is the Police 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police 2.
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
Rebel Cops
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with This Is the Police 2.
Reviewers of This Is the Police 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with This Is the Police 2.
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.
Dispatch
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with This Is the Police 2.
Reviewers of This Is the Police 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below This Is the Police 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under This Is the Police 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police 2.
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
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Priced ~50% under This Is the Police 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with This Is the Police 2.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under This Is the Police 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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 2.
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 2.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Is the Police 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police 2.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Is the Police 2.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police 2.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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
WHY THIS
Shares random events and a grim mood with This Is the Police 2.
Another title from Weappy Studio, the studio behind This Is the Police 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Is the Police 2.
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?
Rebel Cops
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with This Is the Police 2.
Another title from Weappy Studio, the studio behind This Is the Police 2. Shares Strategy with This Is the Police 2.
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 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Is the Police 2.
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.
Frequently asked about This Is the Police 2
- Is This Is the Police 2 verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — This Is the Police 2 is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does This Is the Police 2 cost?
- This Is the Police 2 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 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside This Is the Police 2 are This Is the Police, Rebel Cops, Gangster Empire: Vendetta.
- Who developed This Is the Police 2?
- This Is the Police 2 was developed by Weappy Studio and published by THQ Nordic.
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