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You'll take the role of police chief and dive into a story of crime and intrigue
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? Features: ✔ Your mission is clear: make $500,000 in 180 days before Jack Boyd reaches retirement. How? That’s up to you! ✔ Decisions, decisions! This Is the Police is all about a dark story and how you react to it. Whatever you decide, your choices will influence the game – and the fate of Jack Boyd. ✔ The Good, the Bad, and... the Ugly? The Chief of Freeburg's Police Department deals with all kind of people. It is up to you to find the bad guys and decide how to deal with them. ✔ Carry out your duties. As head of Freeburg PD, Jack deals with all sorts of challenges every day: responding to emergencies, managing his officers, defending the department against City Hall and a corrupt mayor, and much more. ✔ Solve Investigations and gather evidence against the criminal gangs of Freeburg. ✔ Deal with the competing powers of the city. Everyone offers you favors, and each one comes at a price. ✔ Rich and fully voiced story: Jack Boyd is portrayed by Jon St. John, the voice of Duke Nukem. © 2026 THQ Nordic Mobile
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- Pick3pro · v1.1.4
I was expecting this to be a casual build your character game but it's surprisingly (in a good way) plot heavy. The story is great and the gameplay even better. I have been playing for hours each time and had to force myself to stop because my eyes became tired. Still, I wish I could access the tutorial again instead of it just showing up once and then gone. Also would be nice if you can save multiple gameplay.
- Hadran 13 · v1.1.3.8
great mind game for the smart
- Shouvik Bhattacharjee · v1.1.3.8
good game asf
- Daniels Butkus · v1.1.3.8
It's different in a good way. I like the time seting, no major gaming breaking bugs and overall an amazing story would recommend plus the magement aspect is fun.
- Eugen-Mario · v1.1.3.8
reverse-GTA
- Max Schilld
The keeps crashing and I have to restart the whole game this has happened several times now really annoying
- Anwar Chaudhry
Its very similar to the game Dispatch. Its a good game. The studio behind it definitely prioritizes quality and creativity even if its not mainstream
- Grubhub H8ter · v1.1.4
Please ignore all the Karen's. Thank you so much for making this game. Great story awesome gameplay.
- Jackster1800 · v1.1.4
Bought the game because it is a grate game to play. Downfall is that when you buy the iPad/iOS version of it, you don’t get the MacOS version.
- lawranger · v1.1.4
very fun and well done game. purchased on sale for $2. no adds, no regrets.
- Russ K · v1.1.3.8
worst 😭
- Mahesh Kumar
The app stops making sounds! When I temporarily switch from the game to check a message or do something else, all sounds completely disappears until I restart the game. Also, when I turn on my headphones via Bluetooth, the sound disappears too—it's very frustrating.
- Dastan Kuramyssov · v1.1.3.8
Can't install it on Google Play Games Beta.
- あshaL · v1.1.3.7
Perfect game design, story, style, and voice acting. The game is art. Well done!
- George Arso
Game presents itself as a narrative with choices that will affect the story but at the end of the day it's just the same forced narrative and 'choices' just change a line or two of dialogue
- Zack Strait
good game
- Phat Nguyen
have to play the 2nd one it won't let me advance
- Walton Gragg
This game is sooooo boring. Definitely not worth $11.
- Megan Grove · v1.1.3.7
I love this 🎮 Game
- Caden Roden · v1.1.3.7
A game which fails to properly convey its awesomeness. Apart from the gameplay, where the knowledge of many hidden mechanics determine your level of enjoyment, the story, art, music, and voice acting feel great. Also, as the game autosaves at the start of the day, there's no way to go back to a previous day. Only option is to restart the game. To new players: I urge you to read and watch guides to better understand the many unexplained features. It will transform your whole experience.
- Shreyas Shriwastav · v1.1.3.7
I've played it multiple times over the years and love it. feels like the story really slows down days 85-100 but I'm still loving it.
- Samuel Nelson · v1.1.3.7
A game where you read a lot but the fonts are so tiny on phone with out the option to make it larger, I love this kind of game when done right, this one is garbage despite its potential, because adult will love this but cant read the tiny font size so its a total garbage, sorry for being honest but the font size needs to be adjustable
- Zer O Juan · v1.1.3.7
The game's audio cuts out whenever you unfocus the game. The only workaround that I've found is the restart the app entirely.
- Thomas faucette boyd · v1.1.3.7
good
- James · v1.1.3.7
Police dispatch game with some dark lore about corruption, mafia, violence of all kind, etc. Loved this game.
- Robert Kitovas (RobiePAX)
I love this game! It has a great story...
- Lucky Juniachi · v1.1.3.7
The team made a game and made it compatible for a mobile technically. But when I play it on my latest android, the texts are too small I could barely read. Liked the game, but it's unplayable since it's not optimised
- paul joshy · v1.1.3.7
Way longer than I was anticipating with a mostly gripping story, that gets better as it goes along, and some interesting characters and awesome music! Gameplay is enjoyable but tedious at times, although it does occasionally throw a few neat wrinkles in. I do understand where people are coming from with their complaints about the game’s rather cold depiction of racism, but I think they were most likely trying to reflect or satirize reality in the game. And you can definitely ignore the mayors directives with no penalty at all if you do your job well. Now, I’m on to the sequel! Thanks for making such a quality game here devs!
- Lazy wolf smh · v1.1.4
Just a fantastic game, i played this and the second this is the police and i have to say that the second game is better, because in my opinion the game just flows faster and you don't have to play so many days in game, but really worth play this two games because in the two of them the imersive story is just incredible.
- Pedro Arthur
Game breaking bug! At some point it prompts you to press AFFAIRS which opens up a menu that is unclickable. It greys out the entire app and won't let you select anything!
- alex sandoval · v1.1.3.7
Good
- Darani G · v1.1.3.7
Unnecessarily vulgar. Why use so much profanity?
- Jackie Bluebell
200 policemen five bottles of milk fried chicken sandwiches
- KC H
Great potential, but it's the same stuff over and over again, give a free play with more things to do with money, maybe purchase of equipment, vehicles or tech to help officers. Would be nice to team up officers, expand the city (district) hire more police etc.
- Xpl0ration · v1.1.3.7
Good . Not much but not boring
- Partha Deka
The tutorial is too slow. Work shifts should've been explained before hiring. I was left not know what to do about police on a shift I hadn't worked with. I stopped playing at that point. Gaps in learning doesn't make for fun gameplay. Developers need to bring back game manuals.
- Phineas Baritone
OMG! I bought this game and have only stopped playing it because my brain was begging for a break!! It challenging and intriguing and exciting and emersive. Plus it's very very well put together! If I could give this game a MILLION STARS then maybe you'd understand until till then BUY IT!!!!!!!
- Tiffany Ramirez · v1.1.3.7
I've tried to get into this, but for a mobile game its just too slow. When I play on mobile it's because I want a 5 minute quick blast. The slow voice acting is quite annoying. Yes I could skip the scenes but they have key gameplay information so you feel forced to watch them. The gameplay itself is good and interesting, and keeps you on your toes.
- Andreas Killi · v1.1.3.7
nice
- irsyadipa · v1.1.3.7
No Mobile Nonsence
- Michael · v1.1.3.3
Boring af
- Yash Vishwakarma · v1.1.3.7
Love this game, bought all the console versions, then apparently I loved it so much I bought a duplicate of every one on my phone, if the creators of this game can see this, I hope you know that this is officially my favorite game and I hope you will seriously consider making another sequel as it is getting a lot of recognition, my God the artwork alone is absolutely stunning...
- DogGod 613 · v1.1.3.7
It’s a great story and everything but things get really hard on you. Constant budget cuts lead to the department getting smaller which actually hurts it more than helps it.
- Flinch 009 · v1.0.1
Not interesting I want my Money back!!!!
- Rezwan Rashid
Nice
- Sridhar palivela · v1.1.3.7
Excellent mobile game. The story was intriguing, the gameplay polished, and especially the voice acting was really high quality. I loved the main character. Thank you.
- Sindre Lind-Åkerblom · v1.1.3.7
I don't see a game, no purpose, just chores
- Stephen Koeleman
Was fun although I don't like that u get the bad ending regardless or the bad ending +1 dollar but hey dats just me
- pybrothepyro tf · v1.1.3.6
Unless you have perfect eyesight, don't play this game. I've never seen writing so small in the thousands of games I've played over the years. When I get my glasses in 3 weeks I will come back and play. Note to devs; increase the writing.
- Kevin · v1.1.3.7
Played this for a couple of days. Got mixed feelings. Overall, it is great but it is flawed in some ways: 1. It forces you to be corrupt, so you don't have control over the narrative as you would think 2. The situation with the City Hall doesnt make sense. The more civilians hurt your budget gets cut and officers get fired. Thus, there is more crime in the city and more civilians gets hurt which leads to further budget cuts. If this was real, city hall would give more funds not less.
- Alexandros Zenonos · v1.1.3.7
Keeps hanging where I have to hire the cop, or ditactive at day 3.
- Ali · v1.1.3.7
I'm so happy this comes to mobile phone that I can play it on my phone while lying down 👍 I used to play this on playstation and pc. Really love to play this over and over again. The second one is not that enjoyable for me but it's not bad. I hope they make the 3rd one!
- Riris Mathilda · v1.1.3.7
Truly enthralling game. The story is sophisticated, and the gameplay is polished.
- Beth
Despite the ridiculously stupid storyline and the worst written dialog ever, I absolutely love this game. I've been playing for years from way back on my PS4. It's about decision making and prioritizing, or plain old doing the best with what you've got. Some of the crimes you respond to are downright hysterical (must have been a different writer). Since it's a decision based game there is a replay ability. Very addictive fun.
- Kelly McLean · v1.1.3.7
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Story, The Game Play Alright.
- Druettus Edward T. · v1.1.3.7
Will prolly play this on my XBox instead. Seems interesting, and fonts in cutscenes are readable, but once in game, fonts are way too small to be easily readable on my phone. 🤔
- Steven Milligan
I'm loving the Max Payne style of storytelling, but there are issues. First and most annoying one is a sound glitch. When connected to a bluetooth headset, the game loses sounds when screen goes black, which happen very often since you watch the game more than you play it. Fix this asap developers! Second thing is language. Hire a professional writer to fix that.
- Rees Gargi · v1.1.3.7
Not a fan of it but cool.
- Aqasha
Add cloud save please
- Foxfiles · v1.0.1
I really loved this game on ps4, but it has no sound, no music, no sound effects, I would like to get this fixed, so I can enjoy the game as its best
- Hylesdiego · v1.0.1
The sandbox needs to be updated and made more easier in the starting days to be honest.
- Edanator01 · v1.0.1
Love this game! Super fun management
- Persona iTunes · v1.0.1
Story sim game that lets you choose. I don’t typically stay on one game for too long but I play this quite often.
- theBackground. · v1.0.1
Simply put perfect
- Eminence75 · v1.0.1
It’s a interesting game . Well thought out , good story , intriguing on multiple levels but it’s darn hard . It’s too challenging I think . You have to balance the near impossible . Changing rosters , meeting needs of your cops, city hall, prosecutors office, the mob, etc. it feels like no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try and balance so that no one is tooo unhappy, you still end up with no staff , little income , and bigger demands. I’m on a second play through and it’s going a little better , but my last play through was Brutal. Either the prosecutors office screws you over by taking all your paychecks and cutting your workforce in half , or city hall does. Then the serial killer comes around and you have 4 cops per shift and a couple detectives . Not enough to investigate the crimes . Game over. And not enough cops to stop crime . This play through I have done better , but only by placating the city hall’s ridiculous demands . And limiting how often I piss the mob off. O and you also can’t hardly do that and not have the labor Union lambosting you for firing employees for no good reason . Now blaming city hall for that during press conferences helps. I don’t see how I am going to have 500 Million bucks to beat the game , when I only have like 30000 right now . I’ll never beat the game . Also I don’t really enjoy the investigations very much . They are tedious the deeper you get in the game , if you even have the detectives left to investigate to begin with . It’s a grind guys, and the game has zero moral redeeming values. No heroes . Its dark , and hard.
- Matteus46 · v1.0.1
It would be one thing if you gave a choice in how to respond. But the moment the game told me I had to fire everyone all black employees I was out.
- tiedyedowl · v1.0.1
This port is terrible.
- Spacebartender · v1.0.1
I don’t care what anyone says, I understand about it being a straight and narrow storyline but this game mentions a FEW different times about blacks. Firing all blacks, “black gangster” etc. I was willing to ignore the first comment and charge it to the storyline but I agree with the person who mentioned it as “racially insensitive”. Now, on the positive side, this game is fun to play, it has great developments, graphics, and does have a good storyline. The only thing I wasn’t too big of a fan about was the comments made about blacks. I said what I said bc if they mentioned your race throughout the entire storyline as gangsters and in derogatory ways as such, you will feel a bit offended too.
- Donna Fenomenale ! · v1.0.1
Officer hiring/firing
- manfromlamanza · v1.0.1
I play the Game and while it was fun and all my phone died and then all my progress hours of game just went to zero 😭😭
- hooooooooollllloooo · v1.0.1
I’m using chinese. Too small!!
- key814 · v1.0.1
I have the game on PC, but never finished it, so I decided to buy the mobile version so I could play it. It’s a great game! Additionally, ignore the “racially insensitive” reviews as this game is designed to make you face moral choices. If you are highly sensitive to and cannot appreciate social commentary, you may want to avoid this game.
- mitch0310 · v1.0.1
I can’t play this game due to frequent inappropriate handling of race and racial issues. I was told to “fire all black employees” from the police department. I was tipped off by a mobster that “some black gangster” was robbing him. Neither was appropriate. Look, this is a game about the police. This is a topic that in the USA carries a heavy history of racial tension. I’m not going to enjoy playing a police chief in racially insensitive game.
- LiveFromNYC11211 · v1.0.1
I was a little scared to get it after seeing all the bad comments but it worked just fine for me. Fun game.
- Topher Lilly · v1.0.1
Yay
- Assawrd · v1.0.1
IT WILL NOT DOWNLOAD
- kraqb · v1.0
I purchased both This Is the Police and This Is the Police 2 and they were some of the greatest games I've ever played. I wanted to revisit the game on my phone, but once purchased it won't download. Yes, I have WiFi and the newest iOS version but it still won't download. TL;DR: Buy it on Steam, not the App Store (also I recommend the sequel more)
- BensGraphics (Verified) · v1.0
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