Adventure · July 31, 2018

This Is the Police 2 (2018)

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Interpret the law as you see fit in This Is the Police 2, sequel to the acclaimed noir drama This Is the Police! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, investigate, interrogate, and incarcerate. Make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself! – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat. Is it a simulation? A management game? A tactical challenge? A visual novel? A puzzle? It’s all of these, and more! Dive into one-of-a-kind -story driven experience. Welcome to Sharpwood, a cold and harsh border town riven with violence, where no one is completely innocent. Smugglers, gangs, and screaming populists call this town their home. To maintain peace and order, the young sheriff Lilly Reed (Sarah Hamilton, The Longest Journey) will have to team up with fugitive criminal Jack Boyd (Jon St. John, Duke Nukem), and pray that her dangerous plan doesn’t spiral out of control. Take charge of the Sheriff’s department. Your subordinates aren’t just some resource; they are living people with their own strengths, weaknesses, fears and prejudices – and you'll have to reckon with all of them in order to survive. Is one of your guys drinking too much alcohol? Or always coming up with excuses for not coming to work? Or does he refuse to follow orders? You’ll have to show a steady hand if you want to impose discipline on this department. Engage in tactical combat. During your most dangerous operations, the game will switch to turn-based combat. Gather a team of your finest cops (or use your drunk and stupid bums – you don’t always have the luxury of being choosy!). Carefully study the terrain, adapt your plans, stealthily approach your suspects and use non-lethal weapons and equipment – if the situation allows. True, sometimes gunfights are almost impossible to avoid, but be careful: This Is the Police 2 doesn’t have hit points. A single bullet can cost a cop their life. Become a true detective. Collect evidence, study case materials, interrogate suspects (or use more... forceful methods) and send the criminals to court. And if the suspect was innocent? Perhaps it's time to find out if any Sharpwood judges can be bought.

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73 Adventure titles launched in 2018 — top 6 by review volume.

Peer Adventure titles

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Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume6.2k Steam reviewsTop 38% in Adventure
Positive rating76% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 89%
Metacritic66/100Genre average 77 — top 90% of Adventure titles
Engagement hours14 h averageTop 25% for session depth among Adventure

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Strategy · 110
  • Story Rich · 75
  • Turn-Based · 66
  • Singleplayer · 65
  • Management · 60
  • Indie · 52
  • Adventure · 47
  • Villain Protagonist · 47
  • Choices Matter · 43
  • Crime · 42
  • Atmospheric · 30
  • Simulation · 25
  • Great Soundtrack · 23
  • Turn-Based Tactics · 17
  • Detective · 15

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Russian
  • Italian
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Portuguese - Brazil

Reception Metrics

Steam community

76%Mostly Positive · 6.2k reviews

4.7k positive · 1.5k negative

Metacritic

66/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

6.6/10

Curator recommendations

5.1k

Press Quotes

“This is the Police 2 is a great sequel to such an underrated hidden gem from 2016. The developers have taken what they learnt from the original game and improved on everything from the story to the core gameplay mechanics.” 9.2/10 – GamePitt “A veritable Matryoshka doll of dark delights, executed to perfection. The turn based combat completely engrosses and could have been a game on its own, but Weappy went the extra mile: they delivered one of the darkest,…

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

14h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

7h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

0h

Current engagement

Achievements

12

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateJul 31, 2018
DeveloperWeappy Studio
PublisherTHQ Nordic
Base price$3.74 -75%
Required age17+
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksMetacritic page · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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