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2016PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable83 % positive14.99 €

As aging police chief Jack Boyd, you dispatch officers, manage staff, and make morally murky choices while scraping together retirement money over 180 days. A grim noir tale of corruption and guilt told in a stylish silhouette art style.

  • Choices with consequences
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Tactical depth

The closest matches for This Is the Police are Through the Darkest of Times, Beholder and The Westport Independent. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes This Is the Police special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Through the Darkest of Times

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2020PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable84 % positive14.99 €

  • Choices with consequences
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

You lead a resistance group in Nazi-era Berlin from 1933 to 1945, managing resources, members and missions. Every hard moral decision plays out in a haunting, expressionist-styled historical drama.

Beholder

Choices with consequences

As a state-appointed apartment manager in a totalitarian regime, you spy on tenants and make morally heavy decisions. Time, money and conscience are all scarce, and your choices lead to many different endings.

The Westport Independent

Choices with consequences

As editor of a newspaper under an authoritarian regime, you decide each week which stories run, balancing government pressure, readers and your conscience. A short, oppressive censorship management game with multiple endings.

Sultan's Game

Choices with consequences

As a minister serving a cruel sultan, you survive a deadly game of power through card-driven mechanics, resource management and grim moral choices, inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. Every decision carries consequences.

We. The Revolution

Choices with consequences

You play a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris during the French Revolution, weighing evidence, balancing factions and trying to avoid the guillotine yourself. Interrogations, clues and morally heavy verdicts drive a tense, comic-styled courtroom drama.

The Pale Beyond

Choices with consequences

You become the reluctant leader of a polar expedition trapped in the ice, juggling scarce supplies and crew morale while making tough calls. A narrative-driven survival adventure with a historical Antarctic setting.

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