Games Like This Is the Police

This Is the Police

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?

★ DEATH TRICK: DOUBLE BLIND ★ PHOENIX WRIGHT: ACE ATTORNEY TRILOGY ★ TANGLE TOWER ★ 恒水中学连环虐杀 / THE UNTOLD STORY OF HENGSHUI SCHOOL ★ AVIARY ATTORNEY ★ AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES ★ STAFFER CASE: A SUPERNATURAL MYSTERY ADVENTURE ★ FLY CORP ★ (THE) GNORP APOLOGUE ★ MAD GAMES TYCOON 2 ★ FOOTBALL, TACTICS & GLORY ★ NEWS TOWER ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Death Trick: Double Blind

88% 👍 OF 284
About This Game

The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.

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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

98% 👍 OF 45K
About This Game

Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …interrogate a parrot as a courtroom witness.
  • …use a magic lock-and-key mechanic to confront someone's hidden secret and force the truth out before you ever reach court.
  • …defend a client while everyone in court is openly hostile, and still win by proving a murder case in just three days.
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Tangle Tower

95% 👍 OF 6.9K
About This Game

Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …investigate a murder where the only "weapon" is a knife painted into the victim's unfinished portrait.
  • …show every piece of evidence to every suspect, then cross-check their reactions until their stories start contradicting each other.
  • …build a "this is suspicious because…" sentence, and make the detectives voice whatever weird combination of words you assemble.
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恒水中学连环虐杀 / The untold story of hengshui school

86% 👍 OF 534
About This Game

It’s based on Hengshui high school to reveal the real society, Game feature: cult painting style, puzzle elements, serious student death event plus humorous minor role, As it was released on March,2015, and finished in the following four months, now it’s downloaded almost 0.9 million players, the live video of the game has 2.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate School Deaths
  • …Question Witnesses
  • …Find Hidden Clues
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Aviary Attorney

95% 👍 OF 2.3K
About This Game

The hottest bird lawyering game to come out of 1840s France! Join Jayjay Falcon and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, as the two take on clients, interview witnesses, collect evidence, and deliver justice to the guilty.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …break into a place to steal a key clue, then discover you can't submit it in court because you got it illegally.
  • …knock on Notre-Dame's doors and loot the Louvre while investigating crimes as a bird lawyer in 1848 Paris.
  • …lose a trial and keep going, with that failure shaping the branching story instead of triggering a game over.
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AI: The Somnium Files

92% 👍 OF 9.4K
About This Game

Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Search Crime Scenes
  • …Enter Witnesses' Dreams
  • …Solve Timed Dream Puzzles
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Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure

94% 👍 OF 4.3K
About This Game

Staffer Case is a new sort of mystery game, asking players to find clues, arrange them into documents, and point out the contradictions between them to solve a series of murders. Each mystery unraveled leads you closer to the truth lying at the heart of each case!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Solve Supernatural Murders
  • …Link Clue Excerpts
  • …Expose Case Contradictions
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Fly Corp

85% 👍 OF 3.4K
About This Game

Develop your own transport network in different regions and cities: open new routes, buy and upgrade new planes, and increase airport capacity!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Connecting Hubs
  • …Prevent Airport Overloads
  • …Race to Unlock Territories
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(the) Gnorp Apologue

95% 👍 OF 10.0K
About This Game

(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …start by punching a rock, then escalate to arrows, rifles, napalm, robots, lasers, and nukes.
  • …snowball from a few shards into untold millions of shards flying around the screen as your operation scales up.
  • …unlock a speedrun mode after finishing, then replay the whole incremental loop as a timed challenge.
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Mad Games Tycoon 2

94% 👍 OF 7.8K
About This Game

Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …design, manufacture, and revise your own console line, then drive sales with exclusives, warranties, and Slim/Pro upgrades.
  • …buy rival studios and force them to make only games for your console, or grind out a single franchise forever.
  • …play up to four-player business warfare: trade tech, send funds, team up, or sabotage each other while racing the charts.
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Football, Tactics & Glory

87% 👍 OF 4.4K
About This Game

XCOM meets Football Manager. Develop your club, earn experience in turn-based matches, learn new skills, achieve new classes, upgrade your facilities, buy and sell footballers, grow your youth academy, make difficult choices. It's a deep strategy game that respects your time.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Counter Opposing Formations
  • …Develop Youth Prospects
  • …Train Player Specialties
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News Tower

94% 👍 OF 4.6K
About This Game

Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …tailor the same paper to different NYC neighborhoods, because each borough has totally different reader tastes.
  • …take shady deals from the mayor, mafia, military, or high society, then deal with lawsuits, mobs, or baseball-bat "courtesy visits" if you anger them.
  • …hold finished stories for next week, then drop them together to stack combo bonuses.