This Is the Police
November 24, 2025
More About This Is the Police
- 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.
Supported languages: EN, ZH-CN, FR, DE, JA, PT, RU, ES
© HandyGames 2019
Latest Version
1.1.3.8
November 24, 2025
HandyGames
Simulation
Android
456,918
$7.99
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User Reviews
Cheryl Montgomery
2 years ago
Excellent game in terms of graphics and gameplay. Several of the missions are emphatically bigoted and kinda awkward, though. Like the ones where you have to fire all your black employees because the racists demand it. It's just bizarre and feels out of place in an otherwise great game. This is also a game where you can have your own police force murdered on the job... but at least that's not mandatory, unlike some of these missions. Anyway, it's a fun strategy game otherwise.
A Google user
6 years ago
Do NOT listen to the reviews complaining about mechanics, pace or writing. This game is deliberate with its intent and is well worth the install. Only played it once it was on play pass but if I had paid full price I would not be disappointed. What appears to be simplistic game play turns into choices that can get incredibly hard. Sometimes there's no good answer and only choices. This game relays the monotony of the job of police chief and its twists and turns will leave you agasp.
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4 years ago
I'm already astonished the game has voice acting considering most mobile games don't. The backstory of the game was well done along with the realism part of the game. The length of the game really makes you feel like you're getting a lot for 7.99. This is an overall very good game and I highly recommend people to play the game themselves.
Dylan Stefiuk
1 year ago
No problems running the game at all on an old Galaxy S8. Lots of value for $1.44, definitely the way the game was meant to be played. 4/5 - Would be 5/5 if it had any sort of replability but the events and calls are all the same, a true one and done game unless you miss the goal and get the bad ending.
Travis Finx
2 years ago
Good dialogue, compelling story with plenty of options to make it playable. Slightly stressful the first time around, and I would recommend it if you enjoy the style of Tactical gameplay. Yes you are going to be stressed the first go round, try it again and it works out pretty good
Gaurav Kumar
2 years ago
Really great game. I have noticed a bug, though. While investigating "destruction of property" case, where church and halment guy is present,even after the correct sequence no action is being taken. And the screen just remains there. The solution just doesn't work
Jesse Hernandez
4 years ago
I like the mechanics, and the sim is fun, it makes you compromise in interesting ways. I don't give it 5 stars because of the way the cutscenes are done. It looks like a lot of time and care went into them, but they're way too long, if you're skipping forward there's no intuitive way to go back if you missed something, and there's no summary at the end which really sucks when you need to make a choice based on that info. Maybe I'm not the target audience.
A Google user
6 years ago
The game concept and story line are good. I just went thru the first day because the font on the police character cards is so small. It would be nice if you could select a policeman and have the card enlarge. I can't even make out the experience number at the top of the character cards. 90% of the font is too small.
Zer O Juan
5 months ago
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
A Google user
5 years ago
This game is great. I've only played half of it so far and it's got me sucked in. But as with every game there are a few flaws. I find the audio gets a bit bugged after I start using bluetooth earbuds. Not when im using the earbuds, but after I take them out and want to use the phone speakers. Also the text is a little small for me to read, I play on a Galaxy note 10 plus. But other than that, it's been a joy. Can't wait to play the second one once I'm done with this one.
A Google user
6 years ago
It's an okay game with your typical antihero, film noir plot. Basic points: 1) it drains battery badly for an app without major graphics. 2) fun at the start but I found myself trying dragging on to get to day 180. 3) I'd like to see my final stats. 4) not a big fan of picking music every day (you can skip choosing but it's in your face). 5) plot ending is understandable although some people may be turned off by it. Overall ok but not worth $10, maybe wait for a sale.
João Mauro
4 years ago
This is a good game, though one (of sadly, many) that was originally made for PC and didn't get enough compression and optimization for Android. And as such the Play Pass access to it just convinced me to get the PC version instead. I don't think a modern phone like the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9s is supposed to heat up with a game like this, plus some text fields are hard to read unless I almost touch the phone with my nose.
Kaden Simard
2 years ago
The gameplay is super fun and addictive. Some shifts are uneventful, whilst others feel like the town's falling apart and you just can't keep up. I always tell myself just one more shift. I find the story can drag out from time to time but it's still super awesome so much effort was put into the backstory. Losing a cop in this game can be heartbreaking and it's part of the reason the games so great. Recently started playing the second one on PC and it's just as good, if not better.
A Google user
6 years ago
Had the PC version, liked the game. But it's a big shocker when i saw the price on mobile and the mobile phone interface sucked, my finger is too fat and the interface is too small. It's simply a game where the game just got slapped into the mobile phone without thinking about it's interfaces. However still recommend. Good game nonetheless.
Shreyas Shriwastav
5 months ago
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.
Dastan Kuramyssov
1 month ago
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.
A Google user
6 years ago
When it first tells you it's going to be 180 days of gameplay, you think itll pass by SUPER fast. Wrong! Surprisingly long game, in the good way. Amazing. Simply amazing. Not at all what I expected, and much better than I assumed itd be. I really hope they make more games like this. Pro tip, don't let your drunk cops drive anywhere, unless you dislike them 😉
A Google user
6 years ago
I've put a handful of hours into this game and it's great! It's fundamentally a resource management game using police and detectives. I can't give it 5 stars, though, because if I didn't have a Galaxy Note phone with a stylus, this would be frustrating to play on a phone - recommend you only play on a tablet or with a stylus. The developer has done a great job otherwise but should adjust the sizing of the interface elements to improve mobile usability. Also - THANK YOU for the lack of IAP!
Ryan Luu
2 years ago
Game is really fun and always finds a way for me to keep playing. The story I find interesting and not too overly complicated. What is complicated are the investigations and how you can get stuck at some parts of the game and need to restart the week to get back on track. I really don't like how hard the game is sometimes and how much time it takes to complete the story including the many retries I've had to do.
Andrew Caver
1 year ago
Love the gameplay, the setting, the music and art style. Two VERY big issues I've run into, however, are 1. The game uploads saves extremely infrequently, so I lost 30 days of progress when I had to get a new phone. And 2. The game WILL NOT STAY RUNNING. Do not put your phone to sleep, don't go send a text message, don't do anything else or the game will relaunch when you open it back up, losing any progress you made on your current day. Devs had no idea what they're doing with the mobile port.
