This Is the Police

Name: This Is the Police
Price: 1.99 USD
Rating: 4.3 (70 reviews)
Author: HandyGames

By: HandyGames

Crime, Mafia, Gambling, Law

Features & Capabilities

Dive into a noir narrative as Police Chief Jack Boyd in Freeburg. Manage officers, respond to emergencies, and investigate crimes while the mafia pulls strings and City Hall plays politics.

Your choices shape the outcome as you pursue a retirement goal of $500,000 in 180 days. The game features branching scenarios and fully voiced scenes starring Jon St. John as Jack Boyd.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Games Entertainment Writing

By:

HandyGames

Rating:

4.30

(70) 1 new ratings

Version:

1.1.4 Last updated: 2025-01-31

Version code:

830879200

Creation date:

2018-12-12

Compatible devices:

Size:

2.01GB

Price:

1.99

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-07

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 175,907 ▲ 2,032

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Developed by:

HandyGames

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/this-is-the-police/id1435461053

Website:

https://handy-games.com/

User Reviews

Reviews praise This Is the Police for a gripping, choice-driven story and deep management gameplay, offering a lengthy, replayable experience. However, recurring concerns include racially insensitive content, punishing difficulty, and mobile-port issues such as audio bugs and download problems. Despite flaws, fans of narrative-driven sims consider it a solid, ambitious title.

Pros

Gripping, well-written story with meaningful player choices.
Deep, engaging management/simulation gameplay that requires balancing cops, the city, and the mob.
Lengthy, absorbing experience with replay value and potential for a sequel.
Overall quality and appeal to fans of story-driven sims.

Cons

Racially insensitive content and prompts (e.g., firing all Black employees) that appear across multiple reviews.
Extremely hard/difficult and often unbalanced gameplay that can feel punishing.
Mobile port quality issues, including missing audio/music and download/install problems.

Recent reviews

Please ignore all the Karen's. Thank you so much for making this game. Great story awesome gameplay.

by Ja*****, 2026-03-10

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.

by la*****, 2025-12-03

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!