This Is the Police 2

HandyGames

About this game

🏔️ Interpret the law as you see fit in This Is the Police 2, set in a cold and harsh border town where no one is completely innocent. Make tough decisions, manage your sheriff's department, and try to keep out of prison yourself in this acclaimed story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat! ⛓️

🕵️‍♂️ DIVE INTO A GRITTY, STORY-DRIVEN EXPERIENCE
Smugglers, gangs, and screaming populists call Sharpwood their home. As young sheriff Lilly Reed, you must team up with fugitive criminal Jack Boyd. Navigate a mature, branching narrative where every choice has harsh consequences. Maintain order, and pray your dangerous plan doesn’t spiral out of control.

🚔 TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR DEPARTMENT
Your subordinates aren’t just resources—they are living people with their own strengths, weaknesses, fears, and prejudices. Balance a cop who drinks too much with one who refuses to follow orders. You’ll have to show a steady hand and adapt to their personalities if you want to impose discipline and survive.

🎯 ENGAGE IN TACTICAL COMBAT
When operations get dangerous, gather your finest cops and switch to tense, turn-based combat. Carefully study the terrain, approach suspects stealthily, and use non-lethal equipment if the situation allows. Beware: there are no hit points here. A single bullet can cost a cop their life, meaning every tactical move matters.

🔎 BECOME A TRUE DETECTIVE
Collect evidence, study case materials, connect the dots, and interrogate suspects to send criminals to court. And if the suspect was innocent? Perhaps it's time to find out if any Sharpwood judges can be bought.

KEY FEATURES:
Deep Management: Balance the daily lives, flaws, and schedules of a unique roster of cops.
Tactical Combat: Command your squad in high-stakes, turn-based shootouts.
Investigative Detective Work: Gather clues and interrogate suspects to solve crimes.
Rich Noir Narrative: Experience a dark, atmospheric story where your morality is tested.
Premium Experience: Play entirely without ads and enjoy full tablet support!

Supported languages: EN, ZH-CN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ES

Thank you for playing ‘THIS IS THE POLICE 2’!

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Ratings and reviews

Loved the first one, love this one. However, the high star requirements and spamming of calls make the game a lot more difficult as it progresses. More importantly, after Dec 23 and all of the cutscenes that come with it, the game gets stuck on the loading screen with the blue and green lights rather than the next day starting. I cannot advance in the game. EDIT: Changing my review to five stars! I informed the creators of this matter and within two days I am back to playing without problems!

The 12 year olds in these reviews couldn't wait 8min of an opening cutscene. The intro isn't that long and once you get beyond it the game is 80% gameplay with some normal length cutscenes between days. The gameplay is also quite extensive for a mobile game. The narrative style is very comic book and that's fine it works cleanly with the narrative tone. Don't be fooled by the troll reviews, this is game is very well made if you don't have the attention span of a Golden Retriever.

I'm just going to cut right to the chase here - just like TITP1, the voice acting in this game is not its strong suit. Unfortunately the first, oh, 45 minutes is story with one or two tutorial-style minigames thrown in. It honestly makes opening the app again a difficult choice even though I'm at the actual gameplay section now.

What’s new

Fixed problem that the game doesn't start with Turkish system settings.