This Is the Police 2

Weappy Studio's 2018 follow-up moves the franchise from a corrupt city desk to Sharpwood, an isolated frozen town where a new sheriff rations manpower, triages daily calls, and weighs every morally grey decision against a cast of officers who can quit, die, or turn. The defining change is combat: hostage situations and armed raids now play out as grid-based, turn-based tactical missions, with officers moved and positioned like an XCOM squad rather than dispatched from a top-down map.

That addition is exactly where opinion splits. The management core and the grim, character-driven storytelling remain the game's strongest pull, but critics and players repeatedly flag the tactical layer as awkwardly bolted on, its combat slow and often dull beside the sharper decision-making around it. The result suits players invested in bleak precinct drama and willing to tolerate uneven pacing; anyone drawn purely by the promise of tight tactics will find the weaker half of the design.