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Police Chief Simulator
Developer Perfect Circle Team S.A.
Welcome to Winston Springs, Officer! The local police station is in urgent need of a Chief of Police, and you’ve been chosen for the job! Handle incoming reports, renovate and expand the station, solve cases, and fight crime! From the Steam store page
317 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
64
Fresh
199 positive · 113 negative
95% range 58–69%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 199 | 113 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
322 of 457 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
65% recommend · 152 yes, 83 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 235 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (693 of 934 positive).
Many find the game lacks content and becomes repetitive after a few hours. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the game has potential but needs more polish and variety. [4][5][6]
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- [1]
This game is basically over after 7 hours and it is not a good look. There is exactly two types of criminals you encounter: People who try to steal gas and people who tag walls. All of them are of course clothed in full black because they are criminals. You then proceed to chase them with a gun to make them surrender and carry them to the station. That is the extent of the crimes... Of course there is also traffic …
- [6]
I actually like the idea behind Police Chief Simulator. The premise is interesting, the overall concept is something I wanted to enjoy, and there is definitely a decent game buried underneath it. Unfortunately, the further I got into it, the more it started to feel like a very shallow and unfinished experience. The biggest problem for me is that the game looks and feels cheap. The assets, animations and environments …
- [4]
It's okay while on sale, but at least at release, this game is a buggy mess. Optimization is bad at Tier 3 building and beyond, civilians stand in the middle of the road constantly, and that also holds up traffic, and all the while, there's virtually no agency given to the player to pursue criminals or issue tickets when they see infractions happen. The game has to 'spawn' the action, and tell you it happened, for …
- [13]
A super huge shoutout to the DEV. In about 1 week from launch he actively released 16 hotfixes, very reactive and willing to stamp out the bugs. This is not a launch and patch in 6 months AAA project. As for the game, I fully recommend it. The name says it. you are the manager and chief of a police station. Less patrolling (after a long tutorial like buildup) and more busy bee work, documents, employed cops, …
- [5]
Does exactly what it says it does. There are some bugs and some softlock risks but the devs have been working on patches. It's very well done other than needing some polish and some bug fixes, there is alot to do and most of it can be automated. The whole system is interesting because what can start out as a simple ticket for jaywalking can turn into a fake ID, with a knife and suddenly you're throwing a crazy lady …
Summarised from 30 of the 239 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Police Chief Simulator sits at 64% positive across 312 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
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60 of 317 · most liked firstThis game is basically over after 7 hours and it is not a good look. There is exactly two types of criminals you encounter: People who try to steal gas and people who tag walls. All of them are of course clothed in full black because they are criminals. You then proceed to chase them with a gun to make them surrender and carry them to the station. That is the extent of the crimes... Of course there is also traffic crimes, but it is very barebones. After you upgrade your station you basically…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devs, you seriously need to take another look at what Police Chief Simulator is supposed to be. I enjoyed the foundation you created with Car Dealer Simulator, but trying to connect and combine everything into the same universe and gameplay style is starting to take away from what made that foundation work in the first place. Police Chief Simulator should have its OWN identity. Right now, this doesn't make me feel like a Police Chief. It makes me feel like a beat cop, janitor, delivery…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's okay while on sale, but at least at release, this game is a buggy mess. Optimization is bad at Tier 3 building and beyond, civilians stand in the middle of the road constantly, and that also holds up traffic, and all the while, there's virtually no agency given to the player to pursue criminals or issue tickets when they see infractions happen. The game has to 'spawn' the action, and tell you it happened, for you to do anything. It's so far disappointing, as the potential is there. I'm…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is at more-or-less a middle of the road "may buy on sale" level of quality. It is not bad. It's just painfully ok. Things that it does good are either offset by lack of variety in those things, or them being just plain boring. Things it does badly are not offset by anything. “Good” things: Automating a police station is fine, until you realise that you automate 2 work stations and then being a busy boy running cases from a detective room to a briefing room. The briefing room is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You see the screenshots with people briefing, detectives solving cases, police officers talking with each other – fake, doesn't exist in this game. You see the trailer, with people arguing about a ticket, people getting arrested, animations, people arguing about getting arrested – fake, doesn't exist in this game. I do have a little bit of fun here, but it's all so shallow for a finished product. There is nothing here except for about 8 hours of grinding for money and reputation. Also, a lot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wait a while. It's a bit of a mess. It might turn out well, but it needs a little more time to cook, even for EA.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yep, here it is. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actually like the idea behind Police Chief Simulator. The premise is interesting, the overall concept is something I wanted to enjoy, and there is definitely a decent game buried underneath it. Unfortunately, the further I got into it, the more it started to feel like a very shallow and unfinished experience. The biggest problem for me is that the game looks and feels cheap. The assets, animations and environments don't have the quality you'd expect from a fully released game. The trailers…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Paid about 16 bucks for it, kinda had fun with it, yet negative This is far, FAR away from a finished product. A bunch of ideas loosely thrown together, nothing really feels right and most of it only works whenever it feels like it in the "late game" that being a couple of hours in. THIS should be Early Access (at best). That's what it's made for. Yet it is marketed as a full game. There is a horrible item duplication glitch either making you rich or being a nuisance. And either way the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game clearly takes a lot of inspiration from Gas Station Simulator and some other games such as 'This is the police' when it comes to dispatching officers through the briefing board. Initially, you'll be essentially a reception jockey-detective and/or a janitor for the station. Once you pass this stage, the game will slowly transition you into a patrol officer, where you patrol the streets, arrest criminals, etc. Once you pass this stage? That's where you start dispatching officers on the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The tragedy of small developers...you want to give them some slack, but at the same time you can't really have a standard and not hold them to it as well. Police Chief Simulator is strange because it's one of the first games for me that I want to recommend and not recommend at the same time. It's a middle of the road game. For now, the game needs another six months of development time to maybe hit a point where it's worth it, if they stick with it and fill out the rest of the punch card. If…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A super huge shoutout to the DEV. In about 1 week from launch he actively released 16 hotfixes, very reactive and willing to stamp out the bugs. This is not a launch and patch in 6 months AAA project. As for the game, I fully recommend it. The name says it. you are the manager and chief of a police station. Less patrolling (after a long tutorial like buildup) and more busy bee work, documents, employed cops, supplying the section with papers, weapons, handcuffs etc. You are a delivery boy with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 Fourth Amendment doesn't exist in this universe and you can just full body search random civilians and cite them for possession with no reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy mess. The devs have been prioritizing small little bugs while ignoring game breaking bugs, like half the users can't load a save game. Things I liked: Existing town from another game I play. Interesting idea Things I did not like: To escort criminals, you literally throw them over your shoulder and carry them. No way to tackle fleeing suspects, although you are much faster. You are required to shoot them in the back if they don't stop running. BUGS BUGS BUGS BUGS everywhere.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really can't recommend it's so buggy but that is not the only parts that makes me not say yes you hire officers and you can only send them out on case they don't go out and petrol the city like what this is a police game not a office game come Dev do better and don't get me started on how annoying the handcuffs are in this game and then you get the speed charger I do not need a charger to take the same time in real life to charge this is a game like for real and the whole having to order…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the definition of an aggressively okay game. Sort of fun for a time, but the same amount of lustre as a boot being polished with sandpaper. Had it been released in early access, I'd be more forgiving. But a supposed 1.0 title requiring 12 ((Edit: 26 in the 10 days since release) hotfixes? My city has a bug zoo that this game could supply for generations. Officers clip through the floors constantly and don't work at their assigned stations (the second officer at the registration desk…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games been out for 2 days and already 8 patches, Devs listen and stay Invested in the Game, and with the collab of Dealer Simulator this is awesome!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a solid police game and has made a promising beginning. Since it's just been released for one day, there’s a lot of room for growth, and it might become the top police game on Steam. The gameplay is quite distinct from what Patrol Officers provided. From what I’ve seen, some players have mentioned bugs in other parts of the game; however, it appears to be less glitchy than Patrol Officers. The primary distinction between this game and Patrol Officers lies in the player’s role. In Patrol…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →!!!!!!!!!!!!CARDBOARD GAME!!!!!!!!!!!! A cardboard game — they made it out of a gas‑station simulator, tried to combine everything together, and it turned into complete nonsense. The graphics… I’ll just stay silent, give me my money back, the game is trash! Maybe someone will like it, but such cardboard games aren’t worth 500 rubles — the developer got way too greedy. If you know how to make cardboard games, at least make something decent — even with graphics like this you can create a cool…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is full of bugs. It regularly crashes, locks up, and now, it won't load from the load screen. Avoid this at all costs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is overall kind of boring, you need to be able to hire more officers earlier in the game and eventually you just reach a point that your dispatching officers and waiting, it was an alright game but not overly worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game was okay at first, but once I reached the level 2 police station, I started running into constant game-breaking issues. I’m now regularly reloading my save just to fix problems. NPCs are getting stuck under the floor, handcuffs randomly disappear, and I currently have a deceased officer that I can’t remove or do anything with. If this continues, I’ll eventually have no staff left at all. Performance is also very poor. Even with the graphics settings reduced to low/medium, the frame…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I completed the game in 15 hours, which was kind of disappointing for the price. I was hoping for more content. I imagine the publisher will add more DLCs since the ending phone call implied there might be more to come. I did thoroughly enjoy the game. I didn't run into any of the bugs other people left in the comments. However, I was able to buy more throughput for electricity and lockers for employees, but wasn't able to install them, so that was kind of deceiving that I could even purchase…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, had alot of fun with it despite the bugs. But its a very short game, one or maybe 2 night, and everything is fully upgraded. I hope they will add alot more content, as it have a endless oputinity. Things i hope they will add: Swat team Training rooms Helicopter Double size City More upgrades for existing rooms. Own prison bus Room where criminals store their stuff while in cells. Maintenance garage for your car park. More people/citizen variety. More patrol cars types. More…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy and clunky. Some things go underexplained. Have to reload the save sometimes because soemthing won't work or load. Feels like it need a little bit more time in the oven.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I Have Been playing PC games over 30 years and I love both of your games. But if you are going to be one of the most trusted developers and publisher you must optimize your games to run smooth. the games is very good and would recommend it but to be perfect you must optimize the games, a lot of lag not game braking but annoying. if you do that. The developers will become one of the best simulator game developers. I Have added to my REVIEW. I fully recommend this game now developers are updating…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mixed on this, it has a lot of potential but a lot of frustration as well. Currently it feels more like Station Janitor/FIle Clerk/Parking Warden Simulator at times than Police Chief. It's quite fun doing chases (although criminals seem to mostly run around in circles), driving around, upgrading the station. It needs far more variety in types of crime and criminal actions need to be more realistic during chases. Automation needs to be better as files keep getting caught up and needing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played quite a few police simulator games and this one is probably close second favorite. For now it's lacking content, but as the game receives updates I expect it to improve. Since you have the whole station under your control, it gives you more options than standard police office simulator games. However, the game doesn't care too much about laws, you can do pretty much whatever you want and noone will care about it. Drive over a citizen? That's fine. Cause a crash going 150 kp/h in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think it's worth getting on sale. Not an amazing game, though. Decent graphics, it's neat that it shares a world with another simulator game, and it does have a satisfying gameplay loop. But all that satisfaction kind of goes out the window when you reach the end and you're left thinking "So this is it?" The final tutorial mission wants you to get to 10 reputation... and your reward is a phone call basically ending the tutorial. But at that point, you've unlocked everything and will be on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As this is a fully released game, and not some kind of early access, I'll treat it as a fully completed, finished product. I paid for it with real money, not monopoly money. No one has ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tested this "game", If anyone would, they wouldn't release it. The amount of bugs and NPCs (including our own employees) being stuck in some state is unbelivable. Just unlocked employees, hired two people, both of them got stuck on the same fence. So I destroyed the fence, hit them with my car, but they…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Does exactly what it says it does. There are some bugs and some softlock risks but the devs have been working on patches. It's very well done other than needing some polish and some bug fixes, there is alot to do and most of it can be automated. The whole system is interesting because what can start out as a simple ticket for jaywalking can turn into a fake ID, with a knife and suddenly you're throwing a crazy lady in your trunk to process and send her to prison lol. Fun and unique sim but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After the hype through Car Dealer Simulator I was properly excited for this game, but what a bloody disappointment it has been. The game is, for all intents and purposes, an unfinished product. Over the last two days I've had to start a new "save" 3 times because you simply can't reload a bloody save without crashing the game. That's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ elementary, Devs! And the bugs! OMG the BUGS! Officers getting stuck on furniture, casefiles floating around, I mean just look in the forum... I'm a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’m honestly torn on Police Chief Simulator. I’ve had it on my wishlist for a long time and was genuinely excited when it finally released. After about six hours of play, though, I’m finding the experience surprisingly shallow and, at times, outright boring. Maybe I’m still too early in the game, and if the mechanics expand meaningfully later on, I’ll update this review. But right now, the policing aspect feels extremely underdeveloped. As someone who spent a lot of time with Police Simulator:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UE5 LOW RES LOW FRAMERATE HIGH POWER NEED Game is okay, if you really really really love the genre try it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I could not recommend this game. Maybe if it did advertise it self as a EA that its clearly is I would but if this is the end product I would suggest you skip this one. The game is not fully implemented and repetitive in its only gameplay loop. It has descent optimization as I dont notice some lag on my nearly 6 travel laptop i use for gamming. The game also dont have checks to see if you ALREADY done something so if you do something before the quest triggers you got to spend money doing it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game should be in early access. There are clearly features that haven't been implemented yet and some that aren't implemented properly, and advertising this as a $20 full-release game is misleading. The "Varying cases to solve" are really just 2 cases you can take take action on yourself: graffiti and fuel theft. It gets very repetitive and once you get to the end of the tutorial quest and hit reputation level 10 you've unlocked everything there is to unlock and there's nothing left to do.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It seems like this game is more like a demo than a full game. It works Okay, but has issues. I've played this game for a few days now and it has random issues that come up. The detectives suddenly stopped doing work. They will pick up the reports and then take them into their office and just drop the files on the ground. Then they will go back and pick up another file and do it repeatedly. If you try to change whose in the detectives office the issue still exists. The amount of files the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very satisfying game, but if you don't mind the grind....and a whole lot of time to kill...then this game is for you!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is fun to play and has a lot of potential. I also like the collaboration between the devs and other games using the Winston Springs map. My only request would be that they take the collaboration to the next level, and make the town show your current state of progress in each related game. For example, if you've completely leveled up the car dealership in Car Dealer Simulator, it would be nice to see the fully upgraded building on the map when playing Police Chief Sim. It would greatly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →every time i save it will not load my save when i log back in
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is a buggy mess got potential but as usual with this type of dev never listen to the people and fix the major bugs just daily easy bugs, You can buy 30 cuffs and 1 hour later they are gone in to the either same looking crooks you carry them they cant even walk hardly anywhere you carry them like what are the devs inept. They just dont listen typical shovel ware. Just go and look at the screenshots you will see the great work of the devs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1. Throw someone you handcuffed at incoming traffic 2. Give ticket to the driver in car for hitting pedestrian 3. Repeat
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played the demo before and really enjoyed it, so I came back for the full game. I’m glad I did, it’s really fun and definitely worth playing
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game 9/10 - you learn new game mechanic as you progress through unlocking levels of upgrade Story 10/10 NPC 6/10 - NPC gets stuck on the floor or object like camera to capture inmates Character 4/10 - can't see your own legs simulation 8/10 - due to previous mentioned quarks I enjoyed it so far, by far the only simulation game that I didn't get bored easily to
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A buggy mess. The core gameplay looks really promising and its fun right up until the player hits a game breaking bug. This comes across as if it was not tested by any QAT team at all. For now i cannot recommend giving it a go until some more serious hot fixing / patching is done.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this was fun until you run out of things to do, which for me is day 12. no challenge apart from me trying to stay awake
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Poor game play. Lacks enough instructions in tutorials. I keep having to googlr how to do things. Glitches almost constantly. Slow level progression an monetary reward too low. Constant interruptions to quest with crimes being committed. Also, inventory is too limited and hired officers dont restock supplies. You end up cleaning and restocking all the time. Should be called Police Janitor Simulator not Police Chief Simulator
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is not a full release. It should be labeled as EA. I personally try to avoid EA games because I don't like constant updates. If I had known there would be daily updates I would have waited to buy it. I do appreciate the effort to continually improve the game, but at least be truthful and label it as EA. The gameplay is enjoyable for the most part, but until they finish the game I had to uninstall. In it's current unfinished state I can't recommend it. For those that enjoy daily…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has great potential. The developers are very active; there are daily updates, and if the community discovers bugs, a hotfix is guaranteed within a couple of days. I can’t wait to see what major updates are coming next. A big plus for the game, the developers, and their community. I have no cons to mention, given that the game is still in its early stages.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Does not work at all on Steam Deck, crashes almost instantly no matter what, dx12 and dx11 both do the same, changing compatibility tool does not fix this. You hit the press to enter and the game just instantly closes, dx11 the game freezes on the main menu within seconds.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved the demo and the demo worked on the steam deck but then I bought the game and it didn’t work on the steam deck I was really disappointed
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game could be good but it just doesn't seem complete.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sad state of a game. Tbh. it would be extremly nice if it got more content, because the ideas and the implementation of them are really good, but it is only nice for 10 minutes max. The "Paper's please" part is a really good mechanic but it's only present for the first 30 minutes, after that you never need to touch it again. The automation is nice until everything overflows and the end is just faxing everything over to get the money fast because after the detective work there isn't a good flow…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Early access game, sold as a finished product/game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had fun with this game ('had' being the operative word). It is short (14 hours on record and was stretching it) and there is no replayability. After reaching level 10 (reputation), there are no more upgrades and not much novel to do. And I've only had this game for 2 days. Why the Thumbs Up? Read the last section. Odd and questionable design choices. The town looks like a replica of a small American town somewhere in the Soviet Union, seemingly part of a social experiment. They also must've…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is excellent. The developers fix minor issues every day and add new features. Highly recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This thing is F'n stupid!!! Only works with a controller 5% of the time. The other 95% it either doesn't work, is keyboard only, half and half, or nothing works at all! F'n Devs need to fix this stupid sh_t! Then when you exit to the desktop, the F'n thing won't even shut the hell down! Don't buy this stupid F'n game, unless you want to deal with stupid F'n controls not working at all! Police Simulator may be wonky, but at least that game works. This thing is F'ed. I hate it so so so F'n…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →running alot smoother now well done devs. great game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Highly addictive. Devs are very quick to push bug fixes and communication on discord is amazing too! Great game, well worth the time and money. Cant wait for future plans and content to be released~ Thank you
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →13 hours from start to finish and what a ride. All achievements work, and were super straight forward to unlock. FPS drops hard around the station in the late end game, something I hope the DEV will tend to. And I have to praise the DEV because they are posting updates constantly, so they are 100% on it to make sure that this game is the best it can be. The funny thing is, I actually got the game because of a negative review. Someone said that this is just Gas Station Simulator but as…
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