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Police Chief Simulator is a single player casual management game. It was developed by Perfect Circle Team S.A. and was released on September 17, 2026. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Immerse yourself as a young Chief of Police and take charge of a County Police Station. Your mission? Clear Winston Springs from the criminal influence that started in the City. Your role? Help Winston Springs County Police Station "build back better" and swing the odds in the favour of the law! Register crimes, expand cases, hunt criminals - and bring justice back to the County! Build up the Poli…

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73%Audience ScoreBased on 227 reviews
gameplay15 positive mentions
optimization13 negative mentions

  • Fun and engaging gameplay with enjoyable management and simulation mechanics involving running a police station and patrolling the town.
  • Developers are very active with frequent hotfixes and updates, showing dedication to improving the game and adding content.
  • Shared universe and map integration with other games like Car Dealer Simulator adds immersive continuity and unique appeal.
  • The game is plagued with numerous bugs including crashes on load, stuck NPCs, disappearing or duplicating items, and issues with saving/loading progress.
  • Severe performance problems occur especially at higher station levels and interiors, causing low and unstable framerates, making the game often unplayable.
  • Lack of depth and variety in police work and cases leads to repetitive and shallow gameplay after initial hours, with minimal meaningful automation and poor AI behavior.
  • gameplay

    44 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    34% positive mentions, 59% neutral mentions, 7% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a fun and promising foundation with clear tutorials and a smooth core loop, though many find it shallow, repetitive, and bug-ridden early on. Frequent developer updates and bug fixes improve the experience, but mechanics—especially investigations—often lack depth and polish, leaving room for enhanced complexity and immersion. Overall, with continued refinement and added content, the game has strong potential to become much more engaging.

    • “It is a fun game with interesting mechanics that I can't wait to see built upon.”
    • “The gameplay is enjoyable, activities are well thought out and don't feel overwhelming or unnecessarily complicated; it's a really nice game for those autumn evenings.”
    • “The overall gameplay loop itself is so much fun to me.”
    • “Even with the graphics settings reduced to low/medium, the frame rate is still terrible, so the game feels badly optimized on top of the gameplay bugs.”
    • “Second, the game mechanics around solving a case is simply guessing and trial and error.”
    • “Game mechanics feel bad and make no sense specifically with solving cases.”
  • optimization

    34 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    18% positive mentions, 44% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The game suffers from significant optimization issues, with performance drastically declining after early upgrades and in larger police stations, causing lag, stuttering, and frequent frame drops even on low settings. While some users report improvement efforts and occasional smoother gameplay, many find the poor optimization frustrating enough to render the game nearly unplayable until further fixes are implemented.

    • “The game really needs better optimization, especially for the armory and larger police stations.”
    • “The bigger and more upgraded my police station became, the worse the performance got.”
    • “You guys have been pushing out so many bug fixes improving the gameplay and optimization so well. Never saw a company with so many bug fixes to start.”
    • “At this point, the combination of broken progression, constant reloading, and poor performance is making the game frustrating to play, and I no longer feel it is in a playable enough state to continue.”
    • “The added sound bugs, broken audio constantly, and the just piss-poor optimization are what makes this game utterly terrible.”
    • “I've tried setting literally all of the graphics settings to the lowest setting, as well as turning off anything that can affect performance, then dropping from 4k resolution down to 1080p on the lowest settings, and I still sit around 50 fps, with drops to 30.”
  • stability

    26 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from frequent bugs, including glitches with items, stuck or disappearing workers, and severe performance drops, especially after upgrades. While some players note regular updates and improvements from developers, the overall stability remains problematic, causing frustration and occasionally making the game unplayable. Despite its potential and enjoyable core gameplay, stability issues significantly hinder the experience.

    • “After upgrading station to max (only left for me is kitchen and power last upgrade, and those don't impact anything), FPS on station drops drastically, even when you clean up duplicates in armory room. Glitches include item duplicates like rabbits, workers glitching or throwing cases everywhere, squads disappearing.”
    • “The officer on reception keeps getting stuck between the default cabinet where they put case files and the sofa, which means no income unless you do it yourself. This defeats the purpose of investing into police workers when they get bugged and stuck. Additionally, police cars get stuck on patrol responding to cases when officers get involved in crashes, and you can't get the car back, losing your investment completely. The game can be laggy, using a lot of GPU and CPU just walking around and driving. Floating case files in the air. Very unhappy customer whose experience was ruined by bugs in an otherwise fun game.”
    • “This game is very enjoyable but there are still a few bugs even after the latest update. For example, when given the quest to buy a gun, bullets, and handcuffs, I can't load the gun properly. Using the reload button sometimes throws the gun away, and sometimes I can't pick it back up without restarting the game. Also, workers do not shred rejected documents or fax them off, forcing constant manual intervention. This should not happen if bugs were resolved.”
  • story

    18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    17% positive mentions, 66% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions

    The story receives mixed feedback: some players appreciate its concept and look forward to its expansion, while others find the storyline basic, rigid, and occasionally marred by bugs and inconsistent mission design. There is a desire for more varied missions and deeper emotional or managerial consequences.

    • “Very good story and love this game. Cannot wait to see it continue to grow. Love that it's the car dealer map as well.”
    • “Story 10/10.”
    • “So far so good... looking forward to all the updates and continuation of story/etc...”
    • “The AI is very basic, and so is the storyline.”
    • “You must follow the story exactly, no doing things ahead of time or they don't count; you have to do them in the exact order.”
    • “Missions are not set up correctly; there were multiple times where I had to do something and then I was asked to 'build'/unlock the thing that allows me to do it as a next mission.”
  • graphics

    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    45% positive mentions, 28% neutral mentions, 27% negative mentions

    The graphics are generally praised for their quality and design, with some appreciating the immersive world-building. However, performance issues such as severe lag, jittery visuals, and low frame rates persist even on low settings, indicating poor optimization that hampers the overall experience.

    • “First of all, the graphics are pretty good and optimized, just like car dealers simulation. In fact, it's so fun that both games take place in the same world and hood. It's like the developers are building a world, not only games.”
    • “Great graphics and exciting gameplay make you hooked for more.”
    • “I was skeptical at first but this is actually really fun, and I found myself enjoying the game. Graphics are great and I like the fact anything can happen anytime.”
    • “Even with the graphics settings reduced to low/medium, the frame rate is still terrible, so the game feels badly optimized on top of the gameplay bugs.”
    • “I like the game, I really do, but the lag is insane. Dear developers, please fix this performance issue. Being in the city makes me want to puke from how laggy it is. The station also is a laggy slop. I never had these performance issues in the demo. I lowered the overall graphics to low and somehow still get the same lag. If the devs don't fix this performance issue soon, then don't waste your money on this game, it's unplayable.”
    • “I've tried setting literally all of the graphics settings to the lowest setting, as well as turning off anything that can affect performance, then dropping from 4k resolution down to 1080p on the lowest settings, and I still sit around 50 fps, with drops to 30.”
  • grinding

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 14% neutral mentions, 86% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is generally manageable and enjoyable, though some find it repetitive and tedious after extended play, particularly when pursuing money and reputation. The pace is fair, but the loop could benefit from automation or improved efficiency to reduce monotony.

    • “Once the novelty wears off, you're largely left grinding through repetitive jobs for money and reputation.”
    • “There is nothing here except for about 8 hours of grinding for money and reputation.”
    • “I've gotten all of the upgrades (in give or take 8.5 hours, excluding time lost to reloads for bugs) and am now grinding through the last quest, and it feels like 'that's it?'.”
  • music

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    20% positive mentions, 20% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The music in the game receives mixed feedback, with some players finding the soundtrack unpleasant and opting to turn it off. Additionally, there are sound-related bugs and a lack of NPC voice acting, leading to an eerie and somewhat empty audio experience when music is disabled.

    • “Apart from a very big and annoying bug, there seemed to be no sound after I turned the music down, and the audio files would glitch through boxes—random bugs like that.”
    • “NPCs don’t speak, and if you turn off the music, the world becomes eerily silent aside from ambient noise.”
    • “So far having fun with it, but the soundtrack is horrible.”
  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users find the humor in the game largely comes from its numerous funny bugs, providing unintended comedic moments. However, this humor is somewhat overshadowed by poor gameplay optimization.

  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game offers limited emotional impact, as losing officers during missions does not result in meaningful emotional or managerial consequences.

  • monetization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users express initial skepticism toward the game's monetization due to the developer's previous focus on unnecessary updates over fixing existing bugs in a prior title, raising concerns about potential aggressive or unfocused monetization practices.

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Play Times

8h Median play time
10h Average play time
5-17h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 5 analyzed playthroughs
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Police Chief Simulator is a casual management game. Common tags for Police Chief Simulator include first-person, politics, indie, life sim, relaxing and others.

Police Chief Simulator is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 10 hours playing Police Chief Simulator.

Police Chief Simulator was released on September 17, 2026.

Police Chief Simulator was developed by Perfect Circle Team S.A..

Police Chief Simulator has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Police Chief Simulator for its gameplay but disliked it for its optimization.

Police Chief Simulator is a single player game.

Similar games include Police Chief Simulator: Prologue - Early Days, Police Simulator, The Guild - Europa 1410, Rafting Factory, Night Market Simulator and others.