Beat Cop

Never figured I would have this much fun, but I do. By day 10 I actually know the street that is "my beat" to patrol, Know the major factions, know who belongs to which crew by looks, know when there is something suspicious happening behind closed doors and beating every ticket and towing quota. Funny thing is I start to care more about the characters of these pixel citizens more than the whole crew of Starfield, and that is immersion in old fashioned pixel graphics and text bubble dialogues. This is the feeling that is missing from a lot of cop games. I hope to see more from the same developer crew.

The graphics are cool pixelated art, 5/5 in that regard. The gameplay is repetitive but OKish, it would greatly benefit from more game mechanics, but it is obviously influenced by good games like Papers Please, 3/5. The story/dialogue is, oh my God how should I put this, just utterly and plain HORRIBLE and NOT 80's in the slightest. I've seen/listened to every 80's iconic movie, documentary, song, historical event, critical news coverage etc... and I can assure you and I assure you that this is NOT 80's in any way whatsoever. They put a few elements from the 80's here and there, like cop names from Police Academy or a mission with a Russian police guest (from Read Heat) but the way it's delivered and executed, from the dialogues to the action... it's either very, very bad writting or writting by an Instagram generation person with 1% knowledge of the 80s. The jokes and humor are very, very bad AND neither 80's whatsoever: wrong vocabulary, wrong tropes and horrible homages. You don't play a police game set in the 80's expecting either NOT to be set in the actual 80's, or to be that kind of a horrible homage, or to be that kind of unfunny (80's or not). -5/5

I really like the concept of a game, when you are just a simple cop in the 80. All of that with a pixelized street and cool music. The idea of fining people for parking in wrong places, no functioning lights in the car, and catching thieves - it's great. However, I really wish that it's more story-driven and we get to know more about the main character and people he is working with (or against). Still, it's the first game this year, that made me play non-stop for 5 hours and not even once - check my watch.

I liked it... but as another user said... they should made avaible a chill mode

This game is great for those of us who like to check off tasks. There's plenty to do and the story is well written. It really feels like you're a cop on a beat. Nothing is too difficult, at least so far (I'm on day 11). I'm not particularly skilled with fast twitch type stuff and there's nothing I haven't been able to handle. Recommended for a unique point and click playing experience. I'd check out any other games by this developer.