This Is the Police 1.1.3 — Mac build

180 days. That is how long Jack Boyd has before retirement, and the game asks you to fill those days with police work, staff management, and a growing pile of morally gray decisions. The goal is simple on paper: earn $500,000 before the clock runs out.

Strategy-adventure hybrid where daily calls and investigations shape the story

• Players who like strategy-adventure hybrids where daily calls and investigations are balanced against long-term planning.
• Anyone who enjoys making choices that actually change the story — lie to the press, torture suspects, or hide evidence, and Boyd's fate shifts with each call.
• Fans of fully voiced games; John St. John voices Jack Boyd, and the rest of the cast is solid too.

English voice-only with subtitles in eight languages

• The game is in English voice only, though subtitles and interface text are available in Russian, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, French, and Japanese.
• You manage a police station and its staff, so expect roster decisions, resource allocation, and occasional moral compromises.
• The current version is 1.1.3.0 (11246) fix, which addresses stability on recent macOS builds.

Common snags

A few things trip people up early. The investigation system doesn't always explain itself clearly. When gathering evidence against criminal gangs in Freeburg, note that some clues only appear after you've revisited a district more than once. If a case seems stuck, send a unit back to the same neighborhood a second or third time.

Staff complaints can pile up fast if you ignore the station's morale. Pay attention to the roster screen — officers with low loyalty will refuse calls or quit outright. Rotating shifts and assigning officers to tasks they're suited for keeps everyone functional. There is no shortcut to fixing morale, but ignoring it is worse.

The mayor's pressure comes in waves. He blocks certain actions or demands payoffs at specific points in the story. You cannot talk your way out of every confrontation. Sometimes you pay, sometimes you stall. The game tracks how much you push back, and that affects how hard he pushes later.

If the game doesn't start

On macOS 14 and later, the first launch might stall or show a blank screen. The 1.1.3.0 (11246) fix patch resolved this for most setups. If it still hangs, try launching from the Applications folder directly rather than through a launcher. On Apple Silicon Macs, the app detects architecture on its own — no Rosetta override needed, but manually switching to x86 mode in the Finder info panel is harmless if you want to test it.

Reorder dispatch queue and use autosave to your advantage

• You can reorder the dispatch queue by dragging calls. Sending the same unit to adjacent districts saves travel time.
• The game autosaves after each day ends. You can also save manually from the menu, but the autosave slot is separate, so using both gives you a fallback before big choices.
• Evidence gathered against criminal families carries over between investigations. If you close a case early without collecting everything, you lose that unused evidence. Let an investigation run its full length before closing it.
• The press screen shows how public opinion shifts per district. Watching that helps predict which areas will cause trouble later.

Adjust text speed and camera sensitivity in options on day one

The game defaults to a certain text speed and camera sensitivity. Open the options menu on the first day and adjust two things: text scroll speed to a comfortable pace (the default is slower than most people want), and the map zoom sensitivity so you're not fighting the camera during calls. Everything else in the settings is personal preference, but these two affect how the game feels from minute one.

Sound balance between voice and effects can be uneven. Drop the effects volume a notch so Jack Boyd's lines come through clearly. The voice acting is one of the game's strengths — no reason to bury it under sirens.

It runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, so it fits alongside the rest of your library without extra setup.

• macOS: not specified
• Architecture: both Intel and Apple Silicon