Games Like Contraband Police

Usually everyone is unemployed here. But by chance you got a job. You'il work for the state.Everyone in your family is sick or unemployed, only you can help them. You're an immigrant officer.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 38%, Simulation 25.9%, Open World 13%, Survival 6.8%, Action 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person border-guard simulator similarly mixes document checks, vehicle inspections, driving, and life in a harsh fictional state.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Simulation 30.9%, Multiple Endings 29.5%, Story Rich 13.6%, Indie 10.1%, Singleplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its core loop of checking documents, catching smugglers, and making morally difficult border-control decisions is the closest match to Contraband Police's inspection gameplay.

Averno City, 1983. Gangs rule the streets and your father lies restless in his grave. Clean up the city, uncover the truth, and embark on thrilling vehicle chases through destructible environments in this neon-noir action sandbox police game.

Why similar: Detective 22%, 1980s 20.5%, Open World 18.6%, Realistic 12.7%, Immersive Sim 12%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world police sandbox captures the patrol, pursuit, arrest, and crime-response side of Contraband Police in a reactive city.

Welcome to Brighton! Join the police force of this fictitious American city and experience the day to day life of a police officer.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 32.9%, Open World 21.9%, Realistic 16.2%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Simulation 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers detailed first-person policing, including traffic stops, ID checks, arrests, patrol driving, and responding to escalating incidents.

Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

Why similar: Simulation 56%, Multiple Endings 21.6%, Story Rich 12.2%, Singleplayer 5.9%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: You inspect IDs, enforce entry rules, and navigate a politically oppressive Britain while balancing personal survival and official demands.

You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

Why similar: Multiple Endings 34.1%, Simulation 22.9%, Story Rich 19.8%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Singleplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: As a government ministry employee in a totalitarian state, you process citizens' paperwork and make consequential choices under authoritarian pressure.

Imagine you're a 12 year old, suddenly in charge of the guard shed at the castle gate, where you decide if elves, goblins and 100+ other characters should be admitted. It's a wonderful combination of deduction, narrative and puzzle games.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 51.9%, Story Rich 28.9%, Singleplayer 11.1%, Indie 8%

Why You'll Like It: This lighter fantasy take on border duty revolves around interrogating visitors, checking documents, and deciding who is allowed through the gate.

Welcome to Caminora! Immerse yourself in the authentic police work of the American Highway Patrol. Solve cases, chase criminals and explore the open-world. Choose your officer and tackle the everyday life on the highways. Will you be able to maintain law and order?

Why similar: Simulation 24.5%, Open World 24%, Action-Adventure 14.6%, Action 13.7%, Realistic 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its highway patrol premise centers on driving, stopping suspicious vehicles, and taking action against road-based crime.

Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.

Why similar: Simulation 52.9%, Multiple Endings 37.4%, Indie 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the original's checkpoint-style document checking into a road-trip across America with branching political and personal outcomes.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Multiple Endings 34.9%, Simulation 21.7%, Story Rich 19.2%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Singleplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its surveillance, reporting, searches, and difficult choices create a similarly bleak feeling of serving an intrusive authoritarian regime.

Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.

Why similar: Management 35.7%, Story Rich 23.3%, Detective 15.4%, Simulation 8.4%, Singleplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: You manage police operations while handling investigations, corruption, interrogations, and fraught decisions in a grim law-enforcement setting.

Experience the exciting day-to-day life of an US police officer in Police Simulator: Patrol Duty. Discover a large, lively and freely-accessible US city powered by Unreal®Engine 4 and ensure the safety in your district.

Why similar: Open World 38.7%, Simulation 27.8%, Realistic 20.6%, First-Person 5.8%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This patrol-focused simulator emphasizes routine police work such as checking vehicles, issuing fines, and dealing with criminal incidents.

A retro, pixel art style adventure in New York, inspired by ’80s cop shows. You are Jack Kelly and you’ve been framed for murder. Now as a regular beat cop you have to find out, who did that. Expect thick crime story, a lot of black humour and all the other things you can find on the streets of Brooklyn.

Why similar: 1980s 42.5%, Detective 21.7%, Simulation 17.1%, Multiple Endings 5.4%, Story Rich 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: As a street cop in 1980s Brooklyn, you inspect people and vehicles, issue citations, investigate crimes, and juggle competing factions.

Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!

Why similar: Detective 36.1%, Immersive Sim 22.6%, Open World 20.5%, First-Person 10.2%, Action 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its immersive detective sandbox lets you search apartments, inspect evidence, question citizens, and solve crimes through systemic investigation.

This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

Why similar: Management 33.5%, Detective 28%, Story Rich 15.7%, Simulation 10.8%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the administrative and morally compromised side of running a police department under political and criminal pressure.

Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.

Why similar: Open World 23%, Simulation 19.5%, First-Person 12.8%, FPS 10.6%, Realistic 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: You scout targets, steal goods, evade authorities, and use vehicles in a grounded first-person crime simulation.

A new breed of Police Simulator, Enforcer demands you show exceptional bravery in the line of duty while under pressure and enemy gunfire.

Why similar: Open World 46.1%, Simulation 29.5%, Action 12.1%, Realistic 5.9%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world police work, vehicle chases, arrests, and combat in a way that suits Contraband Police's action-heavy moments.

From the THIEF SIMULATOR developers. It's the 80s. Steal VCRs, tapes, classic cars, and if you get caught, outrun the police!

Why similar: 1980s 34.1%, Immersive Sim 19.5%, Open World 18.6%, Action-Adventure 11.9%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its 1980s setting, stealthy theft loops, break-ins, and black-market criminal theme complement Contraband Police's smuggling atmosphere.

The door to your robber’s career is waiting! Just crowbar the lock off and force your way through the threshold. Learn skills, collect tools and become a master of the thieving trade!

Why similar: Open World 30.3%, Simulation 20.2%, First-Person 17.5%, Realistic 9%, Action 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person sneaking, lockpicking, vehicle use, and contraband-oriented burglary offer the criminal counterpart to border inspections.

A fresh take on top-down shooters with an emphasis on tactics that forces you to make split second decisions. Neutralize criminals, rescue civilians and defuse bombs in Single Player mode or Co-op. And remember - shooting first is not an option!

Why similar: Simulation 32.4%, Realistic 27.1%, Action 20.5%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Singleplayer 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This tactical police game stresses careful room clearing, arrests, evidence handling, and avoiding reckless use of force.

Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW

Why similar: Simulation 27.6%, Open World 22.2%, Management 13.3%, Realistic 10.5%, First-Person 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same gritty Eastern European atmosphere, driving, faction pressure, contraband economy, and risk of law enforcement.

Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.7%, Open World 15.1%, Management 11.7%, First-Person 9.4%, Survival 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on maintaining an unreliable car and traveling through a Cold War-era Eastern Bloc makes its road-trip mood especially compatible.

A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?

Why similar: 1980s 30.8%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Management 15.3%, Simulation 10%, First-Person 10%

Why You'll Like It: You operate a state-controlled news broadcast, making censorship and propaganda choices amid political upheaval and dark humor.

Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

Why similar: Simulation 68.9%, Detective 14.8%, Story Rich 5.8%, Multiple Endings 5.5%, Atmospheric 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: You investigate citizens through surveillance databases and decide what information to report to an increasingly authoritarian government.

Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 46.7%, Realistic 14.7%, Simulation 13.5%, Open World 8%, Immersive Sim 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: While less focused on law enforcement, it offers similarly tactile vehicle repair, parts inspection, and hands-on garage management.

Brave the challenging conditions of Alaskan life in the definitive trucker simulator. Be the master of your own destiny as you take jobs, transport cargo and experience a sense of freedom on foot and in your cab.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 24.7%, Open World 14.4%, Realistic 10.7%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its realistic vehicle maintenance, cargo runs, long-distance driving, and survival demands appeal to the logistical side of Contraband Police.

Uncover a goldmine in the used car market! Sniff out deals, buy low, modify, and sell high. Your journey from amateur grease monkey to car dealer magnate awaits. How fast will you rise in this lucrative venture?

Why similar: Automobile Sim 26.9%, Open World 14.2%, Immersive Sim 11%, Realistic 10.3%, Management 10.1%

Do what it takes to make your fledgling security agency thrive in this 80s noir crime bustin', dirty crossing, vengeance-seeking board game inspired strategy game with dice and cards.

Why similar: 1980s 32.8%, Detective 24.7%, Management 15.4%, Simulation 8.8%, Story Rich 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This 1980s private-security management game combines casework, investigations, staff deployment, and a gritty crime-ridden atmosphere.

Once you get tangled with the mob, you will forever be a part of the mob. At least they pay a decent salary and all you have to do is clean up after their dirty work, but you know what you’re doing. So clean crime scenes, earn as much money as you can, and get ready for the next mission.

Why similar: Simulation 32%, First-Person 24.5%, Realistic 19.8%, Atmospheric 8%, Singleplayer 7.4%

Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.

Why similar: Realistic 19.5%, Immersive Sim 16.4%, Management 16.3%, Simulation 14.9%, First-Person 14.7%

Legal Dungeon is a game about organizing Police Investigation Documents. The player must review and provide an Investigation Verdict on reports ranging from petty theft to murder, in eight different criminal cases. Weigh the value of people’s lives to unlock all the collectables.

Why similar: Simulation 54.7%, Detective 33.8%, Indie 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This bureaucratic detective game has you review case files, interpret evidence, and decide suspects' fates within a flawed justice system.

Get a taste of prison life! Become a prison guard and deal with dangerous convicts. Prison management, lots of daily activities. Will you become the best guard in history? Or maybe you'll turn into the worst scumbag this Prison has ever seen?

Why similar: Open World 20.9%, FPS 17.6%, Realistic 16.6%, First-Person 11.9%, Simulation 10.8%

Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...

Why similar: Management 30.6%, Multiple Endings 29.5%, Simulation 19.2%, Story Rich 15.1%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: You serve a dystopian regime by evaluating citizens, enforcing doctrine, and choosing between official loyalty and personal conscience.

Cheap Car Repair - go back in time to Poland of the 90's. Run your own Cheap Car Repair shop. Look for savings wherever you can. Make lots of money and avoid angry customers!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 32.6%, Immersive Sim 13.4%, Management 12%, Realistic 11.4%, First-Person 9.4%

As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?

Why similar: Detective 36%, Realistic 20.9%, Management 20%, Story Rich 11.8%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes questioning suspects, managing limited evidence, and making ethically uncomfortable choices to protect the state.

The Slaverian Trucker is a Survival/Truck/Life simulator game. Make enough money to survive and expand your wealth in the harsh semi-post apocalyptic lands of Slaveria, doing legal and illegal work, while maintaining, fixing, building, repairing, tuning your trucks, cars and other vehicles.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 29.6%, Open World 15.8%, Immersive Sim 9.6%, Simulation 8.3%, FPS 7.7%

Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...

Why similar: Immersive Sim 21.4%, Management 19.9%, Multiple Endings 17.2%, Physics 14.5%, First-Person 13.7%

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Open World 22.5%, Realistic 16.4%, Survival 14.5%, First-Person 12.4%, Simulation 11%

From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

Why similar: Open World 30.2%, Management 24.1%, Simulation 18.7%, First-Person 12.1%, FPS 9.4%

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!

Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Management 20.5%, Immersive Sim 18.8%, First-Person 15.7%, Simulation 14.1%

Your quintessential construction simulator is here. Take a dodgy loan, restore a property, move in the locals, attend to their grievances, then celebrate with a pint in this fully-simulated, open-world 1980's Britain.

Why similar: 1980s 18.2%, Destruction 16.5%, Open World 15.5%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Realistic 10%

Buy used cars and motorcycles, negotiate with sellers, and discover each vehicle’s true value. Drive, repair, repaint, and customize your vehicles before selling them for a profit. Start with a small office, grow your dealership, and become the city’s most successful vehicle dealer!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.4%, Open World 14.5%, Immersive Sim 14.5%, FPS 14.2%, Realistic 9.1%

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Management 30.6%, Simulation 28%, Immersive Sim 15%, First-Person 10.8%, Realistic 10.2%

Used Cars Simulator - trade used or stolen cars, fix and customize them, drive around, and explore the open world! Grow your business, complete quests, and have fun with a physics-based sandbox!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 33.3%, Open World 18.5%, Immersive Sim 12.7%, Realistic 11.8%, Physics 9.1%

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Open World 18.8%, Simulation 16.9%, Management 16.3%, Realistic 14.3%, First-Person 10.5%

Police Officer is a first-person police station simulator where you manage a police station: process suspects, hear citizens' pleas, and manage the daily chaos of law enforcement—one decision at a time.

Why similar: Detective 30.6%, Simulation 21.1%, Immersive Sim 17.8%, Realistic 11.7%, First-Person 9.3%

Too long in this prison, time to get out of here. Pull the carpet and start digging with a teaspoon. Watch out for the guard, sell him the junk you find. Trade toilet paper with the prisoners. Get better items and improve your stats. Expand the tunnel, use glow sticks and dynamite. Will you escape?

Why similar: Simulation 17.3%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Realistic 15.4%, Physics 14.2%, First-Person 12.9%

Step into the critical role of a baggage security operative in Airport X-Ray Simulator. As part of the backbone of airport security, you are the last line of defense against prohibited or illegal items making their way onto an aircraft or into the airport.

Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Immersive Sim 16.1%, Management 15.6%, Realistic 10.7%, Physics 10.6%

Police Shootout is a new turn-based FPS game. Put on your uniform and get ready to respond the most surprising calls in your policeman’s career. Solve cases and gain experience, but also find out why a good young policeman gave up his career in a big city and moved to a small town of San Adrino.

Why similar: FPS 22.8%, Realistic 17.5%, First-Person 16.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Action-Adventure 11%

I Want to Believe is a first-person action game with elements of detective work, simulation, stealth, freedom of action, and driving.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 26.6%, FPS 11.1%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Survival 10.4%, Realistic 9.8%

Become a Gunsmith and unveil the great pleasure of working in your own workshop! Repair, restore and personalize guns to make unique pieces that every firearm lover will appreciate.

Why similar: Realistic 20.7%, Management 16.7%, FPS 16.5%, Simulation 14.1%, First-Person 13.1%

You’re out of jail, but the debt isn’t gone. Sneak, steal, and break into houses solo or in 4-player co-op. Use lockpicks, sleeping gas, and brute force to complete jobs, outsmart security, and make enough money before time runs out. Will you pay back what you owe, or lose everything?

Why similar: FPS 21.8%, Simulation 17.2%, First-Person 15.7%, Immersive Sim 13.9%, Realistic 11.4%

A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!

Why similar: Multiple Endings 25.6%, Management 23.3%, Simulation 17%, Story Rich 15.5%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Autobahn Police Simulator 3 lets you play as a rookie officer who just resumed their position after a serious car accident left them incapacitated for a while. Work diligently and take on missions to become a capable police officer and keep the autobahn safe.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 33.8%, Open World 16.8%, Simulation 14.1%, Immersive Sim 9.7%, Realistic 8.3%

Climb into the driver's seat of your car and your business, transport passengers across Barcelona and grow your company! Can you help relieve the transportation challenges of a city that never sleeps?

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.8%, Open World 15.9%, Realistic 11.4%, Immersive Sim 10%, Management 9%

Free introduction to the full Police Chief Simulator game takes you to Winston Springs Police Station! Handle incoming reports, renovate and expand the station, solve cases, and fight crime!

Why similar: Simulation 22.4%, Detective 18.4%, Immersive Sim 17.8%, Realistic 13.3%, Action 13.1%

What turns a drug dealer into a drug lord? Find out in DDS2, a first-person co-op sim set in a dynamic open world. Make contacts, cook drugs, and manage your cartel on Isla Sombra, where power is the only law.

Why similar: Open World 27.7%, Management 16%, Realistic 15.8%, First-Person 13.1%, Simulation 12.5%

Play solo or in up to 10-player multiplayer co-op! Flashing Lights is an open world police, firefighting and EMS simulator game with plenty of opportunity for role-play or more relaxed fun with friends. Become the law or save lives! Discover leagues of player-created mods!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.7%, Destruction 16.5%, Open World 15.4%, Realistic 11.6%, FPS 11.3%

When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 22.4%, Detective 19.2%, Realistic 18.8%, Simulation 17.6%, First-Person 14.5%

Responding is an upcoming open-world Emergency Services simulator sandbox that offers a realistic and in-depth Police, Fire, and EMS experience that is set in a fictional version of New York State.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 23.1%, Open World 15.1%, Detective 15%, Realistic 11.4%, Immersive Sim 10.9%