
- 70/100
- Players10 ratings
- 69/100
- Metacritic11 critic reviews
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 69/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 2.58/5
- Player reviews
- 75% positive1,574 reviews
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$9.99
Where to get it

2019 · Adventure · Role-playing
Rebel Cops
Rebel Cops is a spin-off game from This Is the Police, which exclusively features the series' turned-based tactical operations. Lead a rag-tag squad of cops in rebellion against their town's new criminal power, and see how long you can hold out when you're constantly short on supplies, and a single shot can cost a cop his life.
- Released
- 17 September 2019
- Platforms
- AndroidLinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4WindowsXbox OneiOSmacOS
- Genres
- AdventureRole-playingStrategyTacticalTurn-based strategyTurn-based tactics
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- THQ Nordic
- Modes
- Single-player
- Country
- Belarus
- Age ratings
- PEGI 18ACB MGRAC 15+USK 16ESRB M
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 14hmain story28hcompletionist
About
Rebel Cops is a 2019 turn-based tactics video game developed by Weappy Studio and published by THQ Nordic. It is a spinoff of This Is the Police and This Is the Police 2. Players control ex-police officers fighting against mobsters and a corrupt police department.
›Story
Viktor Zuev, a sadistic crime boss new on the scene, has quickly taken the town of Ripton by the throat. The community's leaders and even the local police have surrendered to his will. A master of intimidation and blackmail, Zuev has seized every major business in town, all of which he now controls as his own private fiefdom. But an outlaw band of renegade cops refuse to bow. With little hope of success, they fight on -- for justice, and the soul of their town.
Players say
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Players control a group of ex-police officers who quit when their rural town, including the police force, was overtaken by a Russian mobster. As they work to free their town, players engage in turn-based tactical combat against the mobsters and corrupt police. Players can attempt to arrest criminals, which has a percentage chance of success based on factors such as how intimidating the officer is. Enemies who surrender this way are taken off the map and provide more experience points.
Arresting enemies as opposed to killing them also earns "rebel points" used to activate special abilities. Upon gaining a level, players can customize the police officers with special abilities, such as the ability to fight back while injured or to arrest enemies from a distance. Characters can automatically warn each other when they are about to be spotted by suspects.
Development
THQ Nordic released Rebel Cops for Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on September 17, 2019. HandyGames released it for iOS and Android on April 23, 2020.
Reception
Rebel Cops received mixed reviews on Metacritic. Rock Paper Shotgun said they did not have enough information to make decisions, which they felt made completing a level repetitive and frustrating. Polygon was disappointed that the gameplay was different from its trailers, which they felt made it look like Longmire. They said it was not a bad game but has poor pacing and a lack of depth.
Nintendo Life praised its replayability, challenging but easy-to-understand gameplay, and mission design, but they disliked the story and the Switch version's user interface. Push Square enjoyed the challenge posed by a lack of hit points and scarce resources, but they felt the more open missions lost this tense gameplay and became unfocused.
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