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Police Chief Simulator
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Released Sep 17, 2026Windows PC / Steam18 Supported LanguagesSingle-Player · First-Person
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GuidePolice Chief Simulator Guide
Police Chief Simulator drops you into a broken-down station in Winston Springs County. The working loop is: clear and power the building, open the registration desk with a fax machine and forms, fax clean case files to HQ for money, expand cases in the detective room, then hire officers, patrol the town, and upgrade toward the level-3 station.
GuidePolice Chief Simulator Gameplay Walkthrough
The documented full-game flow runs: break into the station and restore power → clean the registration room → receive furniture → buy fax, shredder, and forms at Tony's pawn shop → register and fax cases for $30 each → build the detective room and crack cases for $60 → reach reputation level 1, upgrade the station, hire staff, then move on to patrol tickets, arrests, and prison bookings.
GuidePolice Chief Simulator Controls
Police Chief Simulator is played on keyboard and mouse: E interacts, TAB opens the tools menu, holding Ctrl enters furniture placement (rotate with the mouse wheel), stamps and scanner are clicked directly, and driving uses W/A/S/D with Space for the handbrake, L for lights, H for horn, and C for the camera. No official controller layout has been shown in any footage — every known video uses keyboard and mouse.
GuidePolice Chief Simulator Map
Police Chief Simulator takes place in and around Winston Springs, a small town in Winston Springs County. The full game's usable map includes Tony's pawn shop, a gas station, a car dealer with a garage, the Bare Arms gun shop, the Sunny Hill Motel, the county prison, and an interstate with speed-enforcement zones. You unlock more dangerous districts of the county as your station levels up.
Release & PlatformsPolice Chief Simulator Release Date
Police Chief Simulator is out now. The full version launched on Steam on September 17, 2026, unlocking at 17:00 CEST (15:00 UTC). The free Prologue arrived April 20, 2026, and the demo on July 20, 2026. The game is a Windows PC / Steam release — $17.99 at launch (10% off $19.99), with no console versions announced. Five days in, the store's review summary reads "Mostly Positive" — 76% of 496 reviews as of September 22, 2026, settling from the launch-day spike.Release & PlatformsPolice Chief Simulator Price
Police Chief Simulator costs $17.99 USD on Steam — a 10% launch discount off the $19.99 base price, verified against official Steam store data on September 30, 2026, with the discount still active. Player reviews during the window recorded checkout prices around $16 in regional sales. It is a Windows PC exclusive sold only through Steam, and the demo and Prologue remain free.Release & PlatformsPolice Chief Simulator System Requirements
Police Chief Simulator's official minimum requirements, verified from Steam store data on September 18, 2026 and re-verified September 22, 2026 (minimum tier unchanged): Windows (64-bit) 10, Intel Core i5-3550 CPU, GeForce GTX 1060 graphics, DirectX 11, 9 GB storage, and a DirectX-compatible sound card. No recommended-spec tier has been published. The game is Windows PC only, via Steam.
Release & PlatformsPolice Chief Simulator Ps5
There is no PS5 version of Police Chief Simulator, and none has been announced. Official store data verified on September 18, 2026 lists exactly one platform — Windows PC, via Steam — where the game launched September 17, 2026 for $17.99. Every PS5 search result in our research belonged to a different game, Police Simulator: Patrol Officers.
Release & PlatformsPolice Chief Simulator Xbox
Police Chief Simulator has no Xbox version and no announced Xbox release. The verified platform is Windows PC through Steam — the full game (September 17, 2026), the demo, and the free Prologue are all Steam-only in every collected source, with no Microsoft Store listing or developer statement about consoles.Release & PlatformsPolice Chief Simulator Controller Support
Police Chief Simulator has no confirmed official controller support. Every gameplay video collected for this page shows keyboard and mouse, Steam forum threads about poor controller behavior date back to the Prologue, and no developer statement or supported-gamepad list exists. The game does include a controls menu with rebindable keys.
Release & PlatformsPolice Chief Simulator Demo
Yes — Police Chief Simulator has an official free demo on Steam, released July 20, 2026. It covers the game's opening loop: cleaning and reopening the station, registering and faxing cases, building the detective room, hiring your first staff, and unlocking the ticket book. Upgrades are capped around police station level 2, and the full game continues far beyond that.
Release & PlatformsPolice Chief Simulator: Prologue
Police Chief Simulator: Prologue - Early Days is a free standalone prologue on Steam, released April 20, 2026. It covers the very beginning — breaking into the station, restoring power, cleaning, opening case registration, faxing files to HQ, and solving your first detective-board cases — and ends with a teaser for everything the full game adds: the open world, chases, arrests, and hiring full staff.
Police Station ManagementPolice Chief Simulator How To Make Money
Money in Police Chief Simulator comes from four engines: faxing clean case files to HQ ($15–$30 each, about $60 when you crack them first), booking prisoners at the county prison ($75–$250 plus reputation, with launch-week runs paying $100–$240 a head), issuing tickets ($20–$50 parking, $38–$90 speeding), and the $300 speed gun — player sessions reached $1,700–$2,500. Every wage and bill is deducted at 21:00 in-game, so end each day with a cushion.Police Station ManagementPolice Chief Simulator Officer Management
Police Chief Simulator has three staff groups — Police Officers, Detectives, and Office Workers. You hire through the Hired In computer app (each candidate shows strength, charisma, intelligence, and a daily wage around $45–$65), give every employee a personal locker (~$225), assign them to rooms via the management board, and fire them by shredding their file.
Police Station ManagementPolice Chief Simulator How To Dispatch Officers
Officer dispatch happens through the briefing room: take an expanded case from the detective room to the briefing board, assign officers (each pair adds success chance), equip handcuffs, guns, and optionally a vehicle from the garage, then send the team. Missions run on a visible timer on the Winston Springs map, and officers walk back in with a caught criminal if the odds held.Police Station ManagementPolice Chief Simulator Briefing Room
The briefing room is Police Chief Simulator's mission hub: expanded cases from the detective room arrive on the briefing board, where you select a case, assign officers and equipment, and send the team into the city. It costs about $1,250 to build, requires lockers and at least two hires as part of its unlock chain, and pairs later with the armory and garage for gear and vehicle dispatch.Police Station ManagementPolice Chief Simulator Best Upgrades
There is no official upgrade list, but successful runs agree on an order: registration furniture and the detective room first (income), then the locker room and hires, the briefing room ($1,250), armory ($950), garage ($1,450), and holding cells ($1,890), then the level-2 station (~$1,350) and the level-3 station (~$4,500, reputation level 8 required). All prices are player-observed, not official.Police Station ManagementPolice Chief Simulator How To Get Reputation
Reputation comes from doing police work well: faxing error-free case files, cracking cases in the detective room, and especially booking criminals — players report about +10 to +20 rep per prisoner, roughly +15 for personally delivered ones, and +127 from a single transport batch. Rep gates progression: level 1 unlocks the first expansion, and level 8 is required for the level-3 station.
Police Station ManagementPolice Chief Simulator How To Place Furniture
Furniture in Police Chief Simulator arrives as boxes from Tony's pawn shop or free story deliveries. To place an item, hold Ctrl to enter placement mode, rotate with the mouse wheel, and left-click only when the floor highlight is green. Clean the room first — HQ will not deliver into a dirty registration room — and give every system its furniture: fax and shredder at registration, scanner and evidence board in the detective room, lockers in the locker room.Cases & InvestigationPolice Chief Simulator Cases
Cases in Police Chief Simulator run the official three-stage pipeline: Case Registration, Case Examination, Case Execution. In play, a citizen reports a crime, you verify the form against their ID and stamp it, clean files fax to HQ for $15–$30, and files you work on the evidence board crack for about $60 — with launch-week days totaling $650 in case revenue.Cases & InvestigationPolice Chief Simulator Detective Board
The detective board is Police Chief Simulator's investigation minigame. Take a case file to the detective room's scanner, let the database auto-print its documents, pin the victim, suspect, and location to the board, connect the strings between the correct printouts, and photograph the board — the game declares the case cracked and the file faxes for about $60 instead of $15–$30.Cases & InvestigationPolice Chief Simulator Fax Machine
The fax machine is how closed case files become money in Police Chief Simulator. Buy it at Tony's pawn shop (part of the $205–$300 starter order with the shredder and registration forms), fax clean files to HQ for $15–$30, and fax cracked case files for about $60 — the tutorial's rule is that the bonus arrives 'as long as they won't have any errors.'Cases & InvestigationPolice Chief Simulator Scanner
The scanner is the detective room's input device in Police Chief Simulator: open the lid, insert a case file, close it, and press start. The game then runs the file through the citizen database automatically and prints the results for your evidence board. It needs the printer stocked with paper, and it only matters once you are expanding cases rather than just faxing them.Patrol & ArrestPolice Chief Simulator How To Arrest
Arrests in Police Chief Simulator follow the in-game tutorial chain: 'identify the criminal, handcuff them, place them inside a police vehicle, and take them to the prison.' You buy handcuffs and a pistol with rubber ammunition at the gun shop (about $510–$610 kitted out), chase fleeing suspects and drop them with rubber bullets, cuff and carry them to your cruiser's rear seats, then book them at Winston County Prison for $75–$250 plus reputation.Patrol & ArrestPolice Chief Simulator Prisoner Transport
Captured criminals in Police Chief Simulator must reach Winston County Prison. You can drive them yourself — rear seats only, about two per cruiser — for the best money (payouts of $75–$250 plus ~15 reputation each) and returned handcuffs, or call the prison transport van (ordered via the furniture catalog, ~$700; pickups via 968-7000) at about $105 per prisoner with no rep bonus.Patrol & ArrestPolice Chief Simulator Speed Camera
Police Chief Simulator's speed enforcement is a hand-held speed gun — the 'speed camera' players talk about — bought at Bare Arms for $300. Press E to enter aiming mode, target a vehicle on the interstate's 70-limit zone, wait for the red exclamation mark, and photograph it to issue a ticket worth roughly $38–$90. Players report sessions of $1,700–$2,500, making it the game's best pure money-maker.Patrol & ArrestPolice Chief Simulator How To Refuel
Refueling in Police Chief Simulator happens at the town gas station: park beside a pump, open the fuel cap, take the nozzle, and pump manually (hold the pump control) or flip the switch for autofill-to-max, then close the cap and press pay. Players report about $50–$106 per fill depending on how empty the tank is, and the fuel gauge lives in the HUD's bottom-left.TechnicalPolice Chief Simulator Not Launching
Most Police Chief Simulator launch trouble falls into two buckets. Crashes on or after loading: players consistently report that forcing DX11 gets past DX12-mode crashes, and the infamous save-loading crash has an official story — the developer published an upipelinecache-deletion workaround on September 19, 2026 and stated with Patch #21 (September 24) that the crash itself is most likely fixed, so update and retry before deleting anything. Game does nothing at all: run the standard Steam checklist — meet the store page's minimum specs (GTX 1060, 9 GB), verify files, update your GPU driver, disable overlays, reinstall as a last step.TechnicalPolice Chief Simulator Save Location
Police Chief Simulator saves in %LOCALAPPDATA%\PoliceChiefSimulator\Saved — officially published September 19, 2026 in the Hotfix #6–#8 save-crash workaround. Also confirmed: manual save slots plus multiple autosaves, Steam Cloud (store listing, verified September 18, 2026), and R-key save renaming from an earlier hotfix.Related GamesPolice Chief Simulator Car Dealer Simulator
Police Chief Simulator and Car Dealer Simulator are connected: the developer has announced a shared Winston Springs universe, and in gameplay the town's car dealer — a Car Dealer Simulator location — is where you repair and buy police vehicles. Community footage also references further universe titles. Beyond the shared setting and dealership, deeper crossover specifics remain to be confirmed.Cases & InvestigationPolice Chief Simulator Phone Numbers
Police Chief Simulator runs its shopping through the station phone: you dial a business's number and the order arrives by delivery truck at your barrier. Every number verified in play so far: 612-555 for Tony's pawn shop (furniture, tools, forms, paper), 248-648 for the car dealer (repairs and vehicle purchases), and 968-7000 for the prisoner transport service. The station's own phone also drives the quest line — Ron Dunn's calls are how the story reaches you.Cases & InvestigationPolice Chief Simulator Deceased Officer
Officer deaths in Police Chief Simulator are real but rare and community-documented: reviews report officers dying on dispatch missions — including four officers lost to tier-1 missions in one early run despite 95–100% shown odds, and a death on a 100% three-star case. The station keeps running after a death and the hire screen returns, but no source documents funeral events, morale effects, or replacement costs. The practical protection: strong officers, proper equipment, odds at 100%, and a manual save before any dispatch you cannot afford to lose.Official latest
From Perfect Circle Team
Sep 8, 2026
Briefing Room — Dispatching Officers
The official devlog explains that prepared cases arrive in the Briefing Room, where the chief selects a case, assigns officers, chooses equipment, and sends the team into the city.
Jul 10, 2026The DEMO Gameplay Stream Is Now Available
Perfect Circle Team says the stream showcases station management, daily duties, criminal chases, officer coordination, and department expansion.
Jul 5, 2026SOON IN DEMO: Vandalism and Graffiti
The official update introduces vandalism encounters, chases, and placing a suspect into the patrol car.