Last updated on December 17th, 2025 at 01:08 am
Police Department Tycoon – Strategy Game Review
Police Department Tycoon is a Strategy/Simulation game from AI GAMES FZ LLC, first launched in 18th February 2024.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 4,488+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Police Department Tycoon Stand Out
Are you ready to become a police tycoon and manage your own police department? With the idle police simulator, you can build and upgrade your very own police stations, complete with 911 dispatch centers and state-of-the-art equipment.
MANAGE YOUR DEPARTMENT
Train your police officers and develop your pets to enhance their abilities and make your department even more effective. With multiple police stations to develop and maintain, you'll need to keep a close eye on your resources and invest your idle money wisely to ensure the success of your department. But don't worry – with idle tycoon gameplay, you can still succeed even if you're not constantly playing.
PROVIDE SECURITY
Take on cop duty and chase down criminals in exciting cop simulator missions. Bring the most dangerous and elusive criminals to justice. Once the criminals are caught, you also have to manage prisons and ensure that the criminals are properly incarcerated.
GAME FEATURES
- Constant challenges
- Advance upgrade system
- Unique officers and detectives
- Notorious crime bosses
- Free to play idle tycoon game
If you love cop games, police car games, and police chase games, you'll enjoy Police Department Tycoon. This free police sim game offers hours of entertainment for players of all ages. So what are you waiting for? Start building your empire today!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Police Department Tycoon is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Minor improvements
Download & Availability
Police Department Tycoon is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Police Department Tycoon on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
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Having to upgrade 5 characters before upgrading to the next level is ridiculous. This is weeks of playing. If this is a req to move to the next prison the drops for character upgrading needs to be fixed.
We think that this game is really fun and nice how we can do different things to make the police station better.
Great game in general couldnt be better awesome game.
This game is great and we have been waiting playing it for a while but its nearly impossible for us to enjoy the game when Im 7 ranks behind and we cant switch prisons This is because of some xp updates and prison releases so we just get stuck and it kinda makes the game unplayable please fix this.
More levels Ive completed all levels and cant do anything but the same prison games. Need more levels on the police building side and also different prison ones. We have to do the same three prisons quest all the time. We will give a five star once it all changes. Its horrible you completely finish five or six levels and the game is done. Pleas add more levels and also new prison ones.
Im really trying to like this game, but the bugs are making it impossible to play. Our progress isnt saving, we didnt get our rewards from the event, and the catch the criminal keeps forcing us to downgrade to lower level equipment. We unlocked the crime lab, only to later open the game with no crime lab or accumulated money. Its really frustrating and Im close to just uninstalling it if these bugs arent fixed soon.
It has proven to be a good w as y to pass the time and keep us entertained.
Paid the $15.00, to remove the commercial. Not worth the money. Boring game.
Theres a bug in the London prison event. We started the event and upgraded a couple of things. But when we closed the game we came back maybe 2-4 hours later, and the prison was fully upgraded. So we basically just have to let the game play and Ill get all the rewards.
We have noticed recently in the special events that when we step away from the game, and come back, a short time later, that buildings will have been built/upgraded on their own, which you wouldnt think would be a problem, but it prevents us from getting the rewards for the upgrades. A few minutes ago, a new special event started, and when we went to build something new, the game froze, and when we relaunched it and went back into the special event, all buildings were built and maxed out, and Im not getting the rewards for building those things. This event is a complete waste of time if Im being cheated out of getting any rewards due to a glitch in the system.
It helps us relax in this game knowing in our feeble mind, we apprehended some criminals. Hehe.
We like the gameplay and how you can upgrade and buy detect TY for the game.
After completing the building of the briefing room, the screen freezes. We get out of the app and go back in to see if its working and it goes back to showing the completed sign over the briefing room every single time.
Ive played many of the idle style games where you build up businesses and such. A lot of them have a terrible pay wall or adds that okay randomly in their own. Which can ruin the experience. But this game is fun, theres the prison to build and the police station. It doesnt make you feel like you have to pay to win. We would recommend this game.
This game is glitchy. You hit the discord button or the write us button and it kicks you out of the game. Im confused on some aspects of the game mainly the events. It gives you tasks but when you click on them it doesnt show you what to do or how to do them. We have just stopped playing the events. The game in regular mode is fine. We just watch ads and upgrade stuff cuz there is no way unless you wait forever to upgrade stuff with the money you earn. If you wants something to pass the time for a few days this is a good way to do it. We are going to give it another couple of days if its more of the same we will delete and find something else.
Solid game as far as tycoon games go. Nothing terribly original. Our biggest problem is that xp is required to level up in order to build new rooms. Xp is only gained while online and its really slow. We have to gain 9 levels to build the room required for our quests and it looks like Id have to leave the app open and running for a week to get there. After that there is another room that will require another 20 levels. Its game breaking. If this gets fixed itd be a very solid game.
Its fun just asked us to rate it early in the game.
Havent stopped playing it since we downloaded the game.
Currently on Raccoon City map, however we have zero tasks which we find quite odd as each time Ive gone to a new location, Ive had missions right away. Cant go back to the previous map either to make sure we didnt miss anything before progressing to the next map after unlocking the Police Wharf.
So Ive been stuck on the level 10 police car.. All cars have been upgraded to level 10 and it still wont allow us to move to the next award.its been like this for two weeks we thought with the update it would have been fixed but it wasnt.
Being forced to watch ads..really? Not cool.
Seems like a lot of bugs like upgrade something and its already upgraded stuff like that. Fix that stuff and it will be fun.
It is hard to advance. The game has to many bugs, glitches and commercials to keep playing. It boring too.
We have upgraded everything on our task board but it will not move forward with a new task. Any ideals on how to fix this.
We wanted to like this game but there are bugs and poor communication. The game has stalled because of a bug that says we need to complete an upgrade for a room. The upgrade has been completed for days now and the game still says it hasnt been done and wont let us move further. Ive sent a couple of emails to the developer and got no response.
We love the game. No complaints here.
Game is good but it has a glitch an update may help it ya do an update on it thx.
Love the game just need more content . We bought the no ads and we feel like we completed the game in 10 min ! Plz add more content.
Very good and is a super Duper fun.
This game is awesome!! The only thing we would change is how many times the cops go on breaks. Its ridiculous! Every two minutes almost all of the cops are on break.
Play this constantly throughout the day. Only issue is Im on Liberty City and our improvements have been stuck for 3 days now so we cant progress. Please fix ASAP.
We just got this game a day or two ago and Im still having a lot of fun. Everything seems so simple and plain which makes it stand out. Remember those old arcade games where all you did was push the button to play and it seems so fun? Thats what this is like. 10/10 would recommend. Mason.
On the research center, there is a bug with the first thing you buy and its completed, but there is still a timer on it. Other than this small issue, this is a great game. Please fix.
Twice now this game has bugged on us, we were just supposed to receive 100 gems from the current progress but it didnt give us them; and in the event we needed to spend 200 tokens, we spent 600 tokens and it didnt remove the task nor give us the reward from it. Other than that we like the game.
This has the potential to be one of our favorite games. We love how it keeps you always busy doing something. Our only issue is when trying to make improvements with the lab beakers. We have 4 right now that wont read as complete even though the time has expired. Please make a fix for this! Otherwise, GREAT GAME.
We like the game but it has bugs. For example, the research improvements, we started the first one for the kitchen and the 10 minutes has well passed but its stalled out. We cant start it again and it wont complete. We tried using diamonds to skip the time and watching an add to achieve the same result but since the timer bar is blank, nothing happens. Yeaterday we were making $4k/30s and now its only giving us $1.66k/30sec. The dogs are also having issues. We need to level up their experience in order to continue doing the harder missions, which give experience points, but we can only do the easy mission which gives no experience points. Our dogs are maxed out on health/food and happiness for their level but Im stuck. Developers, please address the bugs.
All you do is build the jail/prison up. Its not quite like the ads. If your into that thing then youll love it. We wanted side games with it and a bit more explaining on how to do things. We gave it 3 stars for that.
Its a good game but we made it to the second map was almost done and had to reinstall it and we couldnt start where we left off.
Our game has been stuck for days on one task. Even if it was upgraded to the max, the task still says 9/10.
Cant get anywhere without watching ads.
This game is a lot of fun and we enjoy playing it, but there's a few bugs. We have multiple improvements that we've done and the timer shows zero but it won't complete them. Also the coming soon for a few different things is taking the fun out of if for us. We also hate with the pets how we keep getting the same l same rubber ducks. We have 50 rubber ducks. We wish there was a may to merge them and level them up. It's impossible to keep our pets happiness up when the hard mission is coming soon and the normal mission keeps giving us rubber ducks.
Cute game, but we keep running into major bugs and there doesnt appear to be any way to report them. Finally hit a progress ending bug, so we guess Im done. :(.
The ad made it look fun and honestly the reviews made us download it. However, after the initial set up all you do is update everything and ad new things. Thats it. Just push buttons to upgrade or add. That may be exciting for some people but its not enough to keep our interest. We gave it 2 stars because we like the idea of the game just not the actual gameplay if you can even call it that.
We love it and great game to play.
We love police and it is so cool.
We would like to see more game like this and we do enjoy playing and when this game will be update because we want get to next level on next one.
WOW!!!! Whats not to love??!! This game keeps you busy from the start, gets you arresting perps and sending them through registration then off to jail then off to prison, no step left untaken. The police officer pops up every time something new needs to happen other than that you run the show!! Arresting!! Booking!! Locking up!! Thats the way to make cold hard cash.
Everything is great. Nice work boss. You just have a bug in the research tree. Its the first upgrade to boost the Morale of your officers and its bugged out saying its complete, but the timer is still in a countdown scenario. Its literally showing oh you have 0 seconds left till completion and it wont finish the upgrade. Just a minor fix if you can please.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.38
- Size: 391.18 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: AR, BG, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: AI GAMES FZ LLC
Last updated: 5th October 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: AI GAMES FZ LLC