Beat Cop Reviews

Beat Cop is ranked in the 44th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
No Recommendation / Blank
May 1, 2017

Like Police Quest meets Papers, Please on a grim day.

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65 / 100
May 10, 2017

Half enjoyable adventure, half clunky mess, Beat Cop is a talented rookie in need of a long talk with HR.

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5 / 10
Mar 12, 2019

Beat Cop is one perp that's best approached with caution.

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7 / 10
Mar 13, 2019

All in all, Beat Cop serves well as a Police sim, although that aspect of the game grows stale as time goes on.

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8 / 10
May 5, 2017

A wild game that manages to retain all the glamour of the 80's while being still funny and deep. Maybe it may have some technical flaws, but still works.

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6 / 10.0
Mar 27, 2019

Beat Cop is a relentless time management game where writing tickets and arresting perps is set against a background of sleaze and corruption.

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Unscored
Mar 28, 2017

I've played it for so damned long, and have just run out of patience with it, and absolutely do not care any more about the arc story. It's taken so long to go anywhere, crawling along every few days of play, and just isn't compelling at all.

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50 / 100
Apr 13, 2017

Beat Cop is meant to be a tribute to cop shows from the 1980s, complete with snarky dialogue and questionable characters. When it comes down to it, however, it's a stressful sim that's heavy on time management and largely unforgiving. There are multiple endings you could discover, but after several hours with the game it's hard to muster the patience for even one.

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7.6 / 10.0
Jun 11, 2017

Beat Cop is an intriguing and entertaining re-imagining of the police TV shows of the ’80s, with a clever design, some action and lot of choices for the player. There are always too many things to do, and too little time to do them, and as any real cop knows, boredom is part of the process.

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6 / 10
Mar 12, 2019

Beat Cop is a strong effort to create a compelling police-themed adventure.

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84 / 100
Mar 5, 2019

All in all, this is a great homage to 1980’s cop shows that shouldn’t be missed.

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7.5 / 10.0
Mar 14, 2019

Much like the setting that inspires it, Beat Cop is crass, dirty and morally reprehensible at times. Though it certainly isn't for everybody, there is a certain attraction that Beat Cop exudes which has you coming back, time and again, to its grimly framed world of corrupt cops, jobsworth toil and pressure-based strategy.

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60 / 100
Apr 5, 2017

Beat Cop drew its own chalk outline and willingly laid inside it.

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6 / 10
Jun 11, 2019

Beat Cop delivers the experience of a 1980s-style police action movie, with heavy doses of irony and unreal comedy added on top of it. The result is a game that is fun and a marvel to look at, even if some of its elements can get confusing and repetitive at times.

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6 / 10
Mar 13, 2019

Not quite an arresting adventure, but there's some cop genre fun to be had if you can stand the outdated attitudes.

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8.5 / 10.0
Apr 11, 2017

Sadly I didn't put much time into "Beat Cop". While the game is amazing in its detail and design, the game actually starts to feel like a job! I can attribute this mostly to my own taste and opinion. I can still appreciate some of the nuance this game offers. I think "Beat Cop" deserves an 8.5 for being strong enough to captivate anyone who craves good character development and witty dialogue.

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Impulsegamer
Scott De Lacy
Top Critic
5 / 5.0
Mar 14, 2019

Beat Cop is a game that still works and it works well!

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4 / 5.0
Mar 30, 2017

A few bugs aside, Beat Cop is a highly engrossing and addictive adventure, a cross between classic ’80s action and routine cop duty that makes for some extremely interesting gameplay as you get sucked in and even get attached to everyone in your little part of Brooklyn. Proper management and investigation skills are rewarded with satisfying results and advancements in various intriguing narratives, and the gameplay is the kind that’s enjoyably simple to learn and fun to work with.

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GameSpace
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
Apr 4, 2017

As another beat draws to a close, I take a break to wrap up this review. I’m hooked on this simple, but loveable title. While I’m still itching for a realistic police title, I’m pleased with how more games about law enforcement fiction are appearing in the last year or so, and Beat Cop sits at the top of the pile in terms of enjoyment.

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8 / 10.0
Apr 11, 2017

Beat Cop is a quiet little indie game and punches way above its weight in terms of presentation, theme, and fun.

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