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2025 · Crime · Detective · Sandbox

How long isThe Precinct?

by Fallen Tree Games Ltd

8.5 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 4 hours and 15 hours

A brick wall partway in: one story step stops 50 in 100 of the players who launched it.

Does The Precinct hold up?

Holds steady

Do the first two hours of The Precinct tell you?

In the first two hours71%recommend it

After that89%recommend it

15 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 8.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4 hours and 15 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 9,570 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 86% and 93% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

10% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 71% of those recommend it. After the window, 89% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 77% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 6 hours in.

When would you get there?

9days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 8.5 hours on Thursday, October 29.

Half of its reviewers had played between 4 and 15 hours: Oct 24 to Nov 4 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in The Precinct?

The filter

Big Trouble in Chinatown

50 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Cleaning the Streets and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Thrown in the Deep EndComplete your first shift for ACPD.−694% hold it
  3. Cleaning the StreetsTake down the August Gang.−1381% hold it
  4. Big Trouble in ChinatownTake down the Crimson Serpents.Filtered −5031% hold it
  5. Unlucky, PunkTake down the Jawheads.−724% hold it
  6. Partner in LawHave Kelly save you from Warehouse Six.−321% hold it
  7. The Secrets of the ACPDComplete the main story.21% hold it
How this is counted

94% of the players who launched The Precinct hold Thrown in the Deep End, its first story achievement on Steam, and 21% hold The Secrets of the ACPD, its last. The steepest drop comes between Cleaning the Streets (81%) and Big Trouble in Chinatown (31%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is The Precinct worth it?

Is The Precinct worth it? Mostly.

  • Pricey per hour

    A typical detective game gives 1.6× the hours for the money

  • Liked

    89% recommend it after the refund windowmost detective games: 92%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $29.99, the typical player's 8.5 hours come to $3.53 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 89% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $3.53 an hour, The Precinct costs more per hour than 74 of 90 detective games here: the typical one of 90 detective games here charges $2.16.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (detective games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like The Precinct?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Precinct, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Precinct would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

What did people here do with The Precinct?

  • 1 in 3,480

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like The Precinct

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How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.