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Police Quest: SWAT 2 cover art

Police Quest: SWAT 2

Yosemite Entertainment · Sierra · 2017-04-18

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SimulationStrategy

Franchise: Police Quest · Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 30, 1998 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Keep the peace or wreck havoc on the streets of LA.

79%
positive of 114 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.89
steam price (US)
Police Quest: SWAT 2 (stylized as SWAT2) is a 1998 real-time tactics video game developed by Yosemite Entertainment and published by Sierra FX (both studios of Sierra On-Line) exclusively for Microsoft Windows. It is the sixth installment in the Police Quest series and the second installment in the SWAT subseries. The game follows the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Metropolitan Division SWAT team as they clash with a domestic terrorist militia launching attacks across Los Angeles.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 65% of 7,465 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.9k–6.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 114 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.89-35%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.59 at Steam (2017-04-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days · $0.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420172026Week of 2017-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$3.592017-04-192026-09-032017-04-19 — best price $3.592017-07-05 — best price $5.992017-12-21 — best price $4.792018-07-05 — best price $5.992018-12-21 — best price $4.492019-02-11 — best price $5.992019-11-07 — best price $3.892019-12-03 — best price $5.992020-01-23 — best price $3.892020-07-09 — best price $5.992020-12-22 — best price $3.892021-02-15 — best price $5.992021-11-24 — best price $3.892022-01-05 — best price $5.992022-06-24 — best price $3.892022-09-05 — best price $5.992022-12-22 — best price $3.892023-03-23 — best price $5.992023-06-29 — best price $3.892023-07-31 — best price $5.992023-11-15 — best price $3.892023-11-28 — best price $5.992024-02-06 — best price $3.892024-03-21 — best price $5.992024-06-01 — best price $3.892024-07-11 — best price $5.992024-09-17 — best price $3.892024-12-04 — best price $5.992025-02-10 — best price $3.892025-03-20 — best price $5.992025-05-29 — best price $3.892025-07-10 — best price $5.992025-09-29 — best price $3.892025-12-03 — best price $5.992026-02-09 — best price $3.892026-03-26 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $3.892026-09-03 — best price $3.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

ClassicStrategyTacticalSimulationVillain Protagonist

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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