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Police Quest: SWAT

Yosemite Entertainment · Activision · 2016-12-15

SteamGOG

ActionSimulationStrategy

Franchise: Police Quest · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Side view

Releases: Sep 30, 1995 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 30, 1995 (DOS), Dec 01, 1995 (Mac)

It's all in a day's work for members of the most elite force in crime fighting history.

55%
positive of 65 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
37/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
$3.89
steam price (US)
Police Quest: SWAT, alternatively known as Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: SWAT or Police Quest 5: SWAT, is a 1995 graphic adventure educational video game developed and published by Sierra On-Line for DOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS. It is the fifth installment in the Police Quest series and the first installment in the SWAT subseries. The game follows a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Metropolitan Division SWAT team as they train to handle high-risk criminal incidents across Los Angeles.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 24,813 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 65 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 (2016-12-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320162026Week of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$3.592016-12-162026-10-012016-12-16 — best price $3.592017-07-05 — best price $5.992017-12-21 — best price $4.792018-07-05 — best price $5.992018-12-20 — best price $4.792019-02-12 — 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 $5.992022-06-23 — 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 $3.892026-09-17 — best price $5.992026-10-01 — best price $3.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

FMVActionClassicStrategySimulation

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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