| Contraband Police | |
| Developer: | Crazy Rocks Studios |
| Publisher: | PlayWay |
| Released: | March 8, 2023 |
| Platform: | Microsoft Windows |
| Genre: | Puzzle, Simulation |
| Modes: | Single-player |
| Engine: | Unity[1] |
Contraband Police is a video game developed by Crazy Rocks Studios and published by PlayWay, released in March 2023. Two years prior a demo version, called Contraband Police: Prologue was published.
The premise of the game is working as a border guard and head of the border post, in a fictional communist country called Acaristan in 1979. It seems to be inspired by the popular video game Papers, Please, which has a similar premise.
The player performs the duties of a border control agent. The player is responsible for controlling entrants, comparing passports and other documentation, and rejecting entrants with improper documentation.[2] An endless mode has been added in March 2024 as a part of the Anniversary Update.
Contraband Police was positively received on release, with Metacritic aggregating reviews as "generally favorable" out of 10 critic reviews.[3]
The entire marketing and production budget of two million Polish złoty was earned back in sales within just two days after release.[4] In the first month since its release, the game's developer announced that it had surpassed 250,000 units sold.[5] The game quickly reached further milestones,[6] [7] [8] [9] reaching around 800 thousand copies sold and $10 million in net revenue after the first year.[10]