Contraband Police

First-person border checkpoint simulation with searches, chases, and shootouts

Crazy Rocks · Published by PlayWay S.A. · Released Mar 8, 2023

Action Adventure Simulation

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 95% of 26K
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 93% of 267 in 30 days
Playing now: 152; peak 24h 158
Steam Deck: Verified
Last update: 10 months ago; Nov 20, 2025

Free demo available, 13 playing it now: get the demo.

Metacritic: 77/100 (critic reviews)

What is Contraband Police?

Set in 1981, this single-player first-person simulation casts you as a trainee border officer at a mountain checkpoint in the Acarist People's Republic. In an open world, you inspect documents and vehicles, uncover contraband, manage and upgrade the post, chase smugglers, and fight armed attacks as violence at the border escalates.

For you if...

+you enjoy detailed document checks and vehicle searches
+you want management mixed with driving and gunfights
+you want a single-player story with consequential choices

Not for you if...

−you only want uninterrupted checkpoint inspection shifts
−you dislike repetitive paperwork and careful discrepancy spotting
−you want multiplayer rather than a solo campaign

What players say

95% of 25,789 reviews are positive · 93% of 267 in the last 30 days

Players most often praise the document-checking and vehicle-search loop, along with the mix of chases, upgrades, and story choices. They commonly complain that inspections become repetitive, forced driving and raids interrupt the core loop, and bugs can break objectives or campaign progress; some also criticize vehicle handling and the limited autosave system.

Screenshots and trailer

Contraband Police system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 @ 3.3 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.2 GHz or equivalent
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or AMD RX 560 (3GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better)
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Storage: 12 GB available space
DirectX: Version 11

OS: Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
Processor: Intel Core i7-9700 @ 3.6 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 @ 3.6 GHz or equivalent
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 (6GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better)
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Storage: 12 GB available space
DirectX: Version 11

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 93
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing

Steam Deck: Verified

All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Shows Steam Deck controller icons
In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Single-player

Languages

Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Ukrainian.