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* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress "Pandemonium" was all a conspiracy started by the head of miniFACT as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. If you discover these through conversations during your playthrough, the Constable declares the miniFACT Arbiter a threat and proceeds to lock down miniFACT HQ to storm it.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It TheManBehindTheMan: It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist [[spoiler:terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress "Pandemonium" was all a conspiracy started by the head of miniFACT as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. If you discover these through conversations during your playthrough, the Constable declares the miniFACT Arbiter a threat and proceeds to lock down miniFACT HQ to storm it.]]

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* FinalDeath: You can defibrilate and bring yourself back to life as long as you have remaining suit integrity to do so (your suit integrity gradually decreases each time you take damage, but reviving yourself will take a big chunk off it). If your suit integrity is fully depleted when you lose all your health, however, you will die and have to start the game from the beginning.



* [[spoiler:OminousFloatingCastle]]: [[spoiler:The day's events lead up to a final confrontation with the terrorist leader Incognito aboard "Pandemonium", a floating building tower designed for mass destruction using its many cannons on its sides.]]

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* [[spoiler:OminousFloatingCastle]]: [[spoiler:The OminousFloatingCastle: The day's events lead up to a final confrontation [[spoiler:confrontation with the terrorist leader Incognito aboard "Pandemonium", "Pandemonium"]], a floating building tower designed [[spoiler:designed for mass destruction using its many cannons on its sides.]]]]
* OutOfContinues: You can defibrilate and bring yourself back to life as long as you have remaining suit integrity to do so (your suit integrity gradually decreases each time you take damage, but reviving yourself will take a big chunk off it). If your suit integrity is fully depleted when you lose all your health, however, you will die and have to start the game from the beginning.
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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Can be averted depending on the choice of answers during communication sequences.

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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Can be averted for the Constable depending on the choice of answers during communication sequences.



* LifeMeter: Perps have three gauges: Health, Stamina, and Resolve. Depleting Health kills the perp, depleting Stamina knocks them out, and depleting Resolve forces them to surrender.

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* LifeMeter: Perps have three gauges: Health, Stamina, and Resolve. Depleting Health kills the perp, depleting Stamina knocks them out, and depleting Resolve forces them to surrender. Surrendered perps could still be knocked out and knocked out perps could still be killed, though the game would penalize you by readjusting the earned requisition points with each perp's latest condition.



* TimedMission: You have twenty four hours to thwart the terrorist plot.

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* TimedMission: You have twenty four hours (in-game time) to thwart resolve the terrorist plot.bomb threat.
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* EndlessGame: Unlocked after beating the game with the good ending.

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* EndlessGame: Unlocked after beating the game with while surviving through to the good ending.end.



* GoldenEnding: In addition to stopping the bomb threat and [[spoiler:surviving the assault on Pandemonium]], [[spoiler:getting all the crucial information tracing the day's events back to miniFACT will give you one final mission storming the HQ and dealing swift justice to the very one who started all of this.]]

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* GoldenEnding: In addition to stopping the bomb threat and [[spoiler:surviving the assault on Pandemonium]], [[spoiler:getting all the crucial information tracing the day's events back to miniFACT will give you the option for one final mission storming the to lock down miniFACT HQ and dealing swift deal justice to the very one who started all of this.]]



* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress "Pandemonium" was all a conspiracy started by the head of miniFACT as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. If you discover these through conversations during your playthrough, the Constable doesn't take this knowledge well and ultimately takes matters into his own hands.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress "Pandemonium" was all a conspiracy started by the head of miniFACT as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. If you discover these through conversations during your playthrough, the Constable doesn't take this knowledge well declares the miniFACT Arbiter a threat and ultimately takes matters into his own hands.proceeds to lock down miniFACT HQ to storm it.]]



* [[spoiler:OminousFloatingCastle]]: [[spoiler:The day's events lead up to a final confrontation with the terrorist leader Incognito aboard "Pandemonium", a floating building tower armed with cannons on its sides.]]

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* [[spoiler:OminousFloatingCastle]]: [[spoiler:The day's events lead up to a final confrontation with the terrorist leader Incognito aboard "Pandemonium", a floating building tower armed with designed for mass destruction using its many cannons on its sides.]]



* [[spoiler:SelfDestructMechanism]]: [[spoiler:Disabling all the cores of the flying building fortress Pandemonium will trigger a self-destruct countdown sequence. Failure to escape in your police cruiser will result in the Constable being killed along with it.]]

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* [[spoiler:SelfDestructMechanism]]: [[spoiler:Disabling all the cores of the flying building fortress Pandemonium will trigger a self-destruct countdown sequence. Failure to escape in reach your police cruiser to escape will result in the Constable being killed along with it.]]



* StopOrIWillShoot: Shouting down perps can force them to surrender. However, more hardened perps will need to have their Health and/or Stamina depleted to a certain level before their resolve can be reduced this way.

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* StopOrIWillShoot: Shouting down perps can force them to surrender. However, more hardened perps will need to have their Health and/or Stamina depleted to a certain level before their resolve can be reduced this way.way (alternatively, firing your weapons loudly or near them may also reduce their resolve).
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* GoldenEnding: In addition to stopping the bomb threat and [[spoiler:surviving the assault on Pandemonium]], [[spoiler:getting all the crucial information tracing the day's events back to MiniFACT will give you one final mission storming the HQ and dealing swift justice to the very one who started all of this.]]

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* GoldenEnding: In addition to stopping the bomb threat and [[spoiler:surviving the assault on Pandemonium]], [[spoiler:getting all the crucial information tracing the day's events back to MiniFACT miniFACT will give you one final mission storming the HQ and dealing swift justice to the very one who started all of this.]]



* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress "Pandemonium" was all a conspiracy started by the head of Minilaw as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. If you discover these through conversations during your playthrough, the Constable doesn't take this knowledge well and ultimately takes matters into his own hands.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress "Pandemonium" was all a conspiracy started by the head of Minilaw miniFACT as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. If you discover these through conversations during your playthrough, the Constable doesn't take this knowledge well and ultimately takes matters into his own hands.]]
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* GoldenEnding: In addition to stopping the bomb threat and [[spoiler:surviving the assault on Pandemonium]], [[spoiler:getting all the crucial information tracing the day's events back to MiniFACT will give you one final mission storming the HQ and dealing swift justice to the very one who started all of this.]]


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* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:Pandemonium, a flying building block fortress equipped with cannons on its side designed to lay siege to New Babel.]] [[spoiler:However, digging up enough dirt on today's events prior to this will yield one more stage to end the game with its full ending.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress was all a conspiracy started by the head of Minilaw as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. The Constable doesn't take this knowledge well and ultimately takes matters into his own hands.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress "Pandemonium" was all a conspiracy started by the head of Minilaw as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. The If you discover these through conversations during your playthrough, the Constable doesn't take this knowledge well and ultimately takes matters into his own hands.]]



* [[spoiler:OminousFloatingCastle]]: [[spoiler:The day's events lead up to a final confrontation with the terrorist leader Incognito in a floating building tower armed with cannons.]]

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* [[spoiler:OminousFloatingCastle]]: [[spoiler:The day's events lead up to a final confrontation with the terrorist leader Incognito in aboard "Pandemonium", a floating building tower armed with cannons.cannons on its sides.]]


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* [[spoiler:SelfDestructMechanism]]: [[spoiler:Disabling all the cores of the flying building fortress Pandemonium will trigger a self-destruct countdown sequence. Failure to escape in your police cruiser will result in the Constable being killed along with it.]]
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* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress was all a conspiracy started by the head of Minilaw as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. The Constable doesn't take it well.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress was all a conspiracy started by the head of Minilaw as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. The Constable doesn't take it well.this knowledge well and ultimately takes matters into his own hands.]]
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* FinalDeath: You can deliberate yourself back to life as long as you have remaining suit integrity to do so. If your suit integrity is fully depleted when you lose all your health, however, you will die and have to start the game from the beginning.

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* CoolCar: The Constable's hover patrol car is this.


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* FutureFoodIsArtificial: With the majority of the world uninhabitable and any animals treated as endangered species, this is inevitable.

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* FinalDeath: You can revive yourself so long as you have remaining suit integrity to do so. If your suit integrity is fully depleted when you lose all your health, however, you will die and have to start the game from the beginning.

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* FinalDeath: You can revive deliberate yourself so back to life as long as you have remaining suit integrity to do so. If your suit integrity is fully depleted when you lose all your health, however, you will die and have to start the game from the beginning.



* TakeCover: You, and the perps, can take cover behind any appropriate barrier.

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* TakeCover: You, and the perps, can take cover behind any appropriate barrier.barrier or hiding spot.
* ThereWasADoor: The alternative to opening locked doors in buildings using the puzzle mechanic is to simply fire your weapons or use melee attacks to force them open.



* WhatTheHellHero: [=miniFACT=] will not hesitate to chew you out if you kill a perp you are supposed to take in alive

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* WhatTheHellHero: [=miniFACT=] will not hesitate to chew you out if you kill a perp you are supposed to take in alivealive.
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* EndlessGame: Unlocked after beating the game with the good ending.


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* ShoutOut:
** Some of the Constable's shouted lines are these. Some examples include [[Film/TheTerminator "Nice night for a walk."]] and [[Film/DirtyHarry "Do you feel lucky, punk?"]].
** The satirical TV news cutscenes are a homage of similar sequences in ''Film/RoboCop1987''.
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* CoolGun: The Constable's main weapon of choice is this, and is capable of being fitted with different bullets and a secondary fire option including a grenade launcher and shotgun. As you progress in the game, you can also pick up barrel modifications which improve your primary fire such as higher rate-of-fire and noise suppression.


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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Can be averted depending on the choice of answers during communication sequences.


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* SuperCop: The Constable; comes part and parcel being a character inspired by Robocop and Judge Dredd.
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* ArtificialMeat: As a {{Crapsack World}}, meat substitutes known as Synthmeat are mentioned now and then, and is part of the in-universe lexicon.


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* GreaterScopeVillain: The majority of the game involves confronting gangs and criminal organizations during your search for clues regarding the bomb threat. [[spoiler:As you make progress, you eventually learn that this was orchestrated by a terrorist leader which only made use of said gangs,]] [[spoiler:who itself is a creation of the very organization the Constable works for.]]
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* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed that the creation of terrorist leader Incognito, the bomb threat, and the floating building fortress was all a conspiracy started by the head of Minilaw as an attempt to expose all the criminal organizations in New Babel. The Constable doesn't take it well.]]


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* [[spoiler:OminousFloatingCastle]]: [[spoiler:The day's events lead up to a final confrontation with the terrorist leader Incognito in a floating building tower armed with cannons.]]
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The game is currently available on Steam Early Access.

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The game is currently available was first released on Steam Early Access.
Access in early 2016, and had its full release on January 2020.



* {{Cyborg}}: That would be you, as the Constable.

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* {{Cyborg}}: That would be you, as the Constable. Enemy perps and people you communicate with may also have body augments ranging from cybernetic implants to outright full mechanical body conversions.



* FinalDeath: You can revive yourself so long as you have the power in your suit to do so. If you have no more spare power in your suit, however, you will die and have to start the game from the beginning.

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* FinalDeath: You can revive yourself so long as you have the power in your remaining suit integrity to do so. If you have no more spare power in your suit, suit integrity is fully depleted when you lose all your health, however, you will die and have to start the game from the beginning.



* StopOrIWillShoot: Shouting down criminals can force them to surrender.

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* StopOrIWillShoot: Shouting down criminals perps can force them to surrender.surrender. However, more hardened perps will need to have their Health and/or Stamina depleted to a certain level before their resolve can be reduced this way.
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* RedShirt: The basic miniLAW guards that occasionally accompany you on missions. With no armor and a weak melee attack, they’re only good for distractions and getting slaughtered.
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''[=miniLAW=]: Ministry of Law'' is a {{Retreaux}}-style action game developed by Lasso Games for Windows PC. Taking inspiration from dystopian cyberpunk police stories such as ''Film/{{Robocop}}'' and ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', ''[=miniLAW=]'' places you in the role of the Constable, a cybernetically enhanced law enforcement agent in the city of New Babel. As the last bastion of humanity after a devastating world war, you are to protect New Babel using any means necessary. When terrorists threaten to destroy New Babel with a powerful bomb, you must use your advanced weaponry, detective skills, and cybernetic power suit to suss out the terrorists and stop their plot while maintaining order in the city.

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''[=miniLAW=]: Ministry of Law'' is a {{Retreaux}}-style action game developed by Lasso Games for Windows PC. Taking inspiration from dystopian cyberpunk police stories such as ''Film/{{Robocop}}'' ''Film/RoboCop1987'' and ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', ''[=miniLAW=]'' places you in the role of the Constable, a cybernetically enhanced law enforcement agent in the city of New Babel. As the last bastion of humanity after a devastating world war, you are to protect New Babel using any means necessary. When terrorists threaten to destroy New Babel with a powerful bomb, you must use your advanced weaponry, detective skills, and cybernetic power suit to suss out the terrorists and stop their plot while maintaining order in the city.
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** Karate Master: Low accuracy, but melee strikes are more powerful.
** Wimpy Voice: All of your stats suck, as well as your shouting range.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Crimes that you can report to include, but are not limited to: robbery, assault, homicide, and loitering.
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* LifeGauge: Perps have three gauges: Health, Stamina, and Resolve. Depleting Health kills the perp, depleting Stamina knocks them out, and depleting Resolve forces them to surrender.

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* LifeGauge: LifeMeter: Perps have three gauges: Health, Stamina, and Resolve. Depleting Health kills the perp, depleting Stamina knocks them out, and depleting Resolve forces them to surrender.
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* LifeGauge: Perps have three gauges: Health, Stamina, and Resolve. Depleting Health kills the perp, depleting Stamina knocks them out, and depleting Resolve forces them to surrender.
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-->'''JERICHO LEVEL EMERGENCY DECLARED\\

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-->'''JERICHO ->'''JERICHO LEVEL EMERGENCY DECLARED\\
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* FinalDeath: You can revive yourself so long as you have the power in your suit to do so. If you have no more spare power in your suit, however, you will die and have to start the game from the beginning.
* InterfaceScrew: As you take damage, the screen and HUD become increasingly distorted. And that's before going into hackers that screw with your systems and controls.
* MultipleChoicePast: You are given a choice of three randomly selected backstories to determine your starting capabilities. A few examples include:
** Grease Monkey: Your car starts off upgraded, but your accuracy is middling.
** Soft Spoken: The range of your shouts is reduced, but enemies will surrender more easily
** Master Detective: Perps will drop clues more often, but your reputation with all criminal factions is less favorable.
** Daredevil: Increased movement speed at the expense of armor integrity.
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* CrapsackWorld: 95% of the Earth is an uninhabitable wasteland, and the last 5% consists of a single MegaCity ruled by a totalitarian government.


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* {{Dystopia}}
* NintendoHard


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* TimedMission: You have twenty four hours to thwart the terrorist plot.
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GOOD LUCK CONSTABLE

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GOOD LUCK CONSTABLE
CONSTABLE'''
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MINIPOST COMPROMISED IN TERRORIST BROADCAST
NO POSSIBILITY OF REDACTING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE

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MINIPOST COMPROMISED IN TERRORIST BROADCAST
BROADCAST\\
NO POSSIBILITY OF REDACTING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGEKNOWLEDGE\\
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/JudgeDredd You are the law]]]]

-->'''JERICHO LEVEL EMERGENCY DECLARED\\
WIDESPREAD PANIC THROUGHOUT ALL DISTRICTS OF THE CITY\\
MINIPOST COMPROMISED IN TERRORIST BROADCAST
NO POSSIBILITY OF REDACTING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
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LOCATE AND NEUTRALIZE THREAT\\
EXTREME SANCTIONS AUTHORIZED\\
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THE CITY IS COUNTING ON YOU\\
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GOOD LUCK CONSTABLE

''[=miniLAW=]: Ministry of Law'' is a {{Retreaux}}-style action game developed by Lasso Games for Windows PC. Taking inspiration from dystopian cyberpunk police stories such as ''Film/{{Robocop}}'' and ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', ''[=miniLAW=]'' places you in the role of the Constable, a cybernetically enhanced law enforcement agent in the city of New Babel. As the last bastion of humanity after a devastating world war, you are to protect New Babel using any means necessary. When terrorists threaten to destroy New Babel with a powerful bomb, you must use your advanced weaponry, detective skills, and cybernetic power suit to suss out the terrorists and stop their plot while maintaining order in the city.

The game is currently available on Steam Early Access.

!!This game contains examples of the following

* {{Cyborg}}: That would be you, as the Constable.
* StopOrIWillShoot: Shouting down criminals can force them to surrender.
* TakeCover: You, and the perps, can take cover behind any appropriate barrier.
* WhatTheHellHero: [=miniFACT=] will not hesitate to chew you out if you kill a perp you are supposed to take in alive

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