Prison Architect
Introversion Software · 2015 · Simulation, Building, Sandbox, Base Building, Colony Sim
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About Prison Architect
Build and manage your own prison empire, balancing inmate welfare with security while handling riots, escapes, and emergencies across a deep simulation. Design custom facilities, run rehabilitation programs, and compete in escape challenges or explore thousands of player-created prisons online.
Welcome Wardens!
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Key Features:
Customized Confinement
Allocate resources to optimize your compound, but don’t restrict the flow of the crowd lest you encounter a flood, fire, fight, or full-blown riot.
Invest and Innovate
Tap federal money with grant applications & direct your funds to combat disease, gang activity, litigation, and more!
Management and Muscle
Ensure your prison is *mostly* ethical and safe with top-notch staff including armed guards, psychologists, doctors, lawyers and snitches.
Detention by Design
Each prisoner’s criminal history requires custom treatment programs, labor schedules, and reform workshops.
Lockdown Showdown
Attempt a high-stakes escape of your own supermax prison in Escape Mode, or try Online mode to test one of 12,000 player-created prisons. Expand your empire limitlessly in Sandbox mode.
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 10 of 12 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).
-50%Prison Architect - Aficionado
-50%Prison Architect - Future Tech Pack
-50%Prison Architect - Jungle Pack
-50%Prison Architect - Undead
-50%Prison Architect - Gangs
-50%Prison Architect - Psych Ward: Warden's Edition
-50%Prison Architect - Second Chances
-50%Prison Architect - Going Green
-50%Prison Architect - Island Bound
-50%Prison Architect - Perfect Storm
Free to playPrison Architect - Cleared For Transfer
Free to playPrison Architect - Free For Life
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Prison Architect is praised as an engaging and entertaining management sim that challenges players to balance security, prisoner welfare, staff needs, and budgets across varied prison designs with good replay value. Players enjoy the emergent humor that comes from mismanagement and chaos, though some report technical issues with resolution and performance.
So fun to get about 100 prisoners to pay off my debt and then starve them all to death. (My prisoner execution failed)
You can put prisoners in terrible conditions so they attack you, then you can nearly kill them
great time killer
WOW
Prison Architect is one of the most entertaining management games I've played. Building and running your own prison is much more challenging than it sounds because you have to think about security, prisoner needs, staff management, and your budget all at the same time. I like that every prison feels different, and unexpected situations like riots or escape attempts keep the gameplay exciting. Even when things go completely wrong, it's usually more funny than frustrating. The game has a lot of replay value, and I always find myself wanting to start a new prison with a better layout.
Oh my God, did I goon too much or is the resolution just god awful now?
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