About Prison Architect
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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.
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How long does it take to beat Prison Architect?
The main story of Prison Architect takes approximately 16.7 hours to complete. Total completion time may vary depending on playstyle and difficulty.
What genre is Prison Architect?
Prison Architect is a Strategy, Indie, Simulation game, released in 2015.
Is Prison Architect worth playing?
Prison Architect is a strategy game from 2015. Fans of this game often enjoy titles like Dwarf Fortress, Against the Storm, Academia: School Simulator. You can add it to your backlog on nxto.app to track it.
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