Prison Architect

4.6
  • Great for Beginners
  • Relaxing

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.

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.

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.

Base Game
$29.99
Epic RewardsEarn 5% back
Refund TypeSelf-Refundable
DeveloperDouble Eleven
Publisher
Paradox Interactive
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Prison Architect Editions

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.

$29.99
Prison Architect - Total Lockdown Bundle

Get everything you need to run a top-notch correctional facility. Immerse yourself in the prison life with the base game, the original soundtrack + digital artbook, and a collection of Prison Architect expansions.

$79.99

Prison Architect DLC & Add-Ons

Prison Architect - Jungle Pack

Jungle Pack is an aesthetic pack that sets your compound in the deep and lush tropical forest. Far from civilization, Wardens will need to manage their inmates while dealing with the dangers of nature.

$2.99
Prison Architect - Future Tech Pack

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.

$2.99
Prison Architect - Undead

Undead brings a whole new scenario to Prison Architect: one where the only objective is to survive! With this new, spooky, expansion wardens will have to fight off the undead attacks to save their inmates and free the prison from an unprecedented catastrophe.

$2.99
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Prison Architect Ratings & Reviews

78%
Critics Recommend
80
Top Critic Average
Strong
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Prison Architect System Requirements

Minimum

OS version

Windows 7

CPU

Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher

Memory

6 GB

Windows Storage

400 MB

GPU

Nvidia 8600 / Radeon equivalent (2009 era)

Recommended

OS version

Windows 8

CPU

Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher

Memory

6 GB

GPU

Nvidia 8600 / Radeon equivalent (2009 era)

Languages Supported

Audio:
  • English
Text:
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Russian
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

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