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.

Available Achievements

Throw The Book At Them
100 XP
Crowd Control
40 XP
Don't Put Me In The Dark
40 XP
Wait and Hope
40 XP
Get Busy Living
60 XP

Prison Architect Editions

Prison Architect DLC & Add-Ons

Epic Player Ratings

Captured from players in the Epic Games ecosystem.

4.6

This game is

Great for Beginners

This game is

Relaxing

This game has

Diverse Characters

This game is

Extremely Fun

This game is

Highly Recommended

This game has

Quickly Understood Controls

Prison Architect Ratings & Reviews

PC Gamer

by Christopher Livingston

87 / 100

A complex, challenging, and grimly satisfying simulator.

Game Informer

by Joe Juba

8 / 10

Great moments emerge naturally from well-made simulations, and Prison Architect has no shortage

IGN

by Richard Cobbett

8.3 / 10

Prison Architect is one of the most in-depth, satisfying builder games in ages, if you can get past the initiation.

Reviews provided by OpenCritic

Prison Architect System Requirements

Minimum

Recommended

OS

Windows 7

OS

Windows 8

Processor

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

Processor

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

Memory

6 GB

Memory

6 GB

Windows Storage

400 MB

Graphics

Nvidia 8600 / Radeon equivalent (2009 era)

Languages Supported

  • AUDIO: English

  • TEXT: English, Chinese - Simplified, Dutch, French, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Swedish, Turkish

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