Prison Architect
4.6
Extremely Fun
Highly Recommended
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.
Genres
Features
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
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Epic Player Ratings
Captured from players in the Epic Games ecosystem.
4.6
This game is
Extremely FunThis game is
Highly RecommendedThis game is
Great for BeginnersThis game has
Quickly Understood ControlsThis game is
RelaxingThis game has
Amazing StorytellingRatings
- 81%Critics Recommend
- 80Top Critic Average
- StrongOpenCritic Rating
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Specifications
Minimum
Recommended
OSWindows 7
OSWindows 8
ProcessorIntel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher
ProcessorIntel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher
Memory6 GB
Memory6 GB
Windows Storage400 MB
GraphicsNvidia 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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