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.

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

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

Editions

Add-Ons

Epic Player Ratings

Captured from players in the Epic Games ecosystem.
4.6
This game is
Extremely Fun
This game is
Highly Recommended
This game is
Great for Beginners
This game has
Quickly Understood Controls
This game is
Relaxing
This game has
Amazing Storytelling

Ratings

  • 81%
    Critics Recommend
  • 80
    Top Critic Average
  • Strong
    OpenCritic Rating
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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

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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