Prison Architect

Dive into Prison Architect, where managing your own correctional facility means balancing resources against riots and disease. Can you build the ultimate fortress and handle the hardened criminals?

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About the Game

Step into the challenging role of a penitentiary manager in Prison Architect, where containing the most hardened criminals is your ultimate task. Design and evolve your own custom-built correctional facility, ensuring it can withstand riots, disease outbreaks, and gang conflicts. Carefully balance your resources, or brace yourself for riots and outbreaks.

Strategically invest federal grants to combat disease outbreaks, gang activity, lawsuits, and more, optimizing every aspect of your prison. A secure and ethical prison hinges on the quality of its staff; strategically deploy armed guards, psychologists, doctors, lawyers, and informants to maintain order.

Here are some key features that define the Prison Architect game experience:

  • Tailor programs to each inmate's unique history, using specialized treatments and reform workshops to foster genuine rehabilitation.
  • Experience life on the other side in Escape Mode, and attempt a daring breakout from your own supermax creation.
  • Brave the creations of others in online mode!, test your skills by exploring one of 12000+ player-created prisons, each presenting new challenges and security flaws.
  • Unleash your creativity by expanding your empire with endless possibilities in Sandbox mode, where the only limit is your imagination.

Test your strategic planning skills and see if you can build the ultimate correctional fortress in Prison Architect. Start building today, and control every aspect of your personalized lockup.

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