Prison Architect

doesn't get to the main menu without a black screen. Even with reinstalling and verifying integrity of files.

I can't even start a game anymore because the menu doesn't line up with my mouse and nothing responds. Really disappointing because a few years ago it used to be a pretty good game.

Gamebreaking bug made me quit. Otherwise a great game with a lot of potential. Some of the mods come in handy

This game is actually so peak, at the start I was a bum prison warden putting people only in dorms (please don't do this) and getting caught in riots to a grizzled war veteran who actually learned from their mistakes and executing death row prisoners while their family watches lol.

Great game for spending leisure time and trying out different designs of prisons, it's a lot of fun!

Been playing Prison Architect or years. Decided to revisit since I noticed some new DLCs. Always very immersive and fun.

The game is insanely bugged. It's been bugged since a few years back when I last went to play it and gave up due to the bugs. Loaded it up today since I was feeling it and literally can't change the resolution of the game without it crashing. Literally unplayable.

i watched a good amount of videos on this game thinking this seems fun but i personally don't find it enjoyable but thats just my opinion on the matter

my game is completely bugged to the point where i cannot open the game, and i am forever stuck playing this. (i have restarted my computer many times, as it has been doing this for a whole week) I am not playing prison architect, im not playing anything. my computer is on or im not playing a steam game right now, any help also? (i currently have 168 hours from this bug but my steam review says 71)

It is a good good game and well worth the price if it is on sale (I would buy the full bundle, I got it for 15 USD).

Very good game, despite some weird bugs and just random stuff that should be fixed. Overall 4/5.

This game still has the same game breaking bugs from 5 years ago which is not surprising for paradox

i like this game. controls are hard at first but get easier. also alot of google responses

This is a really fun management game. The base game is really fun! I designed many prisons and had many mistakes.... All the factors this game has in controlling your prison is really great!
Complaint? Sometimes steam will think you're still playing the game even when you are not. To those facing this problem just simply use task manager and restart steam. Works every time I have this bug.

I put a ton of hours into this game and watched it change hands and get tossed in the back of the closet like I toss my prisoners into solitary.

Tl;dr - Don't buy. Just wait for the sequel if you're interested.

This game has unfortunately been abandoned by the devs and they don't seem to care about fixing any of the bugs, performance, or AI pathing issues. I had my fun with it, and re-downloaded recently to relive some of that.

If your prison exceeds around 200 inmates, there is a significant framerate drop, which is somewhat fixed by changing all in-game graphics settings to potato. But if you want to try getting up to 500 or more, apparently you need a NASA computer.

There's also the super fun off-setting of the mouse if you use anything other than fullscreen!

If you play with psyc ward, there is NO WAY to properly care for those inmates because orderlies won't do their job. They stand in one spot and act useless!

I'm sure there's other bugs in the game, but I literally can't play it.

Divorcing this game now, hopefully they get their life together but I'm not holding out for hope here.

Downloaded the game, now had a launcher installed (didn't not notice this would happen) and read the TOS. Absolute uninstall, was looking forward to playing.

Horribly buggy on Mac. There seems to be an offset on the mouse position which means your cursor appears in a completely different place on the screen than where you're actually clicking. I also tried playing on Steam Deck but the performance is so bad that the game is unplayable. It's a shame because it looks like a great concept, just poorly executed unfortunately.

Broken buggy mess. As others have mentioned, this game has numerous AI and mechanics managing prisoner needs that simply don't work, and are remarkably buggy and game ruining. Developer doesn't care about fixing bugs. Don't support this broken mess.

My gameplay in 6 steps:
1. Build a prison
2. Sell it
3. Build a new prison
4. Accept the legend
5. He's destroy new prison
6. Quit

12 Legends/10

>Be me
>Today
>Build a prison where a single cell that can hold up to 70 Prisoners at a time
>Only beds, one toilet
>People suffering, but i dont care
>More prisoners keep coming
>Squish them all into cells
>Riots are threatened
>I tell the guards to be as brutal as possible
>Noriots.jpg
>Inmates get killed
>Dontcare.png
>Leave Prison
>Get Home and Install game
>10/10

too expensive if theres no sale for t hat price for that game not rec but if its cheaper its def rec

Banger of a game, SHAKEDOWNNN BOIIIS
Can't wait for the 2nd game

Extremely intrusive EULA by Paradox. I played this a lot back in 2015 and wanted to come back to it, but then I saw the Paradox launcher and their EULA. Now I have to say goodbye to this game. Never gonna play it as long as this EULA is in effect. I payed for this game a decade ago and now I can't play it unless I agree to let you spy on me. Terrible.

"Paradox may collect information from you when you use the Game. Such information includes your SteamID, computer configuration, gameplay behavior and progress, browser type, platform type and software usage. This information is gathered periodically"

Oh, and they also cut out content that was already in the game and now charges for it as DLC instead. Not going to buy any Paradox products from now on.

If you are looking for a management game that is set apart from the others, this is it. Prepare to spend several hours in this management sand-box!

They ruined the game with a useless Paradox launcher and it does not work on mac anymore. I would not have bought it if I knew they were going to do this

Great with mods, base game is a bit buggy though. Unfortunately the game has been discontinued.

So much dlc, but basic functionality is still missing. Custom sector selector is still broken, non priority items are ordered before priority items, and guards abandon stations during searches.

Amazing game although I do prefer the way escape mode is on the Nintendo Switch.

its rly fun and entertaining would defientely recommend to people looking for a game to play

This game is amazing for lots of reasons. This game lets you run a prison with fun and action, the one bad thing that i struggle with the most is the riots. The prison officers dont even try so i just delete a wall and let the rioters escape which leads to other problems like others escaping but overall a great game

It's a great Prison Simulator with a great Story, tho it's some time confusing with the task given to you being vague or have little to no detail.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
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☐ 10

This game is very fun for designers and builders overall but the game is ruined with its horrible build mechanics. To make an indoors room you must use foundations which automatically creates walls and flooring BUT this does not work in small or overlapping rooms. this makes a two wall thick effect in these very common situations which ruins the builds because you cannot make the room indoors. This could all be fixed if the developers added a foundations floor button and a foundations wall button that allow you to create rooms without any of this game ruining effects. I really do love the game but again, I had to rage quit because of this stupidly made build system. The foundations build system specifically.

if you want to kill a prisoner just put them in lockdown or solitary until they die of starvation

How could you mess up GUI scaling this bad? Your shit game is unplayable no matter if I use safe mode or not.

Reform your prisoners, exploit them for profit, it's up to you!

Good game.

Not sure which update they decided to completely screw this game up on but I can no longer run it on my pc. It opens on my 4th monitor, smallest possible resolution in a window. When you attempt to change any settings it crashes.

Go buy something else.

Prarchitect is a game about my sick fantasies in which I can put all of you in a filthy little box and listen to you scream. I don't know if you can comprehend the darkness that lives in my soul but let's just say I listen to Evanescence while I play this game. In this prison, I am the architect, and I am not just drawing the walls; I am drawing a fantastical treasure map where the X marks agony. Oh, you don't know if I'm gonna bait ya into acting up in front of armed guards on free fire or just lock ya in a 1x1 solitary and give ya the Cask of Amontillado special, but one thing's for sure: you're gonna regret the day you got accused of criming.

Very good game, would recommend. The architecture is very good and detailed but could get some improvement with more in-depth building and settings. The deployment tab requires a lot of improvement. The game is overall fun but i recommend buying DLC's such as Gangs, Psych ward or Second Chances...

Game was fun but no support for Apple Silicon and an annoying launcher...

So bad that it's good. You will be confused for so much of your average session of playing this game to the point where it's genuinely hilarious. Cells with canteens right next to them will be dysfunctional because "there's no canteen available". The number of prisoners will fluctuate by 50 to 100 every day either because of deaths or new entries. By about five days you'll have infinitely more prisoners than cells to hold them in. You'll prioritize building a room but your 87 workers will just run around with garbage bags and boxes by some trucks for weeks. Random red squares will appear around prisoners and you'll have no idea why. Clothes will pile up in the laundry room and no matter how many prisoners you hire to do the laundry they won't even enter the room. There will constantly be dead prisoners laying throughout the prison with blood (and sometimes pee) stains on the ground. Doesn't matter if they were beaten to death or if they simply died of starvation, every single corpse ends up in a dramatically big pool of blood. Workers get locked out of the break room during lockdowns. You'll change the settings for a cell so that it's only for maximum security prisoners but all of the medium and low security prisoners will stay for some reason. You'll be forced to watch riots and deaths as the riot police don't move even after you make them. And after all of this 11 out of your 672 prisoners will somehow still be content and say that they are being treated fairly. The whole thing is a complete mess which makes it a really entertaining game.

I play this game like an evil capitalist who enjoys the suffering of the downtrodden, and that makes me very happy.

loved this game, building my own prison is super fun, but playing as a prisoner is also incredible!

multiple bugs and lies from the devs two years ago they released an update that claimed to essentially allow saved blueprints to transfer between save files and it would've been amazing but they lied.
this game is not worth full price, i regret not getting it on sale.
oh and the the devs abandoned this game which isn’t finished yet to go make a second game.
i really like this type of game but for the bugs and no future updates from the devs its not worth the money

this game is good as long as you dont go into the campane the escape mode is more fun than the actchal game

Hungry for DLC sales while never fixing any core features, maybe see if the sequel (always works for this type of game) is better.

I really tried to love this game, but everything seems so unexplained, specific and takes a great amount of time to do anything.
The building process, should be more like Rimworld, this foundation bs is really bad.
Prisoners misbehave and are surpressed, this decreases safety. What? Why? Should I let them do everything?
Prisoners complain about everything at the start, it is just annoying.
First female prison and there it goes the babies, annoying to get specific cells and nursery. Also annoying to get the female prisoners with babies to always have weapons/drugs/luxury items and not automatically punished.
The UI for this game is bad a lot of times and does not explain a lot. I saw a visitor with sign (-). Search online. Even people at forums could not answer what was this.
Anyway, I tried to have fun because I really like these kinds of simulators, however it is better to take another game.

PRISON ARCHITECT.
I really love designing and building my prison. It is very trial and error, but it is fun for hours. However other than expanding your prison there is very little you can do but watch your prisoners go about their day disrupting the peace or straight up escape attempts.
If you can put aside how it feels like you are the warden of what is essentially a concentration camp for prisoners, and yes you can even send prisoners to be executed. Besides the building aspect of the game, once you complete building your prison the game become more about budget management, limiting violence and making as much money as possible without allowing prison conditions to slip down to the point that your prisoners riot and make your job hell trying to quell a prisoner rebellion with riot troop storm troopers.

It is a decent design and build game with a bit of managerial simulation later in game. If I remember correctly I believe I got this game while on sale for about half the £24.99 it is going for now. My advice is wait until it goes on sale again as in my honest opinion the game feels limited in scale, with each time you start a new game it feels like you are just replaying the same game you played last time.
In other words I don't think I would pay the full price for this architect simulator as it is very limited and once you have played one game, you essentially are left to restart what feels like the same game over again.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
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☐ 10

This game has fed my hyper fixation for building and management games! Have I finished no, my fixation is slowly ending but it was so worth the buy as now I can always come back to this game to get lost into.