
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese +3 more
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Hours played at review time, across 612 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Themes across 608 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
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自分だけの刑務所が作れる=めっちゃ面白い 人権を無視した激狭懲罰房を量産してもいいし、自由がテーマのおしゃれ独房を作ってもいいし、対立するギャングにわざと抗争させる様なVS中庭を作ってもいい。 脱走を試みた奴は即刻射殺してもいい。 つまり、君はこの箱庭の帝王になれる!やれよ! 君だけのカサンドラはここにある!
It originally was a single game, and was great, got updates, etc... then Paradox Interactive took over as a publisher, and they are notorious for selling loads of additional, small DLC and microtransactions, instead of releasing free updates, or selling everything extra as one major expansion pack. It is a common method to milk customers. Make a game just entertaining enough without quite being fun, so the customer buys the additional pack hoping that it will make the game fun. The pack adds more, but again, is not quite fun enough. It's The Sims 4 method. The original Sims (like 1 and 2, and somewhat 3) had butt loads of content, and were very fun... the expansion packs added a lot of additional content like furniture and such, but didn't really replace the base gameplay. The Sims 4 however is pretty, but they removed lots of the base gameplay experience, and then have been slowly drip feeding content over years, now costing thousands of pounds, unless you sail the seven seas for it. It really was a great game, but my impression has been severely soured by the Paradox 'thousand DLC' model of drip feeding content to try to give you a dopamine hit, and charging for it. It is malevolent, as they are abusing psychology in a nefarious way to get you to keep spending over and over. Just a few pounds here, and there. It might as well be a drug they are selling. I guess it's cheaper than heroin...
Pretty fun.
i love building ethical swedish prisons. i love building prisons. i love prisons. i love.
This game used to be awesome before now. I can't launch the game properly. One of the mods crashed my game. And what's worse is everytime I launch the game, it has a perma-black screen EVEN in Safe-Mode.
Fun game as long as you know what to do!
is an easy game to learn hard to master
fun
I LOVE ARSON
whoever made this game, i love you.
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