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Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Charts
Each storefront's own chart, in its own country — the closest public signal to sales where none is published. A country missing from a list is one we don't collect there, not one where the game doesn't chart.
No United States chart position — it charts only in the markets below.
Latest in each market: best UK #79, worst BR #94 · 5 markets collected
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.71/day in the week to Aug 26 → 11.14/day in the week after.
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Genres
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; GOG, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $29.99 | 73.9Kreviews | 89% | — | $63.3M |
| $7.49−75% | 551ratings | 70% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 1036 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
For a game about building the controls and ui are really bad
面白いゲームです。バグが多いというコメントが多いですが、それは嘘です。私はこのゲームを90時間以上プレイしていますがまだバグには遭遇していません。しかし、バグだと勘違いされる部分が非常に多いです、そのため、バグに文句を言っている人は、バグではなくこのゲームのシステムを理解していないだけでしょう。 このゲームは、施設管理ゲームとして限りなく完成しており、施設のすべてを完全に支配したいという人にはきわめてお勧めできるゲームですが、その代わり普通にプレイしたい人には向きません。 このゲームは、管理設定や設備などによって施設に鑑賞できるパラメーターが非常に多く、それを理解しないとバグ（笑）が発生してしまいます。とにかくいろんな設定をいじったりwikiやうまい人のプレイ動画を参照することをつよくおすすめします。 理解出来たら非常に面白く、パズルゲーム的な面白さも感じることができます。グラフィックもわかりやすくMODやダウンロードコンテンツなども豊富なので、興味があるならプレイするべきです。
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Every market we collect.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese +3 more
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 1K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Le jeu est super, même sans DLC. Par contre, impossible de jouer en ligne de façon fiable ! Dès qu'une prison devient grosse, il est impossible de continuer la partie avec un ami. Dans tous les cas, même si vous arrivez à charger votre partie, les serveurs seront HS comme souvent.
Bought this game in 2024, everything was fine. Fun little game. Reinstalled it in 2026 to realize none of the DLCs that I bought work anymore for some odd reason. I tried everything I could. First time this ever happened to me on Steam, and I highly suspect their launcher has something to do with it. Can't refund now, so money thrown off the window. Thumbs down, and I am not going to spend any more money on Paradox games from this point on until this gets fixed.
DONT BUY! You will end up spending more in DLCs than the actual base price of the game. I really wanted to enjoy this game but after finding almost all the content is behind DLCs I made a ticket asking for a refund. Really great concept but expect to pay for content every step of the way.
reviewed
問題一堆不修，在那邊忙著出2
staff keep on threatening to go on strike so i pull a little mr birling on them and everything i build has a higher death rate then the famous german guy's side project. peak game
very good game some gliches also if the game does not work on paradox go on google and search up "how to play prison architect on steam then paradox" and then follow what is says
holy unexplained and janky mechanics
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
The games this title's players most often review too — audience affinity.
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