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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
Fun when you can figure out what to design. The unfun part is trying to design a prison.
**Prison Architect** is easily one of my favourite management games. With nearly **300 hours played**, I still find myself returning to build new prisons, test different layouts and try completely different approaches. The freedom and replayability are what make it so enjoyable. You can focus on efficiency, security, rehabilitation or simply create total chaos and see what happens. No two prisons ever seem to develop in quite the same way, especially once the inmates and staff begin creating their own problems. It has a few bugs and can become difficult to manage in larger prisons, but the depth, creativity and endless sandbox possibilities more than make up for it. A brilliant game that has given me hundreds of hours of entertainment.
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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 2,419 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
Very good
With over 100 hours in this game, it is something that I love returning to. The game is quite complex and fun. I do have the going green and second chances DLC and they are great. If you can only get one DLC, I would recommend second chances + the free DLCs. However, the game is a bit buggy aswell. For example, you might get high security prisoners even if you turn them off and have no cells for them, vistors will walk through the prison even if you set routes etc. Therefore, the game gets 4,5/5 stars.
The game is fire, one of the best, and one of my favorite management/simulator games. Although, it has it's downsides, such as, well, BAD OPTIMIZATION. And when I say it i MEAN IT, it's SO BAD. A game released in 2015 and last time was updated in 2023 without even changing the engine or anything in general is running in like 50fps with stutters on a pc that is well, a potato nowadays, but was absolutely fine until probably 2022, and considering the fact that the game engine wasn't changed much, it wasn't that hard to optimize something in WHOLE EIGHT YEARS of updates. This pisses me off so much honestly, but the game is great, worth buying if you like management, simulator, or architecture games.
Gra dzieciństwa, nie zestarzała się źle
ok
又进不去，垃圾
バグ以外は面白いがバグがありえないほど面白くない 1.ドアが閉まらない 2.経路が勝手に遮断される これだけでゲームの進行がほぼ不可能になるので面白くないです せいぜい100％面白いのはチュートリアルまでです まぁそもそもパブリッシャーにパラドックスがいる時点でシステム面ではクソゲー確定ですね そんなことすっかり忘れて買っていました
Kann das Tutorial nicht spielen, da wohl Spülen und weiteres nicht als gebaut erkannt wird...
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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