
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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Okay, I suppose. Easy to learn & master, and enjoyable to play. The choppy, awkward escape mode leaves much to be desired, though...
- За что сидишь? - Я ругал Петрова, сел за неуважение к власти. - Понятно. А ты за что сидишь? - А я хвалил Петрова, сел за распространение фейков. - Ясно. А ты за что сидишь? - А я сам Петров.
Я как человек прошедший через психушку, рад что здесь можно построить своё ПНД. Но перловой на завтрак кормить нельзя. Хорошо.
-Lo instalo -veo muchas cosas, me agobio, lo desinstalo. -Vuelvo a instalarlo, aprendo a jugar -Creo mi propia prisión, motín,4 guardias muertos por una cuchara, 10/10, me encantan los motines.
the first prison you make will be horrible. you'll understand by the second prison you make why the first was horrible. this may be something that repeats throughout your entire career in this game. it's so fun to watch your prison develop, to organise it and turn it into a well oiled machine that you'll find isn't well oiled enough. takes a bit of learning but it's so worth.
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there are a lot of bugs and the escape mode is half-baked, but since there are no further updates, you learn to shove yourself into a mindset of "it's not a bug anymore, it's now an intentional obstacle since it's not getting fixed anyway". arguably that would make this a bad game, but honestly personally it just gives you more problems to solve in exceedingly stupid ways. trying to investigate your guards but your ci isn't getting into the chief's office properly? sure i'll just temporarily expand the office by two squares lol aside from the bugs, it's just crack. you can and will get stuck playing it for about six hours. do not let the positive recommendation fool you. if you want something casual to play then this is not it
very good game in my opinion. can run with low end laptops like the vivobook with intergrated graphics.
Great game, minor bugs but you can work around them and most fix themselves. Keep in mind there are a lot of mechanics to the game and can get annoying, also many of the features and items are locked in the DLCs. So buy everything if you can you wont regret it, especially if you like city builder games. You can change the game settings when you make a new prison, just go to Extras tab in the in game menu to change the game and mutator settings to test them out. A little almost invisible tab on the escape menu on the bottom left turns the game 3D. Only real downside to this game is having to google or youtube how to do things frequently because the tutorial leaves a lot of things out. But that goes for any game that has depth. Everything else just takes experience playing around with to get them to work properly. After playing 170 hours I can confidently say all the negative reviews are surly from people who didnt have the time to learn how to play the game or didnt want to buy the DLCs to get the games full potential. To each their own.
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