
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 629 reviews with recorded playtime.
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unfortunately, although this game is quite fun, it is a buggy mess that I cannot recommend anyone purchase. the fact that it is available for sale even though it will never receive any bug fixes for the many MANY game breaking issues that can pop up is shameful. frequent crashes, logistical errors, terrible performance once you achieve any work, random prison destroying nonsense (cooks just refusing to make food with no clear fix, prisoners being stuck forever and starving to death due to bugs, prisoners being able to murder staff through closed doors and actual walls), and a clear lack of care from developers considering the sequel to this game is in development hell and may never see the light of day are all reasons why you should keep your money (and this game WANTS THAT MONEY because it will sell you 10 DLCs with poorly made game-breaking content just for the paycheck). buy rimworld and play a game that someone cared about making
Prison Architect est un excellent jeu de gestion qui permet de construire et gérer sa prison exactement comme on le souhaite. La direction artistique est simple mais très agréable, et le jeu offre énormément de liberté dans l’organisation des bâtiments, de la sécurité et de la gestion des détenus. Le mode histoire est également un très bon point, car il aide à bien comprendre les mécaniques du jeu et permet de prendre facilement le gameplay en main. Le jeu est globalement très stable, même avec des prisons de grande taille, et il comporte relativement peu de bugs. La communauté est aussi très active et propose énormément de mods qui ajoutent du contenu et améliorent encore davantage l’expérience de jeu. Je recommande fortement ce jeu, même pour les joueurs disposant d’un petit PC, car il reste bien optimisé, stable et facilement adaptable à différentes configurations.
Prison Architect — 6/10 Szczerze po godzinie grania dalej nie do końca wiedziałem, co się dzieje. Gra ma dużo mechanik i rzeczy do ogarnięcia, przez co na początku może przytłoczyć. Pomysł jest bardzo fajny — budowanie i zarządzanie własnym więzieniem daje sporo możliwości, ale trzeba się w to mocno wgryźć, żeby naprawdę zacząć rozumieć jak to działa. Optymalizacja jest dobra, gra działa stabilnie i nie ma większych problemów technicznych. To raczej kwestia samej złożoności gameplayu. Zalety: * ciekawy i oryginalny pomysł * dużo mechanik i możliwości * dobra optymalizacja * satysfakcja z rozbudowy więzienia Wady: * bardzo przytłaczająca na start * ciężko ogarnąć co się dzieje * wymaga czasu i cierpliwości * nie dla każdego * gra nie jest darmowa Ogólnie warto spróbować, ale trzeba się liczyć z tym, że to bardziej skomplikowany symulator i wymaga czasu, żeby go zrozumieć.
Highly Recommend this game, especially when the next game is coming soon. This game is a really chill experience, if your looking for something to relax and just watch time pass by, this is it. The game has a lot of pointless DLC, i have only ever owned the main game, DLC in my opinion is not worth it, there are plenty of good mods that change the game. The game does get repetitive, but i generally play every now and then, and give a break in between and use different mods to make it feel fresh.
I love this game, but I can no longer recommend it. It is full of bugs, to the point of making it unplayable, especially with larger prisons. The "free" DLC's would not even install and the requirement to create additional accounts just to play this game makes it not worth it anymore.
a great grind very fun would recommend to anyone who likes doing whatever they want with there imagination
I love it. Just wish I could name my prisoner, all my prisoners - then I would of made DJT as President of his prison cell/block
Fun game to kill some time
its fun
good game, quite moddable, runs well, very fun, and you can do basically whatever tf you want. you can make a nice prison where you treat your inmates well and give them opportunities for rehabilitation or you can create a living hell for everyone unfortunate enough to be brought within your fences.
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