
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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Hands down the best one with just so much potential wasted. Still has some bugs and game engine problems because the developers are dumb as sh!t but besides that the games great and some of the DLCs can make the game more interesting for a bit. Really wish it didnt get sold to Paradox but thats how it goes ig. Prison Architect 2 is a scam.
very good game in my opinion. can run with low end laptops like the vivobook with intergrated graphics.
Lowkey thought this wouldn't run well or at all on my M1 considering this game was more for Intel Macs. But uh, 3 hours later and lots of fun. Runs amazing. You should automatically be able to play this considering most M1, M2, M3, etc. have a translator for the intel games. Game itself, amazing, makes you feel very warden like and just like an architect. Its a pretty advanced game imo and I would highly recommend it.
我是2020年看了哔站超果果MC的视频所以决定花90块买来这个游戏的,也是我使用steam的起始,这个游戏虽然有一些不尽人意的地方,但我认为总体上是非常好玩的,我由衷推荐那些喜欢玩沙盒建造和策略管理的人可以玩这款游戏。唯一的缺点就是内容不配价格的DLC了
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.
The new launcher just shuts down when I start it. They broke my game.
Prison Architect deserves a genre of its own by now. I have played so many games that try to emulate the style and while a few are up to the challenge most games fail to meet the bar set by the OG. This is one of those games that I have many hours in and still have no clue how to play without cheats but it is still an absolutely interesting romp while I'm at it. If you want to test the limits of human psyche and see how you can turn a lowlife criminal into a repeat offender through maltreatment or how far you can push a criminal before they go haywire then this is the game for you! It really is hard to find a better sandbox management game than this. I give this 9/10.
constant crashes
优化烂的要命,bug非常多,完全一坨
游戏可玩性很高,完全玩不腻,是我所有游戏里面最爱的一款建筑类游戏。缺点也很明显:上手难度有点高对新手不是很友好,有些bug特别是对于新手而言根本分不清是游戏bug.还是自己没有操作好,游戏内部的教程也不够仔细,很多地方提示该更多一点,就比如因为监狱不是封闭而无法到达食堂这类问题应该说清楚
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