
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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Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 634 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Themes across 630 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
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Kann das Tutorial nicht spielen, da wohl Spülen und weiteres nicht als gebaut erkannt wird...
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.
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.
Everyone in my Prison died in a fire 10/10
**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.
Einfach ein super Spiel
Make no mistake, despite the goofy graphics, this is a cold bureaucracy simulator. You will become a monster. You will love paperwork. Run while you still can; avoid at all costs!
tuff game fr
You can put prisoners in terrible conditions so they attack you, then you can nearly kill them
great time killer
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