Prison Architect

If I try to stay as objective as possible, I'm gonna say this game is not worth it anymore. It simply changed for worse over the years, with some fundamental issues still not fixed while Paradox keeps releasing another overpriced DLC once in a while. To elaborate, the prison-building itself is rather cool. The gameplay, at its core, is enjoyable. But it's unfortunately really repetitive. Even if you sell your prison and build a new one with a bigger amount of starting money, nothing changes, you still research and build the exact same facilities, in the exact same order, because that's just how the tasks we take work, as in money in return for expanding our prison to say, allow visitations, or allow executions, or whatever else. As for the fundamental issues I mentioned, I won't even get into bugs I've faced, but actual gameplay annoyances that are still ignored. It's especially visible when you play as a prisoner and try to escape, you can simply run past all the guards as the guard-only door opens for them and nobody will stop you. The AI is less capable of abusing that, but will if the stars align. Or how a guard will run into a 1v4 fight just to die, rather than have any sense of self-preservation, and as far as I've seen, there's no way to tell him to disengage if the odds are not favourable. And so on and so forth, the more you play, the more you notice such little annoyances that are still not addressed since I first played the game, saddening me greatly. So, no, even if I can see why someone would enjoy this gameplay, it's not something worth getting into for the lack of polish and the sandbox-y freedom.