Prison Architect

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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Poland over the last 30 days: the 21 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 12 places towards #1, and the 2,501 moves with no price cut behind them went 1 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.

Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.

Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.

Hours played at review time, across 1.1K reviews with recorded playtime.

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This game is honestly a huge disappointment. Prison Architect has a great concept, but the technical state of the game completely ruins the experience. The biggest issue is the terrible optimization. As soon as your prison reaches around 200+ inmates, the FPS drops hard and the game becomes almost unplayable. This isn’t about weak hardware - it’s clearly a problem with how poorly the game is optimized. On top of that, there are constant lags and performance issues that make managing your prison frustrating instead of enjoyable. And the crashes? They happen way too often for a fully released game. It feels like you're playing an unfinished product rather than something that’s been out for years. It’s really frustrating because the core idea is great, but instead of focusing on strategy and management, you’re stuck dealing with performance problems all the time. If the developers can’t fix optimization and stability, it seriously hurts the entire game.