Once they’ve all got a place to lay their weary heads the fun can really start.

As your workmen lay the last brick you don’t have a moment to let them rest as they need to get started on the first proper cell block so you can make room for the next prisoner intake. You’ve got to crack on and build a holding cell to detain the job-lot of maximum security prisoners that are trundling to your future prison on their yellow bus.

As the sun casts it’s early morning rays on a beautiful patch of countryside the clock starts ticking. Prison Architect has strong gameplay, without ever overcomplicating its gameplay and mechanics and it makes for a nice, casual game to pick up for a few hours once everything’s been tinkered with or figured out.Build and manage a Maximum Security Prison. The Bottom Lineįor anyone that wants a great building game that takes a little bit of time to learn, but not nearly to the same extent as other games out there, then this is the game for them. Mix in some ideas from The Sims and Dungeon Master and this is how Prison Architect is created. In terms of comparisons, the game takes a lot of ideas from the classic tycoon games, which were all around making decisions for that particular business or company, building it up from nothing to make it a 5-star establishment. With this in mind, it’s best to try and find a nice balance for the two to make sure nothing serious happens, as the player will be paying the price for it, literally. But on the other hand, having high amounts of prisoners with varied crimes and backgrounds can cause more problems. The more prisoners that the prison holds at any one time is how much money the prison will bring in each day. The other option is to house more inmates. To earn money, the player can either accept grants which will give them a set amount of cash upon accepting the grant and completing the grant, with each grant having its own set of requirements to be fulfilled. Everything in the game costs money to set up: staff, objects, piping, and everything else on offer.

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