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Prison Architect

The game is a top-down 2D construction and management simulation where the player takes control of building and running a prison. The player is responsible for managing various aspects of their prison including building cells and facilities, planning and connecting utilities, hiring and assigning staff, including a warden, guards, workers, and more. The player needs to recruit staff to unlock more aspects of the game. The player is also responsible for the finance, and keeping their inmates content.

Prison Architect: Xbox One Edition

Take control of the building and running of a maximum security prison as the critically acclaimed lock-em-up arrives on Xbox One! Will you build and manage a prison to create social order where it’s failed in the past, offering rehabilitation and peaceful coexistence amongst inmates? Will your prison disregard human rights, impose intentional harshness and be devoid of any notions of wellbeing and freedom? The choice is yours.

Prison Architect: PlayStation 4 Edition

Prison Architect: Aficionado

Dive into Introversion Software’s creative process and the music (composed by Alistair Lindsay) behind the world’s most infamous prison management simulator. Prison Architect - Aficionado contains: Original Digital Artbook and Original Soundtrack.

Prison Architect: Island Bound

Welcome to The Rock, Wardens! Island Bound introduces more ways to build and manage your prison with helicopters, ships, and lots of water. Upgrade your prison’s logistics with a variety of ferry and helicopter transport options that deliver supplies and inmates directly to docking areas around your compound. However, there are also more access points to sneak contraband into the prison. Manage the world’s most famous prison with two premade maps: Alcatraz Prison and Alcatraz Island.

Prison Architect: Second Chances

Prison Architect: Second Chances gives your inmates a fresh start with reform and rehabilitation features, helping them improve behaviors and reduce sentences.

Prison Architect: Psych Ward - Warden's Edition

Welcome to the Psych Ward! Your prison will be more lively than ever with the arrival of the criminally insane. Lucky for you, it’s time to outfit your prison with the latest and greatest in Psych Ward management to house these unpredictable inmates.

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Born in 2010, we’ve come a long way since our days as a Sony exclusive studio. Founded by two former lead engineers of the infamous Rockstar, in Leeds, we’ve grown and matured to become one of the most exciting and adept games companies in the world. Although we’re technically focused, that’s not the focus of our story though. We exist because we want to change the world of gaming for the better, shaping more supportive environments for our people, creating more fulfilling roles and operating in a way that really helps our people to thrive both in and outside of work.

Double Eleven

For over a decade, Paradox Interactive has been a leading global publisher of PC-based strategy games with a particularly strong presence in the United Stated and Europe. Its steadily-growing portfolio includes firmly established PC franchises such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings series of games, created by Paradox Development Studio, as well as the award-winning Magicka and Mount & Blade titles.

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Kokku is the largest Brazilian co-development company specializing in providing services that include CoDev, FullDev and 3D Art Production for Mobile, Consoles and PC.

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Prison Architect 2

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A status of release where the game has gone gold. Typically this is referred to as 1.0.

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Welcome Architects! Design and develop your own personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect 2. The classic prison-builder has broken out into 3D, and it's up to you to contain it!

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