Space Prison
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.9h 52.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.26/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 296 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang! Explore, fight, craft, trade and learn convicts' stories to escape the facility. Space Prison is a turn-based tactical survival game with deep strategy and social RPG elements.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 650 / Radeon HD 7750, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
23 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 44 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Quasimorph ($16.24, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Multiverse Loot Hunter ($10.79, scores 53).
More about Space Prison
This site sampled 266 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 15.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 53, 3.3 times as much.
The drop-off
92% start to 27% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Funny little game. Looks like took me about 24 hours to finish. Interesting sense of humour, inventory management/turn based strategy game. Took a bit to figure out where to get what crafting things and not many guides seem to be out there. Not too difficult to figure out. Might try and finish Broken Collar mode with the other gang... each prisoner does seem to have an interesting story. Finished normal mode at day...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Has some nifty ideas and concepts, though the game is very basic at the end of the day. Once you've done a few days in game you've basically seen all the game has to offer as far as gameplay goes; you get 8 hours every day to do what you want, which are usually spent traveling from one hub to the next. You'll be balancing keeping your health, hunger, and hope up while leveling up your equipment, stations, and rising...
I really want to like this game, but the combat is so basic and underwhelming. The sound design could use a bit of work; it lacks a certain punch to it that makes every hit feel empty. The concepts are interesting, like recruiting rats and gang members, but you're telling me in a massive prison there's only two gangs? There's also only three races to pick from, so there just isn't much variety. The art style is very...
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Cite this score
Space Prison scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1865930/space-prisonReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.