Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
Most players never reach the end. On a 17-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
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Worth it · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableBUY IT.
Yes, worth it at $29.99.
about 17h$29.99 (~)
Better value than 99% of Strategy games
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Prison Architect scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/233450/prison-architect<a href="https://steamBANGERS.com/game/233450/prison-architect"><img src="https://steambangers.com/api/badge/233450" alt="BANG Score" width="340" height="80"></a>[](https://steamBANGERS.com/game/233450/prison-architect)The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 6h ago.
Peak 781Low 781Latest 781
Daily peak concurrent players.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Low $7.49High $29.99Now $29.99
Price line + bands by tier:Worth itPrice history via IsThereAnyDeal.
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2024. It has been discounted 92 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Uplink ($5.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats The Last Starship ($19.99, scores 28).
Steam's global achievement data says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 17-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.