Prison Boss VR

Prison Boss VR

Fair · Strategy · 2017

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3h 9h to 100%
Value
$6.66/hr
Reviews
88% of 448 positive
It needs 66% off ($6.85) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.85 or less.

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

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$6.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
Refunds8 of 318 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Prison Boss VR is a crafting and trading game turning your VR space into a jail cell! Craft cigarettes, alcohol and cookies for other inmates! Customize your cell as your reputation grows! Earn cash until you can’t store it anymore and become the Prison Boss!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 65 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Drug Dealer Simulator ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Bakery Simulator ($1.11, scores 18).

More about Prison Boss VR

This site sampled 318 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 200 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 135 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 3 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 3.0 times as long.

The drop-off

86% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 10:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Prison Boss VR scores 53/100 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/673600/prison-boss-vr
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTREBUCHET
PublisherTREBUCHET
GenreStrategy
Released2017
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements38