Prison Simulator
Fair · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $1.98/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 / AMD R9-380, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Get a taste of prison life! Become a prison guard and deal with dangerous convicts. Prison management, lots of daily activities. Will you become the best guard in history? Or maybe you'll turn into the worst scumbag this Prison has ever seen?
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in April 2026. Its cuts run 42 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 33 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Thief Simulator ($1.79, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats СИМУЛЯТОР ОДИНОЧЕСТВА В РУССКОЙ ДЕРЕВНЕ ($1.99, scores 45).
24 of the 625 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2021 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 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 72 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 6 of the 24 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 267 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
91% start to <1% rarestNo 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
6 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 03:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I picked it up on sale. It's ok, there's a lot of sloppy mistakes that haven't been fixed dispite dlcs and seemingly being complete now considering it's been around 5 years since release. As a sandbox, it isn't really that organic, it's small and limited, the story is a bit interesting but dies out way too quick and I had 0 interest in sticking around for freeplay. I was able to max my stats and buy most things...
I thought this would be a fun or funny game but really its just boring and it feels like actual work instead of playing a game. checking reports for errors? Stopping fights all the freaking time. Prisoners are annoying. Guards and employees are annoying. I can promise you that prison is nothing like this. They should have worried less about making this a legit simulator and just made it a fun and enjoyable game. I...
Really in-depth and tons of content. This is an excellent game. Also, you're free to to do just about anything you desire. I really enjoy the freedom.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Prison Simulator scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/842180/prison-simulatorReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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