Release date: 26 September 2012: paid Alpha / 2013: full game
Story/Description:
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Prison Architect is a game about managing limited resources - about balancing security with rehabilitation, and pitting punishment against productivity. However, quite uniquely for a management sim, it's also about storytelling and emotion.
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When the prisoners arrive, it gets really complicated. Each one needs a cell with a toilet and a bed, and they follow a customisable 24-hour schedule of eating, sleeping, exercising, showering and sitting alone in their rooms thinking about what they’ve done. In theory. In practice, every prisoner can get homesick, dirty, uncomfortable and bored, and their preferred way of dealing with it is to stab someone in the eye with a fork.
A small insight into the game at the state of the Alpha:
There is only one campaign mission as of yet, that acts as a tutorial. No problem here.
It still needs a lot of polishing. From a less convoluted UI (objects are randomly ordered, instead of either alphabetical or by groups), to other various bugs. It's also missing information about the rooms (Common Room: it is destined for the staff, or the inmates?) Small things that will surely be fixed in either the Beta or Release version.
But for me, the only problem that really needs fixing is the lag. The game starts to lag out of the blue. Then it stops. Then it starts again and so forth. If it wasn't for it, I would still be playing it instead of being here.
And there's features that are inexplicably missing, such as family visiting. I have no idea if they will include it latter on, but I do hope so. I know it's only a Alpha, but when it already looks so much complete, in terms of basics offers, it's strange when we see something missing.
So, with this said, I can only assume the game will only continue to grow, and in fact as it is, it's still very much enjoyable.
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