Prison Architect on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Prison Architect is a simulation, building and sandbox game
developed by Double Eleven and Introversion Software
and published by Paradox Interactive.
Released on October 06th 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 15 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Swedish, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.
It has received 72,066 reviews of which 64,221 were positive and 7,845 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.10€ on Instant Gaming.
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- OS:Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
- Processor:Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher
- Memory:6 GB RAM
- Graphics:Nvidia 8600 / Radeon equivalent (2009 era)
- Hard Drive:400 MB HD space
- Processor:2009 era Macbook Pro, Core2 Duo processor
- Memory:6 GB RAM
- Hard Drive:400 MB HD space
- OS: Ubuntu 18 or later
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 8600 / Radeon equivalent (2009 era)
- Hard Drive: 500 MB HD space
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