Prison Architect

Prison Architect is a private prison construction and management simulation made by British game developer Introversion Software. The game was made available as a crowdfunded pain alpha pre-order on September 25, 2012 with updates scheduled every three weeks.

With over 330,000 copies sold, Prison Architect made over USD 10.7 million in sales for the alpha version. The game is available on Steam listed as Steam Early Access and a DRM free version. Updates for the game are released monthyly.

Video Card

 * Minimum: Nvidia 8600 / Radeon equivalent (2009 era)
 * Pixel Shader version 3.0
 * Vertex Shader version 3.0
 * 256 MB dedicated video RAM

CPU & RAM

 * Minimum: Intel Core2 Duo 2.4 Ghz or highrt / AMD
 * CPU Speed 2.0 Ghz
 * At least 4 GB of RAM

OS & Disk Space

 * OS Minimum: Microsoft Windows XP SP2
 * At least 100 MB of free disk space for full installation

Sound Card

 * Latest sound card driver required.

You may check if your machine met the required specifications here.

Gameplay
Prison Architect is a top-down two dimensinal construction and management simulation where the player takes control of building and running a prison.

The player is responsible for managing various aspects of their prison including building facilities, planning and connecting utilities, hiring and assigning staff; the player need to recruit staff in order to unlock more aspects of the game. Beside dreating facilities, the player is also responsible for the finance and keeping their inmates content, the players role is both the architect and the governon with the sandbox micromanagement themes such as chosing where to put lights, drains, how they connect and other facilities. The player is able to add workshops as well as reform programs that reduce the specific prisoner's repeat offender rate.

Versions and Changelogs
You may check the versions and changelogs on Introversion's official website by clicking here.