Build and manage a Maximum Security Prison. As the sun casts it’s early morning rays on a beautiful patch of countryside the clock starts ticking. You’ve got to crack on and build a holding cell to detain the job­ lot of maximum security prisoners that are trundling to your future prison on their yellow bus. As your workmen lay the last brick you don’t have a moment to let them rest as they need to get started on the first proper cell block so you can make room for the next prisoner intake. Once they’ve all got a place to lay their weary heads the fun can really start.

You’ll need a canteen, infirmary and a guard room, oh, and don’t forget to plumb in a toilet, or things will get messy, but what about a workout area? Or solitary confinement cells? Or an execution chamber?

Prison Architect opens with the story of Edward, a man facing the electric chair for committing a crime of passion. This is followed by four additional chapters focusing on different characters and aspects of prison life. From Mafia Dons to power-crazed senators, Prison Architect has them all! To bring these characters to life, Introversion teamed up with award winning professional writer Chris Hastings, producing an enthralling tale of corruption and human misery set against the background of the modern prison industrial complex.

Finished your supermax? Got guard dogs roving every corridor and prisoners eating out of your hand? Now you can live the horror by firing up escape mode and play as a prisoner hell-bent on getting the hell out of dodge.

Dig a tunnel, go for the armoury or start a riot and slip out in the chaos, it’s entirely up to you! Figure out how to escape from your own creation, or hit the random button and load one of the 12,000 prisons created by the steam community.

After Paradox Interactive acquired all rights and assets for the Prison Architect IP earlier this year, it seems there has been a development change as well. Original creator Introversion is no longer working on the game, instead Double Eleven is in charge of active development.

Paradox Interactive announced that Prison Architect has been downloaded by more than 4 million players across PC, console, and mobile since release.

In addition to this milestone, Paradox Interactive has partnered with Double Eleven, the studio supporting Prison Architect on console, to continue development of both PC and console editions of the game with new expansions on the horizon.

“Double Eleven has done an excellent job supporting Prison Architect on console since 2016 and the game’s community loves what they bring to the table,” Steacy McIlwham, Product Manager for Prison Architect at Paradox Interactive, said. “We are confident in Double Eleven’s ability to continue improving upon an already great game and they have our full support.”

To kick off this partnership Paradox Interactive and Double Eleven have released “The Clink” on PC, an update that adds enhanced Guard features, additional cosmetics, and a wide range of improvements requested by the Prison Architect community.

“The Clink” Update Highlights:

• Updates to existing in-game object sprites to support all placement orientations.
• New Tunnel Search functionality that allows guards to search toilets for hidden escape tunnels.
• Four new floor tiles and four new wall types added to further customize your prison.
• Additional Quick Rooms added to the Quick Build menu, for quicker and easier room construction.
• . . . and more!

This is just the beginning of lots of FREE updates and content, but hey - you may want to know about the PAID content. Like all game companies, we make games that you want to buy. So what do you want to buy?

Inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Dwarf Fortress and Theme Hospital and with over 1 million players having spent time inside, Prison Architect is the world’s best lock-­em-­up.

Prison Architect is available on Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC.