Prison Architect: Mobile

In-app purchases
3.2
9.32K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Mature 17+
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About this game

Escape from reality but not from your custom-made jail! Prison Architect: Mobile challenges you to build and manage a maximum security prison, from laying out cell blocks and inmate facilities, to managing staff pay and prisoner morale. From layout to execution (literally, in some cases), you are the architect, the warden, and the enforcer.

Prison designs will include basic necessities like cells, canteens, guard rooms, and infrastructure, but players can also include features like solitary confinement, workout areas, and even an execution chamber. The tablet version comes with enough to get started, with additional story-driven campaign chapters and more features available as premium content.

Prison Architect: Mobile includes:
- Build and manage a prison to house a variety of different prisoners
- Juggle inmate needs with security concerns, infrastructure, and the ever-looming budget
- Follow the story in Campaign Mode to learn new prison-building techniques and get to know life behind bars through a series of cutscenes and objectives
- Unlock more Campaign chapters with one-time purchases
- Violent Offenders: Manage different types of criminals and keep control through floods, fires, fights, and full-blown riots

Introversion Software, developers of critically acclaimed games, bring you a new mobile version of their award-winning PC hit. Together with the master strategists at Paradox Interactive, Introversions Prison Architect: Mobile will provide you with enough challenging fun to last an entire life sentence!
Updated on
Jul 3, 2019

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Ratings and reviews

2.6
2K reviews
Tammy Otsubo
January 16, 2021
I love the PC version and was excited to see Prison Architect come out on the app store, but was hesitant to buy it due to the reviews. Now that it is free, I decided to install the game. But I couldn't do anything. It wouldn't let me place a foundation or click anywhere else. I hope they fix the game. UPDATE: I previously rated the app 1☆, but changed to 3 after another review said to switch phone to swipe buttons in the navigation settings. It worked for me but it still wasn't as smooth.
54 people found this review helpful
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Parker Cibene
November 6, 2021
I was able to solve the screen scaling issue on my note 10+ by launching the game in landscape. If any white bar appears on the side of the screen at launch, I would close the app completely and relaunch. One in every 10 or so launches and the game works fine. Remember to open the pause menu if you leave your phone, if the screen locks while the game is live it'll crash. I don't think it'll ever get fixed, but at least it's usable for me for now. The sandbox works fine, I haven't retried story
43 people found this review helpful
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A Google user
July 4, 2019
Sent a bug report, but on the Galaxy S10 it has an issue where trying to tap on objects close to the bottom part of your phone is difficult. The hitbox for them shifts to the right just a bit. It's a fantastic game and the value of purchasing the entire thing isn't bad at all, but that glitch is preventing me from dropping money on it until it's fixed.
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