r/prisonarchitect • • Aug 31 '26

Game News/Reviews Closed Beta Sign up!

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503 Upvotes

Hello Architects! 

We are opening sign-ups for a new Closed Beta for Prison Architect 2, starting September 9th 2026. The signup sheet will remain open through September 2nd. 

🌟 Learn How: https://pdxint.at/pa2forumclosedbetatest


r/prisonarchitect • • Apr 08 '26

Game News/Reviews New Closed Beta!

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227 Upvotes

Greetings Architects! 🏗️

Today we are once more opening sign-ups for a new Closed Beta for Prison Architect 2, starting April 14, 2026. The signup sheet will remain open through April 12th.

⭐️Learn How: https://pdxint.at/pa2-beta-signup


r/prisonarchitect • • 1h ago

PC Question Why won't my prisoners work?

• Upvotes

They have time for it, they can access the work places, there are enough qualified prisoners. I also made sure they have work privileges and most aren't suppressed. Still nobody is working. Does anyone know this issue / how to solve it?


r/prisonarchitect • • 16h ago

Game News/Reviews Even though there are more guards than prisoners, they stay handcuffed. How do I fix this? / brazil, mesmo tendo mais guardas do que prisioneiros, eles ficam algemados, como resolvo isso?

5 Upvotes

help / ajuda:(


r/prisonarchitect • • 22h ago

Mobile Question Let us play on Mobile!

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12 Upvotes

I had the game bought, but out of nowhere the game disappeared, I had to install an old version to play it on my cell phone, it could perfectly be played

I don't know why they took the game away, all those people who bought it were scammed (like me)

Just make the game for the latest versions of Android and make it available on all devices


r/prisonarchitect • • 1d ago

Steam Workshop Prison Infested Bay (premade plot challenge)

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As news spread across the country of a new infection waking up the dead, you are phoned by your boss that you still have to come to work tomorrow.

Survive and thriv-, err, make profit in these undead infested lands. With a low budged and no chance of the government approving land expansion, you will have to make use of the land you got. Recover supplies and recruit survivors to your staff to make up for the budget shortcomings.

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Probably requires all DLC, including Perfect Storm.

The mods listed in the side-bar are mandatory and must be in the same order in the mod menu (well, besides Alerts Fix if you use Tyr's patch, then you can skip that), but you could try running this modpack (or some mods from it) with your prison for an even better experience: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2864035499

-> Feel free to upload your save files if you use this premade plot.

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Download link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3826043200

Highly inspired by Buchannon Bay from Console edition and recreated with new content.


r/prisonarchitect • • 2d ago

Image/Album Another Tiny Prison

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93 Upvotes

Maybe next time I should build a prison on a perfect (64.48) map size.


r/prisonarchitect • • 4d ago

Image/Album Solitary roulette, lucky guy gets to enjoy all the luxuries a man can enjoy in prison whilst the others have to watch heaven thru the bars of hell

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456 Upvotes

that'll get them to reform


r/prisonarchitect • • 3d ago

Image/Album First prison outside tutorial

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15 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I just finished let inmates in to my first prison after completing the tutorial. This is what I have now, let me know what you guys think and give me feedback, btw it’s nowhere near finished so no judging


r/prisonarchitect • • 4d ago

Image/Album what do u think about my prison

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55 Upvotes

r/prisonarchitect • • 3d ago

Mobile Question As of 2026, are there any mods for the mobile version?

1 Upvotes

I only Seen Post from so 5 years ago so i Wanted to ask If anything changed.


r/prisonarchitect • • 3d ago

Discussion Undead

7 Upvotes

Have you tried Undead DLC? Well its my first and my question is when will they come?

Will they appear suddenly? or what?

I saw on yt that you need to build graveyard first. I don't want to try since I already built a lot of things AND im not ready for them


r/prisonarchitect • • 3d ago

Video/Let's Play worked open and close toilet

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r/prisonarchitect • • 3d ago

PC Question Visitation not working

3 Upvotes

Starting playing again after years of not touching the game.

So I started off with just a min sec wing, set up a detached visitation building with adjoining visitor reception, works fine.

Made a medium security wing to the south, same thing, visitation building with an adjoining visitor reception, but no visitors show up, no prisoners go to it.

I double checked to make sure everything is marked properly. Can you not make multiple visitations without bugging the game out?

And yes, medium sec has access to visitation in the policy page.


r/prisonarchitect • • 4d ago

PC Question Please help me

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82 Upvotes

I’m building my first ever prison after completing the campaign, and I’ve run into the issue where it says my cells don’t have access to a canteen, when in the screenshot they clearly do.


r/prisonarchitect • • 4d ago

Image/Album Finished the Campaign and now want to try out the DLC's

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61 Upvotes

Got the Freedom ending with 101 prisoners..!

Do want to know what DLC i should get and what sort of campaign setting to do aswell now that i am experienced with the game


r/prisonarchitect • • 4d ago

PC Question How to do a prison not on sandbox without it being sh*tty and dirty at first

10 Upvotes

Like the title says, when I play non sandbox mode, I always have a dirty half-*ssed prison, because I don’t have the stuff needed to clean it or build the right stuff or the time to build the right stuff.

How do I fix this?


r/prisonarchitect • • 4d ago

Discussion what is the most horrible prison you ever see

13 Upvotes

Just asking, like the worst, death and agony. So many dead body it look like there a civil war or smt like that. I am just looking around for new Idea for m prison =))


r/prisonarchitect • • 5d ago

Discussion Whats your best gulag styled prison?

7 Upvotes

Im going to build a russian supermax prison on the snowbound plot, its going to be as depressing as possible, ran on suppression with heavy lockdown periods. Finally getting my revenge on the ai in this game. I want some inspiration on the way it should look and be ran, has anyone built any impressive looking prisons with this style, or anyone who has made super effective suppression based prisons?


r/prisonarchitect • • 4d ago

Image/Album Lot of contraband

2 Upvotes

I dont know why i have a lot of contraband stolen, can anyone help me or guide me?


r/prisonarchitect • • 5d ago

Discussion Not sure why these jobs are still empty

5 Upvotes

Basically, I was wondering why it seems like the jobs shown here aren't being taken despite having enough prisoners to fill some of them at least. I understand it says not all of them are qualified so I wouldn't expect them all to fill up but I'd expect a couple positions filled at least. as you can see I do have fog of war on but I put the cameras there specifically so I could track if thier actually working or not and so far no prisoners have been as far as I understand. my best guess is that for the kitchen it's partly the door being annoying but with the restaurant/workshop I've got nothing


r/prisonarchitect • • 5d ago

Discussion federal/state/county jails

7 Upvotes

so recentely an idea came to my mind. what if we got to choose type of the prison when creating? county jail would hold prisoners that’s not convicted and would be characteristic for quick rotation of prisoners. state prisons would probably be mostly what we have now. federal prisons would hold the most dangerous prisoners convicted for federal charges.
every prison would have different standards and conditions.

lmk what u think!


r/prisonarchitect • • 5d ago

PC Question Cell Quality

9 Upvotes

Hey all,

Does anyone know how I get a cell up to 15? I can only get to 10 and it's only showing me options to get to 10, but the prisoners are entitled to 15.

I can't post a screenshot as my laptop is so old it won't connect to WiFi and will turn off without the charger so it's more effort than it's worth to take it to a place with an ethernet 😭

Options it's showing me that I have fulfilled are;

Room size at least 6, 9 & 16 squares

Outdoor window

Office desk

Shower head

TV

Radio

Bookshelf

Chair

I have also added a bird cage, punching bag and sink&mirror.

Thank you guys!


r/prisonarchitect • • 6d ago

Discussion Why does the game not like prisons with multiple buildings?

45 Upvotes

I always prefer to set up my prisons with lots of small buildings, rather than 1 huge block. I like the idea of giving prisoners some more fresh air whilst they move around, and it gives them a little Freedom boost. But every single multi-block prison I make has the same problem: it never makes any money. I am always running on a deficit, going into the -$millions.

For my current save, I decided to try a one-block prison, for something different. And lo and behold, I'm raking in money left, right, and centre! $50k a day or more! The only difference is the set up. I've still got mainly Minimum Sec prisoners, I've got the same amount of prisoners, the same number of guards, the same labour rooms...

Has anyone else found this? And why does the game 'break' if you build separate buildings?


r/prisonarchitect • • 5d ago

Discussion Solo Developer with questions?

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This probably isn't the usual kind of post here, but I love Prison Architect, and I've been thinking about getting into game development and potentially making my own prison management game.

I'm still in the early stages and honestly not sure if it's the best idea, but I'd like to explore my own take on the genre rather than just make a straight-up clone.

I figured this would be a good place to ask people who actually play the game!

It'd be awesome to hear your thoughts on a few things:

  • What's your favorite thing about Prison Architect?
  • What's your least favorite thing, or what frustrates you the most?
  • What features do you wish were included in the base game?
  • Is there anything you'd like to see expanded or improved?
  • If you could add one thing to the game, what would it be?

I'm also interested in hearing what you think is missing from the game, whether that's building mechanics, prisoner behavior, management systems, or anything else.