Prison Architect: Mobile

Paradox Interactive AB

In-app purchases

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!

Ratings and reviews

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.

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.

I was so excited when I saw Prison Architect Mobile. I have sunk tons and tons of hours into the pc game and was looking forward to being able to play on the go. The huge, game breaking issue for me (and many other reviewers) is the fact the hit boxes don't line up with the boxes at all. If you want to select a menu option, like "rooms" "objects" etc, you have to push to the right. I am using a Samsung Note 10 plus. Hoping you guys can get this taken care of.

What's new

Fixed logging into Paradox account