Welcome Wardens!Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Key Features:Customized Confinement
Allocate resources to optimize your compound, but don’t restrict the flow of the crowd lest you encounter a flood, fire, fight, or full-blown riot.
Invest and Innovate
Tap federal money with grant applications & direct your funds to combat disease, gang activity, litigation, and more!
Management and Muscle
Ensure your prison is *mostly* ethical and safe with top-notch staff including armed guards, psychologists, doctors, lawyers and snitches.

Detention by Design
Each prisoner’s criminal history requires custom treatment programs, labor schedules, and reform workshops.
Lockdown Showdown
Attempt a high-stakes escape of your own supermax prison in Escape Mode, or try Online mode to test one of 12,000 player-created prisons. Expand your empire limitlessly in Sandbox mode.

1. To download, click the button on the right. You’ll be taken to the download page.
2. On the download page, click 'Download' and wait for the file to finish downloading.
3. Once Prison Architect has finished downloading, right-click the .rar file and select 'Extract to current folder'.(If you run into any errors while extracting, make sure you’re using WinRAR or 7-Zip.)
4. Open the unzipped folder, find the .exe file, and double click it to run. (If there's a _readme.txt file in the folder, it's probably worth checking out.)
5. Enjoy. If you get any missing .dll errors, check for a 'Redist' or '_CommonRedist' folder and install everything inside.