Prison Architect
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This simulation strategy game, released in 2015, tasks players with building and managing a maximum-security prison. It has garnered 59,709 reviews on Steam. The developer attribution is unknown.
Overview
Prison Architect is a 2015 Indie game developed by Introversion Software and published by Paradox Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 59,773 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Introversion Software with publisher Paradox Interactive is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.4 million to 7.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Prison Architect can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
59,773
Positive
89%
Steam appid
233450
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.03.4M to 7.9M
units (median: 5.7M)
≈ $58.4M to $136.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Prison Architect at roughly 3.4 million to 7.9 million copies, with a median around 5.7 million, derived from its 59,773 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $97.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $19.64Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $19.64 to $29.99, averaging $28.37 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $19.64 on 2026-04-11.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Humble Store -78%$6.60 Buy
- Fanatical -76%$7.04 Buy
- Green Man Gaming -75%$7.49 Buy
- Steam reference$29.99 Buy
- GOG.com$29.99 Buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
SimulationBuildingSandboxBase-BuildingColony SimStrategyManagementCity Builder2DTop-DownMultiplayerResource ManagementEconomySingleplayerModdableCapitalismFunnyReplay ValueIndieCasual
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Prison Architect sold?
- indielist estimates Prison Architect has sold between 3,407,061 and 7,949,809 units (median 5,678,435), derived from its 59,773 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Prison Architect?
- Prison Architect was developed by Introversion Software and published by Paradox Interactive.
- When was Prison Architect released?
- Prison Architect was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Prison Architect have on Steam?
- Prison Architect has 59,773 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Prison Architect sold?
- indielist estimates Prison Architect has sold between 3,407,061 and 7,949,809 units (median 5,678,435), derived from its 59,773 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Prison Architect?
- Prison Architect was developed by Introversion Software and published by Paradox Interactive.
- When was Prison Architect released?
- Prison Architect was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Prison Architect have on Steam?
- Prison Architect has 59,773 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Prison Architect within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Introversion Software's other releases and Paradox Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Prison Architect sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Prison Architect page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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