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Prison City cover art

Prison City

Retroware · 2023-08-28

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 16, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Oct 16, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Aug 29, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 16, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 16, 2023 (Xbox One), Nov 16, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S)

Prison City is a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle Techno-Terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses.

84%
positive of 182 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.41★
PlayStation Store rating (92 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 25,595 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 182 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$7.99-20%
GOG$9.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.99 at Steam (2025-03-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 40 of 64 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520232026Week of 2023-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$16.99$6.992023-08-292026-10-092023-08-29 — best price $16.992023-11-28 — best price $16.992023-12-18 — best price $9.992024-02-12 — best price $7.992024-04-11 — best price $7.992024-06-25 — best price $7.992024-07-29 — best price $7.992024-09-23 — best price $9.992024-11-05 — best price $7.992024-11-27 — best price $7.492025-01-09 — best price $7.992025-02-21 — best price $7.992025-05-05 — best price $7.992025-06-26 — best price $6.992025-08-25 — best price $7.992025-10-13 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $6.992026-03-09 — best price $7.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-07 — best price $7.992026-05-11 — best price $7.992026-05-19 — best price $7.992026-06-15 — best price $9.992026-07-17 — best price $9.992026-08-10 — best price $9.992026-09-14 — best price $7.992026-09-20 — best price $7.992026-09-24 — best price $6.992026-09-28 — best price $6.992026-10-02 — best price $6.992026-10-06 — best price $6.992026-10-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
17.3%
earned "Car Smasher"
1.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-08-29 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2D1990'sActionLinearSci-fiColorfulAdventureControllerOld SchoolPlatformer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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