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Prison Simulator

Baked Games · 2021-11-04

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 02, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 03, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Nov 04, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 30, 2022 (Xbox One)

Get a taste of prison life! Become a prison guard and deal with dangerous convicts. Prison management, lots of daily activities. Will you become the best guard in history? Or maybe you'll turn into the worst scumbag this Prison has ever seen?

Prison Simulator is an Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2021, priced at $19.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 2520 reviews).

11
playing now
86%
positive of 2.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3.77★
PlayStation Store rating (469 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 11 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 174 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity down 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (791 reviews).
  • · Top 10% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 51k–114k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,538 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2026-04-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 15 of 33 observed days · $16.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
67767720212026Week of 2021-11-01: 677 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 114 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2142026-09-15 15:00 — 12 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 6 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 15 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 5 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 11 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 11 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 9 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 12 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 7 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 7 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 8 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 19 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 8 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 15 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 19 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 8 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 8 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 16 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 10 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 10 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
40912Nov 2021Aug 2026Nov 2021 — avg 409 · peak 1,609Jan 2022 — avg 107 · peak 235Mar 2022 — avg 43 · peak 96May 2022 — avg 41 · peak 94Jul 2022 — avg 33 · peak 102Sep 2022 — avg 24 · peak 52Nov 2022 — avg 25 · peak 58Jan 2023 — avg 42 · peak 95Mar 2023 — avg 29 · peak 72May 2023 — avg 21 · peak 53Jul 2023 — avg 44 · peak 202Sep 2023 — avg 19 · peak 43Nov 2023 — avg 21 · peak 50Jan 2024 — avg 22 · peak 60Mar 2024 — avg 25 · peak 55May 2024 — avg 32 · peak 95Jul 2024 — avg 25 · peak 65Sep 2024 — avg 22 · peak 71Nov 2024 — avg 24 · peak 66Jan 2025 — avg 26 · peak 61Mar 2025 — avg 32 · peak 301May 2025 — avg 27 · peak 73Jul 2025 — avg 28 · peak 99Sep 2025 — avg 23 · peak 65Nov 2025 — avg 20 · peak 51Jan 2026 — avg 51 · peak 428Mar 2026 — avg 14 · peak 34May 2026 — avg 16 · peak 40Jul 2026 — avg 12 · peak 34Aug 2026 — avg 24 · peak 62
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$3.992021-11-042026-10-142021-11-04 — best price $17.992022-01-11 — best price $15.992022-03-28 — best price $15.592022-06-23 — best price $15.392022-11-22 — best price $14.992022-12-22 — best price $14.592023-03-16 — best price $13.992023-05-28 — best price $15.792023-07-16 — best price $13.792023-11-21 — best price $13.192023-12-21 — best price $12.792024-03-14 — best price $11.792024-06-10 — best price $11.392024-08-18 — best price $10.992024-09-15 — best price $16.742024-10-01 — best price $16.692024-10-10 — best price $7.992024-10-18 — best price $16.642024-11-26 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-16 — best price $9.992025-02-02 — best price $19.992025-02-16 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $8.872025-04-08 — best price $19.992025-06-27 — best price $8.792025-09-11 — best price $7.792025-10-06 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-20 — best price $19.792026-04-28 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $7.992026-08-09 — best price $17.382026-08-17 — best price $13.652026-09-16 — best price $19.992026-10-07 — best price $19.992026-10-14 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
90.7%
earned "One.. Two.. Three?"
15.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing4 DLC

18 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Czech, Spanish - Latin America…

Post-launch support: 4 DLC released, first 2025-01-31, latest 2025-11-06 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,3510%84
PS4 (PlayStation)4046%65
Xbox One (Xbox)3071%64
PS4 (PlayStation)2227%65
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSRPGCrimeFunnyActionCasualSandboxStealthRealisticOpen World

Census log

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

Recent updates

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