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Prison Simulator

Baked Games · 2021-11-04

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player

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).

9
playing now
86%
positive of 2.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 9 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 23% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 50k–113k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,520 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$3.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$13.65-32%

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 17 of 30 observed days (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

6042026-08-11 17:00 — 12 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 12 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 22 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 52 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 51 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 27 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 60 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 22 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 24 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 35 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 24 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 23 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 44 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 18 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 32 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 41 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 14 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 26 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 24 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 16 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 32 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 23 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 15 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 18 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 30 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.992021-11-042026-08-262021-11-04 — 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 $13.652026-08-26 — best price $3.99
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…

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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