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Prison Tycoon 3™: Lockdown cover art

Prison Tycoon 3™: Lockdown

Gamebryo · Cosmi Valusoft · 2008-01-29

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 29, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Crack that Whip! Take reigns of a privately run prison. You are responsible for the care, custody, and control of individuals who have been arrested. Begin with a low security prison and build it up to a SuperMax. From construction to daily operations, you must protect society while turning a profit. It's time for lockdown.

0
playing now
23%
positive of 124 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
20/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 67% of 5,944 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.0k–9.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 124 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at WinGameStore (2015-09-04) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 13 of 22 observed days · $9.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-282015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-10-23 — best price $2.492016-04-28 — best price $2.492016-08-22 — best price $4.992016-11-03 — best price $9.992017-01-23 — best price $1.992017-04-20 — best price $1.992017-09-18 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $2.992018-04-20 — best price $9.992018-10-29 — best price $3.992019-12-19 — best price $3.492020-05-23 — best price $8.992020-06-14 — best price $8.992020-07-13 — best price $9.992020-08-19 — best price $9.992020-09-12 — best price $9.992020-10-21 — best price $7.342020-12-08 — best price $9.992021-01-28 — best price $9.992021-02-24 — best price $9.992021-04-05 — best price $8.992021-05-19 — best price $7.342021-06-11 — best price $7.342021-07-17 — best price $7.342021-08-18 — best price $7.342021-10-05 — best price $7.342021-11-09 — best price $7.342021-12-28 — best price $7.342022-02-25 — best price $7.342022-04-08 — best price $7.342022-06-19 — best price $7.342022-08-22 — best price $7.342024-03-21 — best price $9.992025-05-23 — best price $9.992025-11-29 — best price $9.992026-05-30 — best price $7.482026-08-28 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

StrategySimulation

Census log

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

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