Prison Architect
Short description
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
- Developer
- Double Eleven, Introversion Software
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive
- Release
- Tue, Oct 06, 2015
- Price
- $29.99
- Reviews
- 59,846
- Positive
- 89%
- Followers
- 211,707
- Owners (estimated)
- 5M – 10M
- Concurrent players
- 728
- Genres
- Indie, Simulation, Strategy
- Features
- Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $26.56, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $29.99 launch price. That is 11% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
28 data points since Oct 16, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
Lowest recorded price: $2.99 on Jun 27, 2024.
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