r/prisonarchitect • • Aug 31 '26

Game News/Reviews Closed Beta Sign up!

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504 Upvotes

Hello Architects! 

We are opening sign-ups for a new Closed Beta for Prison Architect 2, starting September 9th 2026. The signup sheet will remain open through September 2nd. 

🌟 Learn How: https://pdxint.at/pa2forumclosedbetatest


r/prisonarchitect • • Apr 08 '26

Game News/Reviews New Closed Beta!

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228 Upvotes

Greetings Architects! 🏗️

Today we are once more opening sign-ups for a new Closed Beta for Prison Architect 2, starting April 14, 2026. The signup sheet will remain open through April 12th.

⭐️Learn How: https://pdxint.at/pa2-beta-signup


r/prisonarchitect • • 19h ago

Image/Album Welcome to Dinostop Correctional! Come for the court order, stay for the fancy yard.

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r/prisonarchitect • • 19h ago

Image/Album E. Peterbus Unum

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22 Upvotes

Peter's prison, 'Tis of thee.


r/prisonarchitect • • 13h ago

PC Question UI is completely broken

5 Upvotes

I've downloaded the game off of epic, and for some reason the UI of the game is broken. On windowed mode text is cut off and the buttons trigger point does not match the position (I need to position my cursor slightly above the button for it to be over it). On boarderless window I have the issue of I can not see my mouse. Is there any way for me to fix this or can I just not play the game?


r/prisonarchitect • • 1d ago

Image/Album Fork found in kitchen!

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448 Upvotes

Crazy contraband alert during shakedown


r/prisonarchitect • • 1d ago

PC Question Why wont the foundation settle?

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13 Upvotes

This is the Steam release on PC for Prison Architect 1. I already tried getting the foundation to connect with the kitchen foundation, and it has four doors connected to it. It's just not finishing?


r/prisonarchitect • • 2d ago

Image/Album What does this symbol mean?

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40 Upvotes

I know it’s related to the gangs but don’t know what it is telling me


r/prisonarchitect • • 1d ago

Image/Album Warden is missing!

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13 Upvotes

Real funny guys who kidnapped my warden


r/prisonarchitect • • 2d ago

Discussion After checking, the Connected The Rock map and the island version of The Rock map are actually not the same.

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So I just went ahead and built Connected The Rock right in the ocean the same way as the island version of The Rock, and turns out they really are different. You can clearly see a big chunk of the area actually got registered as a room, but the island version of The Rock doesn't work that way. I honestly can't tell what the difference is that needs fixing, so I figured I'd just come ask.


r/prisonarchitect • • 2d ago

PC Question Is it possible to prevent guards from idling in certain canteens?

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56 Upvotes

There are just over a dozen small 4x3 canteens that my guards sometimes idle in, but I absolutely DO NOT want them to during meal hours. The canteens are all for supermax and legendary prisoners, and are designed to ensure as little contact with the prisoners as possible. Is it possible for me to stop (or at least reduce) the guards from idling in these canteens?


r/prisonarchitect • • 1d ago

Mod/App are there any updated list of mods that really still work fine with current version of game?

4 Upvotes

Title really, i noticed some mods like clearer needs seem to be abandoned ... was there any posts or something that indicates whether mod is still functional or not?

or even a must have list of current mods for game? ... thx everyone!


r/prisonarchitect • • 2d ago

PC Question A question about crop distribution

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I'm doing my first prison with a minimum, medium and maximum sectors all in one. I think this might be the only competent prison I've done yet.

This is my prison so far

Right now, I have a problem with my crops. They used to only distribute to kitchens, but that clogged up my kitchens and there was too much food, so I chose to send them all to exports (as you might be able to tell, I need the money anyway...)

I'm pretty sure using food bought from outside is worse than crop-grown food, but I'm not committed enough to actually research how much to distribute to kitchens. Is there any way to have my farms send around the same amount kitchens need for food, and the rest all to exports, without any excess food rotting/not being used?

Also, any tips on how to improve my prison in any way would be welcome.


r/prisonarchitect • • 2d ago

PC Question Weird Corpse Backlog

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I need help, because it seems every time I make a prison, it goes FINE for a little bit, then at some arbitrary point it does THIS, and there are bodies EVERYWHERE in the prison.

And as much as it's kinda funny, the bodies are starting to cover up the reception and now prisoners are stuck outside and not entering the prison. I have like 30 free guards are any given moment and they just DON'T get checked in. I am so lost as to why.

Now I'm all fine making a prison that could make dictator blush but this is ridiculous. Any help? I That big courtyard where the prisoners are currently playing in traffic USED To be deliveries before I move it to my front door. I just have no idea why it's broken.I'll prolly just move it back, but there's no obstructions, all staff have keys, the reception is regular doors, I am just... lost.


r/prisonarchitect • • 2d ago

PC Question Should I turn gangs on?

9 Upvotes

I recently got back into the game playing on my basic prison of 61 inmates from like 10 years ago. I do enjoy the managing aspect of the game more than building, and kinda feel like the normal events aren’t enough of a challenge considering my money.

I bought the gangs DLC, but am kinda nervous to turn it on. I experimented with it briefly on a second save and had fun, but I’m worried about the long term effects lol.

For a smallish well secured prison, would it completely screw everything up after a while? And if not, what gang difficulty should I choose?


r/prisonarchitect • • 2d ago

PC Question Why won't my prisoners work?

5 Upvotes

They have time for it, they can access the work places, there are enough qualified prisoners. I also made sure they have work privileges and most aren't suppressed. Still nobody is working. Does anyone know this issue / how to solve it?

Edit: found the issue. In the privileges tab I didn't notice the prison labour privilege, and thought the work program privilege means allowing them to work since it just says "work" until you over on it for the tooltip. Oops


r/prisonarchitect • • 3d ago

Mobile Question Let us play on Mobile!

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22 Upvotes

I had the game bought, but out of nowhere the game disappeared, I had to install an old version to play it on my cell phone, it could perfectly be played

I don't know why they took the game away, all those people who bought it were scammed (like me)

Just make the game for the latest versions of Android and make it available on all devices


r/prisonarchitect • • 3d ago

Game News/Reviews Even though there are more guards than prisoners, they stay handcuffed. How do I fix this? / brazil, mesmo tendo mais guardas do que prisioneiros, eles ficam algemados, como resolvo isso?

6 Upvotes

help / ajuda:(


r/prisonarchitect • • 4d ago

Steam Workshop Prison Infested Bay (premade plot challenge)

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As news spread across the country of a new infection waking up the dead, you are phoned by your boss that you still have to come to work tomorrow.

Survive and thriv-, err, make profit in these undead infested lands. With a low budged and no chance of the government approving land expansion, you will have to make use of the land you got. Recover supplies and recruit survivors to your staff to make up for the budget shortcomings.

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Probably requires all DLC, including Perfect Storm.

The mods listed in the side-bar are mandatory and must be in the same order in the mod menu (well, besides Alerts Fix if you use Tyr's patch, then you can skip that), but you could try running this modpack (or some mods from it) with your prison for an even better experience: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2864035499

-> Feel free to upload your save files if you use this premade plot.

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Download link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3826043200

Highly inspired by Buchannon Bay from Console edition and recreated with new content.


r/prisonarchitect • • 5d ago

Image/Album Another Tiny Prison

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99 Upvotes

Maybe next time I should build a prison on a perfect (64.48) map size.


r/prisonarchitect • • 6d ago

Image/Album Solitary roulette, lucky guy gets to enjoy all the luxuries a man can enjoy in prison whilst the others have to watch heaven thru the bars of hell

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483 Upvotes

that'll get them to reform


r/prisonarchitect • • 6d ago

Image/Album First prison outside tutorial

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18 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I just finished let inmates in to my first prison after completing the tutorial. This is what I have now, let me know what you guys think and give me feedback, btw it’s nowhere near finished so no judging


r/prisonarchitect • • 6d ago

Image/Album what do u think about my prison

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r/prisonarchitect • • 6d ago

Mobile Question As of 2026, are there any mods for the mobile version?

1 Upvotes

I only Seen Post from so 5 years ago so i Wanted to ask If anything changed.


r/prisonarchitect • • 6d ago

Video/Let's Play worked open and close toilet

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