So you start out as a total green newbie and as you cause trouble and your reputation grows within the prison, you get access to more and more advanced stuff. 'All the stats that make some prisoners much tougher than others: they form your kind of RPG progression system in the game. Anything the prisoners can do in the game, you can do, so you can steal knives from the kitchen, you can make digging implements in the workshop, you can dig escape tunnels, you can recruit other prisonsers to join up and form a little posse. 'In the background we've been fleshing it out gradually until it's a whole game mode in its own right now. But you couldn't do anything that was the end of it. I made it so that you arrived at your prison on a prison bus in handcuffs - you've been put in jail at your own prison. 'It started life as one of the endgame scenarios,' explained game designer Chris Delay speaking to me at EGX 2015, 'where if you did so badly at the game you could be convicted of corporate manslaughter if there are too many deaths in your prison.

You can form gangs, raid armouries, dig tunnels - the whole complex prison simulation is yours to subvert. There's a kind of role-playing game-like character progression and you can eventually become legendary in status. That's in addition to the existing sandbox building mode.Įscape mode flips the game on its head as you attempt to break out of the prisons that either you've created with the level editor, or anyone else has created - all 12,000 community-made prisons (and counting) can be played.Īnything the prisoners can do in the game now, you will be able to do.

Prison-building game Prison Architect will leave Steam Early Access and launch with a brand new Escape mode and a fleshed out story mode on 6th October.

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