Why I buy this one ?
- Begin with a low security prison and build it up to a maximum security facility for the world's most dangerous criminals
- Pick expert wardens, guards, cooks and rehabilitation experts - while balancing your budget
- Maintain prisoner morale to avoid violence and minimize the potential for financial meltdown
- Find the right balance - too lenient and you'll be wide-open to gang takeover, too harsh and you'll cause a riot

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What our customer's say!

"This game is underated", This is really a much better game than people are giving it credit for. I found a Prison Tycoon strategy guide written by Soldyne online. It really showed me how complicated and fun this game really is. If you're thinking about buying the game do a search for the guide & see all the possibilities. If you've already bought the game and aren't enjoying it then you really need to look at his guide.

I've been playing this game for days and got tired of the music after about an hour so just turned it off in Options screen. Usually do that in games I play anyway.

"OMG..don't buy!!", This game was a total waste of money and hard drive space. First off, like everybody else said...this game had terrible graphics...you cant rotate the screen. I wouldn't buy the second one. I want to take it back and get my money back but you can't. This game actually looked pretty cool to play until you get to the screen. You only get 3 places to buy your prison. You can't control the prisoners..they do what they want to do. Its hard to break up fights...I wouldn't recommed this at all.. go buy a different game.

"Borrrrrrring", I used to work in the prison system here in Texas as a correctional officer and I had to quit because the stress of the job nearly killed me. Dr's. found evidence of a heart attack I never knew I had while I was working there and after playing this game I have to say that it was more fun working as a corrections officer than it is playing this game.

"Not sure I can add anything....", I have to admit that I don't know if I can add anything to what the other reviews have already stated. This game sucked, plain and simple. The graphics were not great. The game play was difficult to understand. Controls were confusing and didn't function as they were supposed to. Everything was so random. You could build the prison but it didn't really seem like you had much control over what the prisoners did. You just watched as they basically chose for themselves what they were going to do. Any attempt to control or influence their actions seemed pointless.

Slow, choppy and not nearly enough options.

"Save your money", Put it towards something better. humm lets see the list: First it crashed my computer. 4 times. Finally went to the older computer [2003] to load it. It crashed it. Ok I restarted and stripped out anything running. It finally installed. oh wow. Started the game. It crashed. Started it again. It crashed. Finally it started. Graphics? If you have played Sims2.. PT doesn't make 1. Extremely rough graphics. Takes forever to load. Controls are really bad. To change camera angles use the center mouse key or cntrl and left mouse key but mine only work if I use cntrl and center mouse key and then it jerks me all over the place. Really bad angles with very little control. Figuring out how to run it from the directions was pure hades. I lucked into a very good walkthru on the net. Delete is hidden in a control that gives you no sign it is delete. I still haven't figured out how I [or the game] did what it did. You are going to spend a lot of time wondering around in the dark. It would have been much much better if they had taken a page out of Sims2 instead of the bad interface, lousy controls and bad programming. And it does all this on two computers that loads and runs Sims 2 without a problem...

Avoid a headache... Buy something else.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"CHEAP PIECE OF GARBAGE!", This game is ridiculous! A complete waste of money! Absolutely NO fun factor at all! Everyone I know, who has this game, tells me there must be something wrong with their version because the graphics are all messed up and it only plays half the time on their computer. Hmmmmmmm...FOUR different people, all with different discs, complaining about the discs being defective? This game is obviously GARBAGE!
I've played Prison Tycoon for about two days now and I already want to break the disc in half! When the game does decide to work (about 1/3 of the time) it's NO FUN WHATSOEVER! You can't navigate the screen anywhere (which makes it impossible to see anything), the other controls are just as awful, this game ranks in the top five MOST BORING GAMES OF ALL TIME! I can't even get the cheat codes to work! Buying this game was one of the stupidest things I've EVER done! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS LAME, WORTHLESS, PATHETIC TRASH!


"Monumental waste of time and money.", After seeing it on various store shelves staring at me, I figured I'd give it a spin...

Prison Tycoon sounds like a pretty cool concept- Build a prison your way, making it as hard or soft on prisoners as you want while dealing with riots and other cool stuff. But the concept behind this game is where the coolness ends...

Although it's a budget title, The interface and sound outright suck, and the game gets repetative waaaay too quick. The graphics are passable, but in no way compensate for the game's other brutal shortcomings. The game has cool building and customization options, but they are too few and too bland.

What could have been a pretty awesome budget title turned into a gigantic dud. Don't touch this waste of time with a 10-foot pole unless you just had a lobotomy and enjoy sitting at your computer with a blank stare. For a better budget tycoon-type experience, pick up RCT or Tropico.

Pros: Awesome, fresh concept (for a tycoon game).

Cons: Gameplay, graphics, sound, interface, etc, etc...

Overall: An unfortunate waste of time and money on what could have otherwise been a potentially great game.

"Don't waste your money!", I enjoy some of the other titles from the Tycoon set of games, so I thought this would be as much fun as Roller Coaster Tycoon and some of the others. I couldn't have been more wrong!

First of all, this game does NOT come with an instruction booklet or anything that would help you learn to play or even what keys do what. I had to scroll through a readme file just to figure out some of the most basic things, and then I had to search through online walkthroughs to learn how to play. Very time consuming!

Next, the game just isn't that much fun. If you are able to build and manage a prison at a low custody level without problems (can be done) then just make sure not to make even one mistake! That's all it will take to get a riot started that will go on and on despite any logical responses.

In short, this game has a good concept but poor design.

Not recommended to any avid gamer.

"Long and drawn out!", Well, first of all, I have to give this game a VERY low rating, because it seems to ME, you have to use the money cheat JUST TO GET STARTED in the game. Otherwise, you will wind up not even having enough money to house the inmates.

Secondly, all this game consists of is pretty much waiting for the next parole period to come up so you can decide who stays, and who gets out (based on length of time inmate has been there, how many rehabilitation projects he's completed, how many fights he's been in, and what, if any, gang affiliations he has). There's really nothing you can do about the fighting that goes on in this game between inmates. I have yet to see a guard break up a fight. So to me this game is just long and boring.

The graphics, in my opinion, ARE kinda cute, but not $20 worth.

"Cute - and you can rotate the camera!", I read a lot of camera comments, but no one ever seemed to google the game name to find this: http://www.valusoftsupport.com/KBArticle.asp?kbid=4874

You can rotate the camera, it's just an odd method - click the mouse scroller (if you have one) and move the mouse, strange but true ;)

I think it's fun, and I'm an avid gamer, nice change of pace.