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  • I love it just one more thing...

    So maybe add some sporty and science stuff like padding cells and some computers and a lab and maybe a new staff: scientist and a scientist warden and maybe some science stuff items and something p.s do t forget new prisoners!
  • DLC Idea: Zombies

    Zombie prison:
    Build your own prison in order to contain the living dead, keeping them locked away from the rest of humanity... or at least trying to.

    Dead or wounded guards will reanimate, as will any other dead or wounded staff. Take control of NPCs to fight zombies.
    (Control guards and soldiers by selecting them and pressing “Control unit” and watch as the game becomes like like a top-down shooter, then once you’re done shooting, deselect the unit and go back to whatever you where doing in the prison.)

    Send in units of the national guard if it gets too intense for your guards to handle and conduct experiments on captured zombies.

    Please make this a thing! I need it in my life!
    Awesome game btw 🙂👍
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  • Amazing game, still needs some improvements though

    Some of my games got deleted due to the saving being weird (I’ll set the game at a certain name and it’ll change it to auto suspend to every one of them even though i turned auto save off) but what I’m really excited to see is new items. You guys added a lot of awesome new objects to the xbox version and I’m dying to see that on iOS as well, i love the items you added and iOS is much more fun and easy to play on than Xbox is! Other than that fantastic game!
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  • Complain

    I was enjoying the game but now u are making me pay? This game is terrible.
  • So buggy

    I’ve been playing Prison Architect on my console for years and I just decided to try it on iOS. I don’t even know where to start with the bugs. The most irritating one is that it forgets about my holding cells and leaves incoming inmates stranded outside forever because “there are no cells available” when yeah, there are regular cells and holding cells.

    I just had to sell a prison because it kept telling me there were no inmates assigned to my canteens ... but there were, and my inmates were starving because my cooks wouldn’t feed them.

    I mean, it’s still fun but it’s full of glitches and bugs. I wouldn’t buy it again knowing what I know now.
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  • Escape mode?

    This game is amazing, well worth the $9.00 nz for the full architect mode. But what would be even more amazing is if there was an escape mode like on the pc version. But anyway amazing game :-)
  • Amazing!! Definitely Purchase!!

    This app is amazing. It is very entertaining for everyone even if you are not into this type of stuff. Definitely 5 stars for me! If you don't usually like stuff like this, you will definitely start to like this!

    I am obsessed with this app and can't get my hands of it. I would say to download this even if you aren't to keen on this idea of Prison. This app can open a whole new world on creativity for anyone who downloads it.

    I was not too keen on the idea of Prison but now I'm literally obsessed!
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  • Overall good, but improvements would be better

    There’s a bug that if you change the “security level” of a death row prisoner, say “normal level”, it will make him no longer a death row prisoner but a normal prisoner, on the PC version of this game, death row prisoners are not allowed to change their security levels, I hope this can be fixed soon. Another thing is that it is not allowed to switch between objects when they overlay each other, so sometimes we need to remove the light that is above the thing that we want to remove, since lights have higher priority. And some descriptions are not full on the mobile version which cause confusion, for example, death row appeal can be done every four days in the game, and this is not listed on the “program page” on mobile version but do listed on the PC version. I hope such little bugs and confusion can be corrected soon.
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  • First, fix the game-breaking bugs/glitches

    The game frequently crashes when certain things are pressed. The AI seems to face multiple issues, one being that some dead bodies remain, despite having a properly functioning morgue (some bodies get did get transferred to morgue then ambulance). Other times prisoners linger around in “staff-only” areas, and there is no direct control to move prisoners. In Alcatraz, some prisoners can teleport into the water when squished and starve to death, and their bodies are unable to be removed.

    The user interface can be annoying at times, for example when the AI guards completely lock themselves out of the remote door controlled prison, the user is unable to click the door to manually open it due to a prisoner blocking it.

    The editing features aren’t very convenient or intuitive. For example, having to manually wire up each door/cctv. Or even a select all feature which includes workmen is missing. A rotate feature and larger selection area for the copy-paste would be much more convenient.

    Overall, a great game, but the current bugs can cause frustration and can literally break a save (from many uncleared dead bodies). The editing features and user interface also seem unpolished for a released game.
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  • Its great but

    When you make a prison and spend a lot of time on it like months. But at some point you get tired of it and want to make another one right? So you save the prison and start a new one. You spend a couple hours on it and have an idea for your old prison. So you save your new prison and go to load your old one but. Its gone. No chance to load it back up. I just did this and im super upset about it. It really needs to be fixed.
    Its great but this problem really ruins it.

    Edit: i just made a new prison got it up and running but a glitch happened that makes my workers not build. They will demolish but they will NOT build.
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