Comparison

The Prison Simulator vs Prison Tycoon Simulator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

The Prison Simulator

Experience life as a prison warden, managing every aspect of your correctional facility. Balance inmate needs, staff, and external pressures to maintain order and prevent riots. Grow your prison from humble beginnings into a thriving, efficient institution.

Highlights
  • Build and expand prison infrastructure
  • Manage prison economy and resources
  • Maintain order and prevent riots
  • Balance inmate, staff, and external pressures
  • Hire staff and set rules
  • Make strategic decisions with consequences
Features
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Try yourself as a prison warden. You start with a small prison made of just a few barracks, and only you decide how it will grow. Maintain order to prevent fights, manage the economy and constantly make sure hunger riots never begin. But that’s not all. In this prison simulator, you must constantly balance between greedy officials focused on profit, mafia bosses running shady deals, and inmates who only dream of getting out as soon as possible. Every decision has consequences: increase security and inmate dissatisfaction will rise; make a deal with the mafia and risk losing government trust. Develop infrastructure, open new cell blocks, improve living conditions, hire staff and set the rules behind prison walls. Can you maintain the fragile balance of power, prevent riots and turn a rundown prison into an efficient and profitable correctional facility? The choice is yours. For any questions, contact us at: support@appscraft.am

About

Prison Tycoon Simulator

Experience the life of a prisoner in this simulation game. Manage your time, build authority among inmates and guards, and even plan an escape. Unlock new skins and enjoy colorful graphics as you navigate prison life.

Highlights
  • Prison life simulation
  • Time management
  • Authority building
  • Inmate communication
  • Unlockable skins
  • Workout exercises
Features
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Get the gripping experience of prisoner’s life! Start your prison life by the code with our new Prison Tycoon Simulator game and learn how it is – to be in a cell! Dip into the fantastic prison scrambles’ atmosphere, learn new interesting things about the guards, communicate with your cellmates and just have fun! It’s not that easy to gain the authority among the other prisoners in these harsh prison conditions! You should know all gossips around you to prevent bad situations, you should work and prepare an escape… How is it possible to have time for everything? Be the best time manager for yourself and you’ll achieve a great success! Create some interesting topics that you are interested in and make the other be interested in too! Power your authority level up to communicate with your cellmates and even guards better and become really cool! Be wise and they might set you free before the official data! Live a life of a simple prisoner, do your workout exercises and just enjoy the opportunity to become a prisoner legally playing Prison Tycoon Simulator! Earn points for successfully raised reputation and unlock new skins for everything around you, even your camera toilet! Improve your authority level and become the best educated and popular prisoner in this wonderful game about prisoner’s life! Prison Tycoon Simulator features: • Ultimate prison days manager simulator • Wide range of interesting topics to increase your authority • Unlockable skins for the camera and everything else • Colorful graphics for more fun Enjoy the prisoner’s life playing Prison Tycoon Simulator game, research different themes and gain the best authority level among your cellmates!

Screenshots

The Prison Simulator4 screens
Prison Tycoon Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Prison Simulator at 4.1 against Prison Tycoon Simulator's 2.2. The Prison Simulator also leads on ratings volume (280 vs 33). Prison Tycoon Simulator's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Prison Simulator sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Prison Tycoon Simulator asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Prison Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Prison Simulator has 280 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 18% and 18% positive.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
The Prison Simulator versus Prison Tycoon Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Prison SimulatorPrison Tycoon Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (280 ratings) — better2.2 (33 ratings)
Positive reviews18.1% of reviews — better17.5% of reviews
Number of ratings280 — better33
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.48.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size135 MB158 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperAppscraftJuliia Blokhina

Customer experience

The Prison Simulator

All ratings280 ratings
Positive71.1%
Neutral13.6%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews166 reviews
Positive18.1%
Neutral16.9%
Negative65.1%

Prison Tycoon Simulator

All ratings33 ratings
Positive27.3%
Neutral6.1%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive17.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative75.0%

Bugs and requests

The Prison Simulator

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • In-app purchases charge money but don't deliver items/currency
  • Restore purchases button doesn't function
  • Mission 34: Sewing workshop income cap at 60 instead of required 65
  • Mission 16: Prisoner won't disappear or die as required
  • Mission 20: Canteen feeding progress not registering (0/10)
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  • Prisoners freeze or become immovable in certain rooms
  • Prisoner models appear in wrong locations
  • Interrogation room dialog boxes unresponsive with no close button
  • Dining hall building gets stuck in corner of screen
  • Game crashes or hangs at specific mission levels (20, 25, 34)
  • Prisoner release blocked incorrectly claiming half-term not served
  • Game music settings reset on each app launch
  • Support contact page fails to load
  • Mission objectives impossible to complete (e.g., recruit rat without torture room)
  • Game lag and performance issues

Requested features

10 requests
  • Mission restart button without waiting for timer expiration
  • Ability to change language in-game settings
  • Auto-fill features for repetitive tasks (feeding, work assignments)
  • Freedom to manage prison without strict mission constraints
  • Better tutorial and on-screen guidance for new players
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  • Ability to play custom music instead of game music
  • Cross-device synchronization for game progress
  • More female prisoner characters
  • Faster money earning methods
  • Reduced feeding costs for prisoners

Prison Tycoon Simulator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

15 purchases

The Prison Simulator

One-time15
  • 10000 coins$0.99
  • 5 tickets$0.99
  • Premium building$0.99
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  • Premium room$0.99
  • Second chance$0.99
  • Disable advertisement$0.99
  • 30000 coins$1.99
  • 15 tickets$1.99
  • 22000 coins$1.99
  • Special offer$2.99
  • Starter pack$2.99
  • Supper Pack$2.99
  • 40000 coins$2.99
  • 50 tickets$3.99
  • 100000 coins$4.99
None

Prison Tycoon Simulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Prison Simulator free?
The Prison Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Prison Tycoon Simulator free?
Prison Tycoon Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Prison Simulator or Prison Tycoon Simulator?
The Prison Simulator is rated higher. The Prison Simulator averages 4.1 out of 5 from 280 ratings, while Prison Tycoon Simulator averages 2.2 from 33 ratings.
Do The Prison Simulator or Prison Tycoon Simulator have ads?
The Prison Simulator shows ads; Prison Tycoon Simulator does not.

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