The Prison Simulator vs Balloon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Balloon
Guide a balloon through challenging gates, where every touch impacts your score. Test your reflexes and precision in this simple yet engaging arcade game.
- Keep balloon airborne
- Advance through gates
- Score-based gameplay
- Simple touch controls
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Try to keep the balloon up and advance trough the gates.Careful, each touch counts and could lower you score.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Balloon at 5.0 against The Prison Simulator's 4.1. Balloon also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 15) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.4). The Prison Simulator's advantage is ratings volume (280 vs 1) and device support. On price 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
Both are free to download. The Prison Simulator sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Balloon asks for nothing beyond the download.
Balloon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Prison Simulator has 280 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | The Prison Simulator | Balloon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (280 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 280 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | — |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Appscraft | Ciuta Ciprian |
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
Balloon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
The Prison Simulator
- 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
Balloon
No in-app purchases
Questions
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