Genre SimulationReleased Oct 6, 2015
Prison Architect
Developed by Introversion Software, Double Eleven · Published by Paradox Interactive
-75%
View on Steam$7.49
$29.99
Estimated lifetime revenue
$15.70M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$11.27M
After Steam's 28% cut
Units sold
1.06M
≈ 14 sales per review
Reviews
73,845
Very Positive89% positive
Playing now
655
9-day peak 796 · low 655
New reviews, last 9 days
-3,239
≈ -360 a day since Oct 7
History
Oct 7 – Oct 16
77.3K76.1K74.8K73.5K
Oct 7Oct 11Oct 16
Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.
How it compares
Simulation →Against the 130 most-reviewed Simulation games on Steam
Outearns 43% of them — below the group's median.
Median
$19.38M
113,507 reviews
Top 10% start at
$104.33M
This game
$15.70M
26th pct. by reviews
The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.
About
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
- Developer
- Introversion Software, Double Eleven
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive
- Genre
- Simulation
- Released
- Oct 6, 2015
- Steam app ID
- 233450
- Data updated
- Oct 16, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.