Steam reviews
Very Positive
89% of 73,300 reviews
Critic scores
83
Metacritic
Generally favorable
Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.
Strategy LiveSmall but alive
PRISON ARCHITECT
Prison Architect has 593 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 716 and its all-time peak is 862. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.
DEV · Introversion Software, Double ElevenPUB · Paradox Interactive2015
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
- Niche but breathing. Best chance to find others at peak hours.
- Currently at 69% of the all-time peak of 862 players.
- Last updated 9 months ago: 🚀 New Bundle: The Last Starship x Prison Architect 🚀.
Playing now
593
24h peak
716
24h change
▲ 19.8%
Quick verdict
Is Prison Architect still alive in 2026?
PREVIOUS 24 HOURS
GALLERY & TRAILERS
1 / 18
ACROSS PLATFORMS
STEAMLIVE
Current
593
24h peak
716
All-time
862
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
Watching now
No live streams
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Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo
No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.
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