Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Prison Architect playtime stats
280 tracked Steam players have spent 1.3 years in Prison Architect, 40 hours each on average; the median player has 8.9 hours. The top 10% have 91 hours or more, while 22% are still under two hours, inside Steam's refund window. Over the last 30 days 0.4% of active players played it, 75 hours in all, most of all on Mondays. A typical day of play lasts 4.7 hours. Its players also play RimWorld, Captain of Industry and Oxygen Not Included.
Total playtime
= 11,122 hours total
across 280 players
Avg per player
median 8.9h
Avg day of play
per player, on days they play
Loyalty
of its players' Steam time · top game for 0 players
New players
first played it in the last 30 days
Achievements
avg unlocked · 6 players at 100%
Prison Architect over time
UTC days. Each line is scaled to its own range; hover a day for the values. Today is still in progress.
Trend
last 30 days vs the 30 beforeShare of active players
6 players of 1,551
0.4%
down 0.5 pts
Share of hours played
75h in 30 days
0.1%
Hours per player
in the last 30 days
13h
up 23%
Shares, not raw counts: we track more players every week, so raw totals mostly show our own growth.
Weekday pattern
avg hours, UTCBusiest on Mondays, 99% above an average day.
Hours played per day
all tracked players, UTC days · hover a dayDays played
20
Tracked playtime
98h
Avg per day
4.9h
Biggest day
24h
Oct 12
Most players
2
Oct 13
Favorite day
Monday
Top players
Full leaderboard →- 1
Cavern Crawl
2,581h - 2
Kizzycocoa
425h - 3
- 4
FirstVortex274h - 5
Naptime Hero216h - 6
schmitendorf201h - 7
Kolvarg
194h - 8
vesner184h - 9
Donti
178h - 10
Bomkarl
177h
How long players stay
lifetime hours per player- Under 1h39 (14%)
- 1–10h104 (37%)
- 10–50h83 (30%)
- 50–100h32 (11%)
- 100–500h21 (8%)
- 500h+1 (0%)
22% of players have under 2 hours, inside Steam's refund window.
Top countries
by tracked players- United States75 players15% of its players
- United Kingdom20 players20% of its players
- Germany16 players16% of its players
Canada14 players22% of its players
Australia8 players15% of its players
Netherlands5 players19% of its players
Players also play
from its players' most played games, updated nightly
RimWorld42% also play it
Captain of Industry7.9% also play it
Oxygen Not Included21% also play it
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Manor Lords7.9% also play it
FTL: Faster Than Light11% also play it