Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.

Joining me today is our friend from the Shut Up and Sit Down Show, freelance writer Paul Dean.

Hi, how are you doing?

Not too bad.

Excited to talk about this game, because it is an odd one, and you wrote a pretty excellent review of it.

Today we're going to be talking about prison architect, the prison

management simulator from introversion software. Paul, I feel like this is a game that's sort of

been in the news for a few years, actually. Like, I think you and I were both sort of relatively

new at PC games and when this started becoming one of those games

that people just never get tired of hearing about. But even so, we should probably catch

up people who maybe haven't heard of this game or have been chased off by the premise. What

is prison architect and what makes it unique? Well, first of all, I think you're right.

I feel like people have been talking about prison architecture a long time,

and I think that might be tied into what makes it so, you know,

the reason for that is the things that make it so unusual,

the things that make it so weirdly unique.

It is a management simulator about running a prison or a correctional facility where inmates come in and they're essentially like tenants, you are paid money to look after

inmates until they have served their term. And it's essentially like running a kind of a bizarre hotel almost,

because while they are there, they create you money, but you have to feed them and you have to

make sure they are at least nominally taken care of. And within this, there are additional layers

of how much exactly you want to actually get into being a correctional

facility or providing them spiritual guidance. And there is also just the very practical

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