Prison Tycoon: Under New Management heads to Steam Early Access this week

If you act quickly, you can start your prison dream with a hefty 33.3% discount in place.

Ziggurat Interactive has announced the Early Access release date for Prison Tycoon: Under New Management, a new installment in the popular tycoon franchise. It will reach the service on July 1, 2021, just in time for you to play it like crazy over your Independence Day weekend.

Developed by Abylight, reboots a series that has already seen the release of five prior installments. You will encounter a "different take on what it means to be a successful warden" as you balance services and security to operate a thriving prison facility. Prisoner satisfaction doesn't happen by accident!

Features promised include:

• Five Distinct Environments: Select from tropical, tundra, taiga (boreal forest), swamp, or desert biomes, each with its own environmental challenges


• Build From Your Own Blueprints: Design every room, path, checkpoint, and cell block


• Hire Experts: Evaluate and hire staff to serve 12 different roles in running and maintaining your prison


• Secure and Protect: Maintain a secure facility using guards, cameras, watchtowers, and checkpoints


• Rehabilitate and Release: Evaluate prisoners, then provide the therapies that they need to be released, from the zero gravity room to VR therapy

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Staff article by Jason Venter (June 28, 2021) Jason Venter has been playing games for 30 years, since discovering the Apple IIe version of Mario Bros. in his elementary school days. Now he writes about them, here at HonestGamers and also at other sites that agree to pay him for his words.