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Prison Life
An online game that you'll play with 3-11 players as a Prisoner or a Guard and will try to escape or prevent escapes. Loot, Craft, and make your way to the exit, or investigate and arrest wanted players as a guard!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Imagine a point in your life where you have lost everything. Your parents disown you, your friends leave you, your favorite goldfish dies of depression. You feel nothing anymore, every feeling of pain and suffering has turned you numb, the tunnel feels like nothing but darkness.…”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played“Honestly, one of my favorite friend slop games but other people ruined it. Its a ton of fun.. until the rando decides he doesnt want to be the cop and leaves. Also, the servers are dead. I hope that one day this game rises from the ashes but I know it wont happen. 10/10 would…”
— a player, Steam review · 24 hrs played“I was playing with some friends i was fun till the guards starting camping the exit with traps or just camping there and leaving us no way to win. if the devs can make it so guards cant stand there for too long or disabling traps in the zone.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update 1.5 - Moving Train Escape, New Prison Floor, Many items!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2125160/Prison_Life_2/ New items! Pickaxe: You will buy it off a new NPC that sells pickaxes for 1$ Coal: mine coal rocks underground to get coal Coal Pack : craftab
Prison Editor Is Released With Workshop Support With Over 350 Objects!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2125160/Prison_Life_2/ After a very long month of hard work, the map editor is finally ready to be released! I'm going to do more updates to it very soon so please s
Price Drop to 5$ & Update 1.1
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2125160/Prison_Life_2/ Why I dropped the price only a week after the launch? As the game needs a lot of people to play together I decided that lowering the price is
Prison Editor Releasing Soon!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2125160/Prison_Life_2/ I am excited to announce my upcoming Prison Editor which will allow you to create your very own prisons and customize them to your liking. - A
New Role - Traitor Guard!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2125160/Prison_Life_2/ Collaborates with prisoners to help them escape. Pretends to be a regular guard and avoid suspicion. Becomes a prisoner if revealed. Sabotages
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Casual, Free To Play, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Multiplayer · Free to Play · Online Co-Op · PvP · Detective · Casual · Social Deduction · Strategy · Cute · RPG · Strategy RPG · Choose Your Own Adventure (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · In-App Purchases · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian,… |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 8/8.1, 10, 11 Processor: 2.4 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Storage: 500 MB available space