Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 05:55 am
Prison Empire Tycoon－Idle Game – Strategy Game Review
Prison Empire Tycoon－Idle Game is a Strategy/Simulation/Entertainment game from Codigames SL, first launched in 10th June 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 85,649+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Prison Empire Tycoon－Idle Game Stand Out
Will you be able to control a prison and become a prison tycoon?
Hold the reins of the business and become rich reforming prisoners around the world.
Start running a small low-security prison and work hard to make your reputation grow. Improve every detail and turn your modest jail into a high-security prison with the most dangerous inmates under control.
Deal with the needs of your facilities and take the proper decisions to expand your business with no internal conflicts. Enlarge the prison yard, customize the administration department, provide security equipment to the guards, or even improve the cells’ ventilation. Every single choice will have an impact on your penitentiary. Invest your idle money intelligently.
MEET THE INMATE BASIC NEEDS:
Prisoners have indicators of personal qualities that you should administer to avoid riots and escape plans. Upgrade their cells, or add better beds and increase their comfort; buy some bookshelves, build a basketball court, or install some telephone booths to keep them entertained; spend your profits in have a better kitchen and better meals so you will have well-nourished inmates; keep the facilities clean and get new showers to maintain good hygiene.
MANAGE YOUR STAFF:
Your prison will need an efficient working team. Study the situation and hire or fire workers depending on your workflow and your growth strategy. Employ kitchen personnel, doctors, builders, janitors or guards, as well as office workers. Each department will cover basic needs in your business, and you should manage your team wisely to make your jail profitable.
INVEST IN YOUR FACILITIES:
Inmates and staff need a great manager with a good vision for development. Improve and upgrade the staff departments to have better working conditions: maintenance room, offices, kitchen, infirmary, laundry room, or the security quarter. Don’t forget about prisoners: upgrade their showers, the prison yard, open new sectors, add cell modules, improve the visiting room and the canteen. Take charge of the water and electricity supplies and make your penitentiary more comfortable.
KEEP YOUR PRISON SAFE:
Maintain a good reputation by controlling riots and fighting. Run your prison wisely to keep your convicts happy and provide good protection equipment to your guards. Be aware of dangerous captives that could try to escape and use the isolation cell if necessary.
REHABILITATE PRISONERS TO SUCCEED:
Earn money and make idle profits thanks to the reformation of prisoners. The government and society will be proud of you! Make your reputation grow thanks to your business strategy and receive offers to run bigger prisons.
If you like management and idle games, you will enjoy Prison Empire Tycoon! A casual easy-to-play game where strategic decisions have to be taken to grow a prison business with profitable results. Improve your empire starting from a small and modest jail and unlock visible progress in your premises. Transform your small business into the best high-security prison in the world and become the best prison manager around the world!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Prison Empire Tycoon－Idle Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Minor bug fixes, and performance improvements
Download & Availability
Prison Empire Tycoon－Idle Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Prison Empire Tycoon－Idle Game on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game but WE NEED MORE PRISONS!!! Im clearing them way too quickly. MORE MORE MORE.
We love this game so much, its fun to play and we can play for hours on end. Ive downloaded countless Idke tycoon games and this is by far the best. It doesnt require purchases but offers them for incentives. We may have bought one if it wasnt so expensive.
Its been over a year and Im still having this issue. We tried downloading and redownloading – app crashes right before the game loads.. This bug is still not fixed.
This game is good but we cant even get in, its not loading at all.
All we wish was we got to chose there schedule. It would be awesome to choose what time they eat and do stuff.
Ive played this game for a long time. It is good for car rides and field trips. It is very fun and addicting. We really like it. Theres no ads and you get rewarded just by upgrading stuff really recommend it.
We just reinstalled this game after a couple years and its so fun and satisfying simply great exquisite game 5 stars.
We love the game but its become unplayable please please please please please please please FIX THE CRASHING PROBLEM.
Pretty good game, its just a little bit too hard. We keep running out of money! But its really fun.
We love the game.. But we have maxed out a ton of locations and collected the passes benefits but we dont have enough to get the next location. Ive been stuck like this.
We were already addicted to the game but the new update where it has max instead of the blackout numbers perfecto.
This isnt a bad game, at all, actually! We actually returned to it now and its really fun! The only problem is that when we try to play, the prison guard mentions something about a prison loan, causing the game to soft lock, and causing us to close and reopen the app, but after a little bit of playing, it happens again.
We would give it five stars we just started playing this game a few months ago and Ive already maxed out all of the available prisons and theres still no new prisons and the side games are nearly impossible to play theres almost no point in playing them.
Ive enjoyed playing this game a lot and want to continue to play it. Im working on finishing three prisons right now but the app seems to take a lot of battery and heat up our phone which in turn seems to make the game crash often. It was not so much a problem in the beginning but now its crashing so much we cant advance in the game.
We really do enjoy playing the game of course , like we just have one problem . We have advanced a bit in the game and it keep logging us off every once in a while . As like a time span of 15 minutes & we would be happy with the game completely if that was fixed.
This game is so annoying! We don't know why we keep playing this game every time we try to play it wont stop crashing every time!!! But its still a pretty good game.
This is an awesome game! Ive been playing it for a while now and love all of the little details. Our only complaint is that this game and other games made by this creator crash. A LOT. We made sure it wasnt our phone. We get to play for maybe 5-10 minutes and then it crashes and sends us back to our Home Screen. The theme park tycoon game that they made does the same thing. Both delete any progress we make in the 5-10 minutes we played when they crash so we cannot make any progress. Devs please fix this.
We downloaded this game just a night ago and grew addicted to playing it because of how engaging it wasI even spent our money on it for a few extra coins and diamonds but then the very next day, the app glitched. We were unable to get past the loading screen and the longest Ive waited was for 30 minutes. Still, nothing. Ive reset our device, checked if the app needed to be updatedeven updated our own devicetried to delete the app and start over. STILL, nothing. Its a little frustrating, but hopefully this is just a bump in the road and the issue is resolved soon. Other than that, we enjoy this game.
So first let us say we lLOVE the game. We dont even mind the ads as there arent many. However, the game crashes all the time! Sometimes its right when we open it. Other times its when Im switching from one prison to another. If things are going good and youre having fun just wait a few minutes and the game will crash. So frustrating. We want to stick with it because we love the game but Im really hoping some patches are on the way so we can actually enjoy playing it . If you remove the issues with the game crashing it is easily a 5/5.
This may seem like just another mobile game with ads every upgrade but its not! Theres ads yes but only if you choose to watch them! Its fun, fun to upgrade and honestly fun to play in general,this probably seems like and ad from the company but its not, Its just fun. :3.
We really like this game more should play it.
Our only issue is that there are not enough blueprints available for free. We have already maxed out the free achievements and done all the quests for every prison but we still dont have enough blueprints to unlock the next prison unless if we were to buy the pass.
This game is great, we really like this game but we cant even play for more than 1 minute before the game crashes. Great game overall except for the crashes.
Im a decently far in the game now and we can load it up click on something and it crashes every time is there something we can do to fix this bc we do like the game but we cant play it without it crashing every time it started off small when swapping to prisons and stuff but now we cant even click on the screen without it crashing what should we do.
Crashes constantly. We really like this game been playing for a while but it crashes non stop and now it wont even open. Please fix.
Glitchy game that keeps crashing.
Ive been playing this game for years but this new update is irritating, we have to close the app everyday single time the guard pops up and freezes. ANNOYING. We loved this game so much pls fix this.
We might have been too harsh on our last review. Blueprints are fine with us, we do enough to get to next prison by 100% each site and collecting. The issue we have is when we play the weekly alien, mech, dragon, bum, etc prison, we open after some time to get screen lock and cannot collect the funds we waited for because of the dev urge to pop up the $2.99 press for purchases. We dont ever want that, nor most of the items. We would be more apt to make purchases if everything wasnt a full court press to but this or that. Otherwiseimpatiently waiting on the next prison.
It crashes every time we open it devs pls fix !!! We adore this game we are on iPhone 10 but all other games work fine.
We were having fun, we paid to get rid of ads, which is the main thing we purchase with games. However, then we got to Space Cooler prison. At that point, its 5000 blueprints to open the next prison, you earn about 2500 without spending real money then you have to spend MONTHS playing the weekend events to get the rest of the blueprints. As far as we can determine, it is almost impossible to unlock the next prison without spending a bunch of real money. We have been playing the weekend events for a couple months, and am not much closer to opening the next prison, which doesnt give us much hope for subsequent prisons. So save your money, you cant get far even doing weekend events, and like almost all the idle games (at least from Codigames), the last area says more coming soon, but they actually never develop the game further. We have a few Codigames idle games that have not advanced in any way in many years. They just lose interest and put them on auto pilot, aka same events over & over forever.
Enjoyable idle game. The different levels and various skins are pretty cool. We didnt experience any bugs which was nice so it was a smooth running app. BUT, it gets to a point where you absolutely cannot progress without paying which is pretty irritating. The blueprint scheme isnt our favorite at all. So, fun while we played it but we deleted cause of the paywall.
We love this game. Not sure why out of all the other idle games ive tried, we come back to this one because its relaxing and engaging without requiring too much thought. Im an avid no purchases within games-player though. Sorta defeats the purpose of only playing free games to then engage in in-game purchases, so we watch many ads to get free bonuses. Most of the ads are harmless enough and ive seen them across multiple idle game platforms. However, as an adult who genuinely doesnt get disturbed often, let alone disturbed enough to complain/write a review, we cannot get over the disgusting family farm adventure ads where an animated pig gets stuck in a fence, butt first? As if thats not strange enough, it goes even farther and has an animated farmer playing tic tac toe with a circle exactly over the spot youd exact the pigs private parts to exist. Not sure why the ad is so explicitly suggestive and further: 1) who is this ad targeting/for? 2) it better not be directed to children, though everything else about it appears to be..? 3) how is this acceptable/not more of a discourse.
We used to be able to play this game a lot but now we cant even get past the loading screen even when we delete and redownload app it stalls the loading screen.
Our game keeps freezing any time we click to do a task. We have to keep closing the app just for it to freeze again.
We had gotten this game since we were interested in playing games with building but now Im soft locked in the first prison because when you click a mission with Wi-Fi off you dont the the reward which the glitch only happens when it gives blueprints or gems.
This game is fun and we played it a few months ago and we never had problems, but now Im started to play it again, and every time the tutorial guard pops up telling us a thing it freezes, we cant play it anymore because of this, fix it please.
The game is fun, but it keeps closing out on its own. This doesnt happen with any other game on our iPad.
Hate how we have to use blueprints to level up instead of getting to a certain amount of reformed prisoners. Theres no other way to get blueprints freely without having to pay so this game is probably gonna get deleted soon.
We love this game but once you build out your prison; game crashes.
Played until we were almost done with the first prison and it keeps saying we need a loan but theres no button for it and after everytime it comes up we have to restart the game because it wont let us click anything.
We want to like this game. It has far better features than most idle games, and we can see ourselves getting addicted to it. We have played most Codigames, too. But this game is unplayable. It crashes every twenty minutes at most, rendering it impossible to play. We have never had any issues like this with any other Codigame or iPad game in general. Desperately needs bug fixing, but the game itself has potential when we actually get a chance ro play it.
The game is fun but crashes more then our grandma crashes.
Games keeps crashing this never happened before.
Ive had this game for a few years now. They finally added new maps but youve gotta pay 10-25 dollars to unlock them. Atleast have it set up so you can grind it out and unlock the next level without having to buy the blueprints. Thats just greedy.
We do super love this game but gosh, its crashes every time we open it. Please fix.
The game was amazing Then after the last update The game always crashes a bit in to the start up.
We have been playing this game for a while. Occasionally we even buy packs. But now we have maxed out all our prisons and the only way for us to advance is to spend about $20 bucks on the game. This is ridiculous and we are getting ready to delete.
We cant play the game for more that 5 minutes before it crashes. Its a fun game but with how much we get backed out its not worth it. :(.
Literally cant go past the space prison without paying for a premium pass for the blueprints. So play for so long just to be stuck at a pay wall.
Ive been playing this on and off for years and have really enjoyed it. Recently maps have become blueprint locked and theres no way to progress without paying for Pro or Elite. Im on the second-to-last map with everything at 100%, and everything from the free blueprint tier claimed, yet we cant move on without spending irl money.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.22
- Size: 1,715.64 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, RU, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Codigames SL
Last updated: 23rd September 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Codigames SL