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Prison Life RPG – Entertainment Game Review
Prison Life RPG is a Entertainment/Roleplaying/Simulation game from Nob Studio, first launched in 26th February 2015.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 227+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Prison Life RPG Stand Out
Top 1 Paid App, Overall Games, RPG and Simulation in France, Taiwan and Hong Kong App Store!
Touch Arcade forums' Game of the Week!
Over 66,000 copies sold across all platform, with over 200,000 players!
"with that many features, and its replayability value, it's hard to put down the game once you've started playing." – modernjamming
"This game has no IAP of any kind and the replay value is huge." – idownloadblog
"Huge game with a lot of content, Solid RPG with survival like timetables" – indie-love
"Prison Life RPG is surprisingly deep." – Pocket Gamer
"There is so much going on in this game that only paying $3.99 feels like a crime. " iOS App of the Week – iPhoneFAQ
Dear prisoners, this is Warden speaking. Welcome to the Prison, where you are SENTENCED to play! Can you survive the harsh prison life? Can you escape before your execution?
NO ADS AND IAP ALLOWED
Prison Life RPG is a premium game with no ads or in-app purchases. Hurray!
PRISON BROCHURE
Prison Life is a Roguelike+Survival+Simulation+Role-Playing game that places you behind bars. To survive the punishment of the penitentiary system, you’ll need to stay healthy and fit, gain allies, eliminate enemies, bribe the guards, bet in illegal boxing matches, and more while pushing for parole or planning an escape.
PRISON CAPACITY
With more than 100 prisoners to interact with, you'll never feel bored! You can play as any one of the 100 prisoners!
PRISONER ACTIVITIES
Watch TV, call your grandma, learn skills, craft items, get bullied, wash toilet, flirt with the pretty Doctor in Sick Bay, bribe the guards or just idle around!
SOCIAL RELATION
Make friends and join gangs to increase your defense, fighting, and, of course, escape power. Be careful though, prisoners your offended will beat you up or even kill you!
PLOT YOUR ESCAPE
There are many ways to break out of prison. You just need to collect the proper tools and talent to pull off the perfect plan!
PRISON FEATURES:
◆100 prisoners to play as, each with his own Personal Goal/Mission
◆18 skills to learn and master
◆4 gangs to join and climb up the ranks
◆Recruit up to 7 inmates in your escape plan
◆80+ items to collect or craft
◆126 nicknames/achievements to earn
◆20+ different jobs
◆Different ways to escape from prison
◆You will die plenty of times
ROAD TO FREEDOM
Behave and get released? Arrange early parole with lawyer? Suicide? Break out from prison with an escape team? Become the Gang leader? Executed?
The choice is yours, prisoner.
ABOUT THE PRISON
Took more than a year to construct, the warden guarantees that this prison is deep, challenging and will lock you up for hours!
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Download this game now or I'll send you to the hole!
Lights out!
Warden
Follow the Warden on twitter: https://twitter.com/nobstudio
Discuss prison life and more reviews in Toucharcade: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=255996
GAME REVIEWS
FantaBobGames: Let's Play Prison Life RPG youtube series in French
http://youtu.be/w6XjpMOfYFw
modern jamming: Detailed review + Tips and Tricks
http://www.modernjamming.com/games/prison-life-rpg-prison-life-simulator
idownloadblog: Survive, escape, or die in prison
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/03/17/prison-life-rpg-review-survive-escape-or-die-in-prison/
Indie Love: The Role Playing Prison Game You Never Knew You Wanted
http://indie-love.com/2015/03/16/prison-life-rpg-the-role-playing-prison-game-you-never-knew-you-wanted/
iPhonefaq: iOS App of the Week: Prison Life RPG
http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/974332
MY PART TIME SPACE: Prison Life RPG iOS Game Review
http://mypartimespace.blogspot.sg/2015/02/prison-life-rpg.html
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Prison Life RPG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th June 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Urgent bug fix for start game crash caused by player becoming gang leader!
Very sorry about the bug!
Translated to Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.
New content update has to hold back as the game was cracked and translated to Chinese. Warden has to release Chinese translation version first to fight piracy!
Download & Availability
Prison Life RPG is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Prison Life RPG 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 wish the devs would come back to this one. This game is pretty fun even after multiple play throughs, but we wish there was a lot more content now that Ive done everything. Im a big fan of how the game works and everything you can do. We just thrive for more.
We were a young child at 7 years old when we were diagnosed with stage 69 osteoporosis. We couldnt do anything. We had a nickname called the pineapple and our parents tied us to a pole and ate our dog. Then, we found this app and it gave us new life and our new nickname is the vape queen. Our parents now dont eat our dog anymore, instead they smuggle Sour Patch Kids across the border. Our life took a turn for the better and now Im on top of the world.
We have known this game for years now and we remember when the developer used to bring out updates. Hes been missing for years now and there is no way to reach him. Overall with what he made so far this game is complete we wouldve loved to see more content. We hope the developer is ok and is not deceased.
Played this game years and years ago so glad we found it again!! Endlessly replayable and really enjoyable! Realistically a GOOD GAME in 2024!! Still worth the 3.99 no question!! Purchase this game you will NOT be disappointed.
Dont create something this immaculate then forget about it.
This game is amazing, the designs, features, and etc!! Our favorite feature is the gangs. But if you ever have an update, can you add more gangs, and the prisoners can become wardens? Ill love the game even more!! Much Love.
This is an absolute amazing game and they should so make another or atleast update it.
This is the pinnacle of 2D rpg at the very least on a prison stand point, very few games are as well made as this one, by far ahead of its time, we would be THRILLED to see more content or possibly a sequel app? Im sure many others would agree, anyway, great game, if youre debating and reading this, give it a try.
We been waiting for the update since FOREVER.
This game is so much fun. And you guys need to have another update. Please.
We have played this game for hours on boats, cars, planes, etc. And it is insane. Im very sad that the developer unexpectedly stopped updating the game and operating the game website and we hope that he is doing well. For 4 dollars this is the absolute best rpg you can get. You can work different jobs, join gangs and climb up the ranks by doing jobs such as bribing boxing matches which you can then gamble on. Gang rank ups earn you new perks such as protection by other members and money from other inmates eventually. If youre gonna get an rpg game, get this.
This is the only game that we always come back to after a long period of time it entertaining and its fun trying different things each escape. Miss the updates tho.
This game is very fun but hasnt been updated in years.
We have clocked over 15 hours into this game easily. We even rebought the game when we switched from Samsung to iPhone. It was truly such a great game and time killer. While the developer hasnt really made anything or been very active since its last update (we hope they are doing well), the game is still worth your time.
Still an AMAZING GAME. Honestly it is a super fun game. It makes our travel days go by fast.
This is a Sims with a prison plot. Dont let the cheesy graphics and corny dialogue fool you…this is a great game! With over a 100 characters to choose with different storylines and personal goals…this game has a high replay value. You have so many tasks to complete in order to progress the story line. Survival has never been so much fun! Best of all- one time purchase and no in app purchases. And no subscriptions. Just pay ONE TIME and have fun. We definitely recommend it! AND NO…THIS IS NOT A PAID REVIEW! We AM A REAL CUSTOMER WHO ENJOYS CREATIVITY!!!!! Note: Maybe add some more gangs.
This game is so detailed and awesome, we just hope that they come out with new characters.
Awesome game! We downloaded it and just played for 8 hours straight . What we like the most about it is that you pay once for the game and thats it. No micro transactions or anything like how it should be.
This game is amazing in our opinion but you have to get used to RPG style games to like it and thats what a lot of people dont like.
All that was needed to say. Just spend the money its well worth.
This game has so many different prisoners and hundreds of ways on playing through it.
The replay value on the game is very high and it is hilarious as well. $4 is steep price but it is a very fun game.
This app is worth every penny! We've only played 5-6 characters so far but it's been a blast each time with a completely different experience.
We hope the dev continues to add content.
We absolutely love this game!! We are really hoping it's updated soon and come out with a second one.
Parapsychology of Prison Break. Lots of replay value, lots to do. We'd recommend it for anyone that likes playing games on their smart phone.
The game was fun But we quickly figured a strategy to win the game easily after our third time that we played a new character It became so much more easier You guys should update it and give more skills to develop and just more stuff!!!!! And it doesn't save after we delete it we had to restart all over.
Fun rpg. It doesn't force you to buy stuff.
This is the only review we have ever taken the time to write a review, but man this game is awesome. It's soo well thought out and never gets old… Worth every penny and more… The game is soo deep high replay value.
Killed the warden stone cold killer.
We love this game. We played it almost constantly when we first downloaded it, and now, months later, still return to it and have fun. It needs some new characters though! New challenges.
This game makes us feel like we could actually make it through prison, awesome game.
We really like all the features included in this game and it's surprisingly addicting. We recommend this highly.
Overall, we think this is an awesome game, but, why does the theme have to be about prison life, also can we add in app purchases please? This genre is awesome, but like we said, why prison? Game developers can you read this we need more games like this and more updates! Don't give up on this beautiful game.
No in app purchase and fun rpg game play.
Give it a try a lot of story and different things to do.
Ok ok how did you make this is so funny and realistic we will love if you can make more special characters.
This game is amazing!! We would like some more special characters and we think that a create your own character option would be great!! Have a nice day.
It's so hard to find creative games in the App Store. This one stands out as truly unique. It's funny, inventive, and most importantly, deep. You can play through many times and still have not seen all that it has to offer.
We're absolutely hooked. Going to replay with a harder character. Money well spent.
For starters if you are reading this review thinking about buying a cheap, weird but fun looking game and wonder if the reviews are fake – we assure you they are not! We're 100% real, rarely give five star reviews, and this game is just as amazing as everyone says. You can play it multiple times as 100 different characters with specific and individual goals and skills, and the replay value is made stronger by the fact that every little tentacle of each possible storyline is written with depth and intelligence. For example, we played once as a prisoner and worked hard to get parole. We were recommended for parole but at the last moment the warden noticed we had the "banker" skill and decided to keep us in prison for his tax scheme. So our new goal (complete with a heartbroken, 0 happiness prisoner) was to escape and take the warden hostage. Which after a long while, we did. And that's just one possible little storyline. Any prison life/break story or fantasy you've heard of or had is in this game somewhere. Finding them is half the fun. It's soooooo good, guys. Buy it. Seriously.
So we bought this thinking it would be a game to kill an hour or 2. It's so fun and different every time, we find ourselves playing for hours at a time. Definitely suggest buying this game.
This game is so fun… We recommend getting this game immediately. It is such a time waster but is still really fun. Also while you are prisoning you can see what every character is from. There are a ton of details and other stuff we did not even notice on the first few times, like the snitch guy and mad docter. Have a nice day.
Worth the money. 100 players to choose from so it's always a different game.
We've had this game forever and we still play it all the time.
We love the game we have been playing it ever since we got it but we think there should be more characters and more ways to escape.
This is probably the only game we play anymore, there is so many things to do we wish a lot more games were like this.
It is super addicting and teaches people about prison and how to survive it.
Just made through our first 20 days. Now we got the hang of it. Rather enjoying it.
This game is awesome! You should add more characters and more prisons. We love talking and trying to survive prison. Also add some girl prisoners. Character suggestions: Sally Skills: Social, Killer, Rich Looks:A girl with a scary face and black hair. Basically a witch. Goal: Kill more then 2 people. Happy Skills:Social, Rich, Threaten , Stealth Looks: A creepy celebrity Goal:Have a nickname as a celebrity Blub Skills:Social, Rich, Killer, Fighter Looks: blue hair and funny face Goal:Make two friends and escape.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4.0
- Size: 102.21 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, ZH, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Nob Studio
Last updated: 30th June 2015 | Genre: Entertainment, Roleplaying | Developer: Nob Studio