Prison Tycoon

Prison Tycoon is a series of video games produced by ValuSoft, with the goal of building and administrating a penitentiary facility in the United States. It has thus far received four installments, all of which received poor to mediocre reviews by critics. However, the general quality of the games has steadily increased with each installment - relatively speaking, anyway; the fourth and most recent game in the series still received a reviewer score of 2.5 out of 10 on IGN. Another one is available on mobile devices and smartphones, costs about £1.28 and is actually pretty good (much better than the PC versions that's for sure)

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Tropes in these games:

• The Alcatraz: This is a well-designed high security prison. There's even an island map in the fourth game.
• An Entrepreneur Is You
• Cardboard Prison: You start with a poorly designed minimum security prison.
• Command and Conquer Economy: Justified, seeing as it's a prison facility.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: Averted. Guards will rush toward any escape tunnels they find while under alert, even when off duty.
• Luxury Prison Suite: Not quite, but it is advised that you pay extra attention to the cells/beds of gang bosses.
• Real Is Brown
• Units Not to Scale: Nicely averted. The player is capable of going inside the buildings, where the individual inmates, staff and guards can walk about with everything to scale.