Games like Hard Time III

If Hard Time III scratched a funny and brutal itch for you, keep reading. These games are a good place to start.

The Escapists 2
The Escapists 2 is a pixel-art prison sandbox about faking a quiet inmate life while plotting a loud exit. You attend roll call, work jobs and follow routines, then steal forks, craft tools and chip at walls behind a poster. With 11 prisons, tricky combat and four-player breakouts, it rewards patient planners with a funny, tense payoff.
Also in Co-op · Funny, Replayable, Chaotic
90% of 26,583 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 351$19.99
Prison Simulator
A first-person prison guard sim with a dark sense of humor. Search cells for contraband, break up fights with a baton, shoot hoops on break, and decide who you are behind the walls: a model officer or the most corrupt guard in the block. The prisoner creator alone is worth it.
Funny, Chaotic, Dark
85% of 2,335 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
Crime Simulator
Fresh out of jail and already in debt to the stranger who bailed you out, you have one way to pay it back: break into houses and pull bigger jobs. Go quiet with lockpicks and sleeping gas, or loud with a baseball bat, solo or with three friends.
Also in Co-op · Funny, Replayable, Chaotic
82% of 6,552 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 681$14.99
Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out
Too long in this prison. Pull up the carpet, dig with a teaspoon, and smuggle the sand out via the toilet. Sell junk to the guard, trade toilet paper with cellmates, upgrade your shovel, and follow letters that hint where to dig. A calm, funny escape plan that rewards one more trip into the tunnel.
Funny, Replayable, Chaotic
85% of 3,607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 174$7.99
Space Prison
Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang! Explore, fight, craft, trade and learn convicts' stories to escape the facility. Space Prison is a turn-based tactical survival game with deep strategy and social RPG elements.
Funny, Replayable, Dark
84% of 281 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Old School
Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...
Also in Co-op · Funny, Replayable, Chaotic
83% of 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.74
Prison Life
A social deduction game for 3 to 11 players: prisoners loot, craft and plot their escape within four days, while guards search, watch and arrest anyone who looks suspicious. Cute, colorful and chaotic, it turns a prison break into a round of bluffing, digging and yelling at your friends.
Also in Co-op · Funny, Replayable, Tense
78% of 2,954 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Prison Architect
Build and run your own prison in this top-down management sim. Lay out cell blocks, hire guards and psychologists, set reform programs, and keep the world's most ruthless inmates from turning your careful design into a flood, fire, fight or full-blown riot. A darkly funny sim where every decision has consequences.
Replayable, Dark
84% of 63,310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$29.99
Back to the Dawn
A story-rich prison RPG: you have 21 days to gather evidence, survive Boulderton Prison and break out. Play a framed reporter or an undercover agent, befriend 47 inmates, pick a gang or play lone wolf, and find your own route to freedom in a pixel-art mystery with multiple endings.
Replayable, Dark, Tense
94% of 8,666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$23.99
Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management
Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management
Funny, Replayable
62% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Prison Boss VR
Prison Boss VR is a crafting and trading game turning your VR space into a jail cell! Craft cigarettes, alcohol and cookies for other inmates! Customize your cell as your reputation grows! Earn cash until you can’t store it anymore and become the Prison Boss!
Funny, Replayable, Chaotic
87% of 416 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Maniac
A top-down crime rampage in the spirit of the original GTA: pick one of six psychopaths, hijack tanks and bulldozers, and wreck an open city for 20 minutes until a nuclear strike ends the run. Fast, loud, bloody and genuinely funny chaos, with permanent upgrades that keep pulling you back for one more go.
Funny, Brutal, Replayable
90% of 1,764 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$4.99

Cheaper than Hard Time III

Hard Time

The toughest prison sim in the yard has been locked back up to serve another sentence in 2D!

$2.99

The Escapists

Live by the prison schedule, craft tools in secret, and pick your own route out, from tunnels to riots.

$3.59

Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out

Tunnel your way to freedom one spoonful of sand at a time, trading with cellmates and following hidden letters along the way.

$7.99

Crime Simulator: Playgrounds

A chaotic first-person crime sandbox for up to four players, built around absurd missions and creative destruction.

$1.99

Maniac

Pick a psychopath, steal whatever has wheels or treads, and cause as much mayhem as you can before the bomb drops.

$4.99

Prison Life 2

Play as a Prisoner or a Guard with up to 12 players(or alone) in an online prison game.

$4.99

TYRONE vs COPS

A fast, crude third-person shooter where you blast waves of cops solo or with three friends, and the jokes land as hard as the gunfire.

$2.99

Fat Prisoner Simulator 2

Fat Prisoner Simulator 2 is a fighting simulator with realistic physics where you are going to play the role of a prisoner during a jailhouse riot.

$0.99

Thief Simulator 2

Watch the neighbourhood, pick your moment, and walk out with everything that fits in your bag.

$19.99

Party Hard

Sneak through loud parties as a very patient man with very bad intentions, one trap at a time.

$1.99

NightClub Simulator

A VR nightclub sandbox where you dance, chat up strangers, make friends, then start a brawl with them.

$7.99

Punch Club 2: Fast Forward

Manage every hour of a fighter's day in a funny cyberpunk life sim, from garage workouts to neon-lit title bouts.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Hard Time III

I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator

Take illegal favors from the oddballs of Hobarey Town, upgrade your setup, and keep the police from noticing.

$12.99

Psycho Patrol R

A brutal, funny mecha cop sim in a decaying open world, where the cases are strange and every quest is optional.

$39.99

Maniac

Pick a psychopath, steal whatever has wheels or treads, and cause as much mayhem as you can before the bomb drops.

$4.99

Crime Shop Simulator: A Prison Boss Game

Crime Shop Simulator: A Prison Boss Game is a VR crafting game where you play as a shop owner smuggling illegal stuff.

$19.99

Welcome to the Game III

Simon owes dangerous people money, and tonight the only way out is The Game: dig through the dark net for hidden puzzle pieces, hack other PCs while…

$19.99

Back to the Dawn

A 21-day race to uncover who framed you, survive behind bars and find your own way out.

$23.99

Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out

Tunnel your way to freedom one spoonful of sand at a time, trading with cellmates and following hidden letters along the way.

$7.99

Police Chief Simulator

Hire your officers, send out patrols and grow a small-town police department at your own calm pace.

$15.99

The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire

Steal cars, run clubs and warehouses, and grow your gang until every district answers to you.

$18.99

Space Prison

Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang!

$19.99

It's Only Money

The mayor of Rockhaven threw you down a hole into the Undercity. Why? Net worth too low.

$24.99

Old School

Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun!

$9.74

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