Games like Prison Life

Miss the colorful and cute pull of Prison Life? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar. Many of them are fun to share with friends.

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 · Competitive, Tense, Replayable
90% of 26,583 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 351$19.99
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.
Replayable, Funny
85% of 3,607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 174$7.99
CUFFBUST
Escape prison with your friends by equipping tools, evading guards, and executing your breakout plan. Destructible environments, proximity chat, a multitude of escape routes, 10 player lobbies, and a full custom map editor!
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Competitive, Tense
52% of 514 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
85% of 2,335 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
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.
Colorful, Tense, Replayable
84% of 281 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Just Another Night Shift
A 1v1 or 2v2 stealth duel: one of you robs a mansion, the other guards it. Swap sides at halftime, buy gadgets, set traps and try to outfox a friend until someone wins the set number of rounds. Silly, tense and best played against someone you enjoy beating.
Colorful, Competitive, Tense
91% of 976 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$6.99
Project Breakout
Project Breakout is a sandbox prison escape game, where you and up to three friends are put into a secured facility. Explore the area, train to improve your attributes and gather items, to craft tools that are necessary for your escape!
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable
65% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Of Guards And Thieves
A top-down multiplayer stealth contest: heavily armed guards defend a building while quick, quiet thieves try to rob it. Shoot your way in or slip through the dark, flip the lights, break the glass, and outwit real opponents across a pile of game modes.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Competitive, Tense
85% of 4,319 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
84% of 63,312 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$29.99
Hard Time
The toughest prison sim in the yard has been locked back up to serve another sentence in 2D!
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Tense, Replayable
89% of 301 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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 · Tense, Replayable, Funny
82% of 6,552 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 681$14.99
PRITTO PRISONER
You're the world's softest criminals in an island prison with mandatory nap rooms. Your escape plan? Eat bread, poop until the gates open, and pee on the robots chasing you. Break out with three friends, or play the robots tucking them back in. A wacky 4v2 prison break in quick 10-minute matches.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Cute, Competitive
94% of 77 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99

Hidden gems like Prison Life

The Break-In

Sneak into houses and vaults with up to three friends, grab everything that is not bolted down, and haul the loot away before it all goes wrong.

$19.99

BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION

Scavenge, investigate and escape with your team while one of them wears a stolen face and hunts you from within.

$2.99

Just Another Night Shift

Play thief or guard in a 1v1 or 2v2 stealth duel where you steal the goods or stop the heist.

$6.99

Back to the Dawn

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

$23.99

Hard Time III

The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of…

$9.74

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

Burglin' Gnomes

Sneak into human houses with up to five friends, pocket everything that fits and haul it home for gear and upgrades.

$9.99

Space Prison

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

$19.99

Crime Simulator

Pay off your debt by pulling off burglaries and bigger jobs, sneaking in solo or causing chaos with up to three friends.

$14.99

LOCKDOWN Protocol

Run tasks against the clock while saboteurs work among you, and argue your way out of every accusation before the round ends.

$9.99

Perfect Heist 2

Blend in with the bank staff, then crack the vault before the cops pick you out of the crowd.

$9.99

Deducto

A social deduction game where employees finish tasks, impostors finish them off, and meetings decide who gets fired.

Free

Newest games like Prison Life

Escape from Playtime

You are a Smiling Critter, small and plush, loose in an abandoned toy factory with up to seven friends.

$9.99

Burglin' Gnomes

Sneak into human houses with up to five friends, pocket everything that fits and haul it home for gear and upgrades.

$9.99

Airport Security Sucks!

One side runs security with a loud voice and a parrot, the other side smuggles contraband past it, and both jobs go hilariously wrong.

$7.99

PRITTO PRISONER

You're the world's softest criminals in an island prison with mandatory nap rooms. Your escape plan?

$9.99

LOCKDOWN Protocol

Run tasks against the clock while saboteurs work among you, and argue your way out of every accusation before the round ends.

$9.99

BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION

Scavenge, investigate and escape with your team while one of them wears a stolen face and hunts you from within.

$2.99

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

Back to the Dawn

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

$23.99

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

Crime Simulator

Pay off your debt by pulling off burglaries and bigger jobs, sneaking in solo or causing chaos with up to three friends.

$14.99

The Break-In

Sneak into houses and vaults with up to three friends, grab everything that is not bolted down, and haul the loot away before it all goes wrong.

$19.99

Among Us 3D

Run tasks through a colorful spaceship, argue your innocence in voice chat, and hope the impostor isn't standing right behind you.

$9.99