Prison Life RPG

About Prison Life RPG

Prison Life RPG is a single player survival role playing game. It was developed by NobStudio and was released on February 26, 2015. It received positive reviews from players.

Play as any one of the 100 prisoners, survive harsh prison life and escape!

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85%Audience ScoreBased on 1,140 reviews

replayability31 positive mentions

music3 negative mentions

Highly addictive with great replayability due to a wide variety of characters, personal goals, and multiple escape options.
No in-app purchases or ads, offers a complete experience after purchase and provides a unique, creative, and humorous prison RPG gameplay.
Deep strategy and varied playstyles with engaging mechanics and a lot of freedom in how to approach the game, making it worthwhile and fun over numerous playthroughs.

Game suffers from repetitiveness after extended play, with limited content updates over the years leading to stagnation and player boredom.
Technical issues including crashes, bugs, license errors, and lack of cloud saving negatively impact user experience.
Lack of key features such as character customization, improved tutorial, meaningful use of certain mechanics (e.g., fame), and new content which many players feel is needed.

replayability
41 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
76% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game offers exceptional replayability, driven by its diverse characters with unique stats and goals, multiple playstyles, and numerous escape methods. Many players highlight its depth, complexity, and addictiveness, making it a highly engaging experience that remains fresh through varied challenges. While a few mention some repetitiveness or reduced challenge over time, the overall consensus is that replay value is a strong and defining feature.
- “Replayability is through the roof due to the amount of inmates with their own stats and personal goals, as well as the variety of playstyles and self-inserted challenges you can choose, and the game's mature themes are very subdued.”
- “Do not skip this game because of its off-putting graphics: Prison Life RPG is not only one of the most addicting mobile games I have ever played, it is also very complex and offers a ton of replayability because of its roster of characters and gangs, its immense number of different escapes and its discoverable character skills.”
- “Great single player/offline game I keep coming back to, good replay value. Although repetitive, it does make you want to try every version of escaping (or attempted lol) as well as the personal goals of each type of inmate.”
humor
33 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game is consistently praised for its humor, featuring hilarious pop culture references, witty dialogue, and amusing characters that enhance its addictive and engaging gameplay. Players find it both funny and entertaining, with comedy that ranges from clever one-liners to humorous situations, contributing significantly to the game's charm and replayability.
- “Challenging, balanced, gets you hooked with hilarious pop culture references.”
- “Thank you for such a creative, hilarious, and very addicting experience.”
- “Hilarious parodies and one liners.”
gameplay
26 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
38% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 12% negative mentions
The gameplay is generally praised for its clever mechanics, engaging core loop, and humorous, diverse content that offers good replayability. However, several users note a lack of variation, limited content updates, and missing features like character creation and real-time events, which lead to some boredom after extended play. Overall, it is enjoyable and easy to learn but could benefit from more depth and new features to enhance longevity.
- “The core gameplay loop is well thought out and works very well, with some room for improvement or new features.”
- “Deep gameplay with funny situations and great replayability.”
- “Excellent gameplay mechanics and replay value.”
- “Multiple gangs, prison guards, options, etc. for this and that... but the gameplay ends before you get to explore even a quarter of it.”
- “Even says in the game under the fame mechanic that the dev is lazy and the mechanic itself has no purpose.”
- “If you've played it once, you've played it a thousand times... no variation of gameplay, everything is very robotic-like... would not recommend.”
monetization
17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
53% positive mentions, 35% neutral mentions, 12% negative mentions
The game is widely praised for its fair monetization, featuring no ads, microtransactions, or pay-to-win elements. Players appreciate that the full experience is available upfront without in-app purchases, making it a refreshing and enjoyable option in a market often dominated by intrusive monetization.
- “Giving it 5 stars because no stupid diamonds, no pay to win, no ads... we need to support these kind of games.”
- “No ads or in-app purchases, so once you buy it you're golden, other than the fact that you might not get anything else done in your real life.”
- “No in-app purchases means you get what you paid for straight off the bat.”
story
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
30% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions
The story is praised for its fun, diverse characters, and engaging mechanics, with many enjoying the variety of missions and escape options. However, some players wish for more character customization, deeper interactions like cooperative quests, additional storylines, and better rewards for replaying completed stories. Overall, it's considered a well-crafted and enjoyable narrative experience.
- “That's one of the best games I've played so far, no bugs, great story and a lot of things to do.”
- “A good game very enjoyable; however, when you complete a prisoner's story, you don't get any kind of bonus if you play with them again, so I kinda felt like I wasted my time—basically no reward for the completion.”
- “Would be better if more interaction is added, like some quests can only be done by scorefields together.”
- “Just seems there should be more options and storylines.”
- “A good game, very enjoyable; however, when you complete a prisoner's story, you don't get any kind of bonus if you play with them again, so I kind of felt like I wasted my time. Basically no reward for the completion.”
graphics
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
30% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions
The graphics receive mixed feedback, with some praising the art style and detailed visuals, while others find them crude or unappealing. Overall, despite varied opinions on visual quality, many players focus more on the game's depth and replayability than on its graphics.
- “I liked the art style, the variety of options in choosing characters, how to develop them and even how (or if) to escape.”
- “Clever mechanics and quality graphics!”
- “Graphics, details and attributes are astonishingly amazing.”
- “Didn't like it, not even the gameplay or graphics.”
- “Graphics sucks.”
- “The visuals are a bit crude but overall it is a great game.”
music
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50% positive mentions, -25% neutral mentions, 75% negative mentions
Users appreciate the game's opening music but express frustration over the lack of an option to disable or mute the music and sound in-game, especially on the main page. Adding a music off button is a commonly requested improvement.
- “Always loved this game; a little disappointed nothing seems new, but I'd give 5 stars just to fix the music off button.”
- “Who else likes the opening music?”
- “There is no way to stop music and sound in-game.”
- “I watch Twitch and play the game and it is stupid not to be able to stop music on the main page.”
- “Always loved this game, a little disappointed nothing seems new but I'd give 5 stars just to fix the music off button.”
grinding
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
Grinding in the game is seen as repetitive and tedious, similar to a prison-like routine, which may lead to boredom despite different characters and stories. However, the game's humor and design help somewhat mitigate the monotony.
- “A good game, however it has a few flaws. You can play different characters and different stories, but each one just becomes repetitive and boring, much like prison life. The game becomes tedious.”
- “It's repetitive grinding, but it has humor and design.”
- “I've been grinding to get nicknames.”
emotional
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The emotional aspect is noted as impactful and moving, evoking a strong response from users. However, there is also a technical concern mentioned about not affecting SD card files.
- “It's been emotional”
character development
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game offers engaging character development through strategic prisoner selection and goal-setting, rewarding players who plan carefully with better unlockable characters.
- “I've been looking for a game that involves fun character development and this is it.”
- “Choose your prisoner carefully and check the long-term goal - make sure you achieve it to unlock better prisoners.”
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The app's stability has declined due to insufficient ongoing support, leading to noticeable bugs and performance issues.
- “App is getting buggy from lack of support.”