Prison Architect 2 is a 3D sequel to a beloved indie game, and it’s arriving March 26

The cult hit Jail Architect and it is truly releasing fairly quickly. The franchise follow-up launches on March 26 for Xbox Collection X/S and PlayStation 5. There’s even a trailer, posted under. Of be aware, Jail Architect 2 brings the sequence to 3D, as the unique was a strictly top-down affair. The sequel has a cartoonish look that’s barely harking back to newer Dragon Quest video games, however the gameplay is something however a JRPG.

Because the title suggests, it’s a strong prison-building simulator. We cherished the unique and wrote that it was as limitations would finally power you to mistreat prisoners within the title of “fiscal accountability.” This correlation with our real-world jail system was probably not an accident, because the end-goal of the sport was to promote your jail for a hefty revenue.

We don’t know if the sequel will hold this crucial eye on America’s for-profit jail system, nevertheless it’s greater than probably. The trailer, in spite of everything, reveals a dehumanized inmate being prevented from escape at each flip. Certain, it is a cute-looking cartoon inmate, however an inmate all the identical. Additionally, one of many recreation’s taglines is “will your prisons find yourself being monuments to rehabilitation or retribution? Most significantly, will they pay the payments?”

Jail Architect 2 is bringing a number of latest options to the desk, past a soar to 3D. The developer says the inmates are actually smarter and can develop relationships with each other based mostly on needs and wishes. Your design will “have an effect on each facet” of their lives, so plan accordingly. The primary recreation preferred to tighten the purse strings simply if you wished to construct a library and even partitions round a bathroom.

There’s additionally an upgraded profession mode, in which you’ll construct a number of prisons in the identical metropolis, and extra management choices for creating facility insurance policies. Developer Paradox Interactive, who made the primary one, has teased new gameplay situations, like escapes, gang wars and “all types of costly and damaging issues.”

Jail Architect 2 will price $40 when it releases in late March. In associated information, non-public jail “business chief” GEO Group and the Corrections Company of America is of year-to-year progress since 2009.