Amazing idle, challenging, fast paced.

The word challenging is a word I’ve ever used in describing an idle. Real goals real strategy real consequences for not completing said goals. This is not just leveling up with money you that will come to you over time, it’s a balancing act where each decision you make plays into the story and the story here is more than just a plot. Money is tight right now and I don’t have tons of cash to use on a game and that will change in time and the reason I mention this is for a point I have never ever spent one penny on an idle not because they aren’t worth spending cash on but because I get bored quickly with non fighting idles it’s level up come back later level up with cash that you are guaranteed to make this is not that kind of game. The skill involved with so many variables should absolutely hold my interest. This is an idle masterpiece and if you get bored quickly on idles for the same reasons I do no worries here this game begs for continued play. This game is alive, engaging and it will be a different gaming experience for each person who plays. Download and prepare yourself for the idle experience that you didn’t think was possible. I want more from these developers and I’ll be on the lookout for whatever they put out.

Red Planet

What were y’all thinkin? This level is ridiculous. Everything costs so much. It’s like the designers are acting like you get to bring money from other prisons along with you. The map is TOO BIG for the prisoners to get where they need to be in time!!! They don’t make it to work, they don’t make it to get food. The map is too big too correlate with the way you have time set up. The prison does nothing but lose money on the staff cuz EVERY upgrade requires hours of waiting to be able to duplicate your money to get things done. It’s not even fun. The game should get more challenging but not unplayable. We get no say over how our staff operates. We don’t get to assign where they work. And it takes the prisoners the entire duration of work and food time just to run to where they need to go. It’s disappointing after waiting so long for it to come out. I could say a million good things about this app but we need a way to communicate feedback on new maps and so forth. The Space Cooler and Red Planet have absolutely sucked and been no fun at all. The costs are too high and the maps are way too big to make it functional. PS the non-military maps on Thursdays are the best part of this game now that I have beat it up to Red Planet. The military based temp prisons aren’t a nearly as fun because they are all based around how much money you put in. I have put money in before, but I won’t for a temp prison, and Red Planet has so many issues it’s not even worth it.

Vladistenko Penitentiary

I’ve been playing this game for a while and it’s super fun, but recently I’ve been noticing some bugs occurring in the map mentioned above that’s kind of messing up the gameplay. For starters, several times, sometimes in a row, the chefs will make the food for the prisoners and deliver it to the cafeteria, but then just leave meaning there’s nobody to serve the food. Then I have 32 increasingly angry prisoners close to inciting a riot over something I can’t exactly fix. And another thing is that I can’t leave the game for more than 5 minutes without the prison becoming basically inoperable without me. Even writing this review I’m risking inciting a riot at the prison which has already costed me thousands of in-game dollars and many guards. Last thing is that the “loans” that the game gives you are sometimes inaccurate in money count. Sometimes I’ve watched a 60 second ad thinking I’ll be getting at least $10,000 only to find out I’ve only gotten $3,000. I know that may sound like an exaggeration but it truly is not. The first two problems I’ve never had before and the last one if I remember correctly has been present for a while. I love this game and as of now will continue to play it, but all of these reasons makes the game difficult to enjoy sometimes and if they continue to happen while I progress through the game I may just have to uninstall unfortunately.

Love the game...

Updated review: they seem to have fixed the issue mentioned below pretty quickly! I still LOVE the game. I’m sad I missed out on so much of iron fortress, however, I’m grateful to have my game back! There are still a few bugs that need to be fixed but nothing that affects the gameplay too much. I enjoy it, it’s technically not an “idle” game you can only collect one hour outside of the game unless you pay for more. Old review: Well, I LOVED this game before yesterday. Yesterday the app started crashing. I can’t even get it open up. The loading screen crashes. Otherwise I’d give this game a 4/5 stars. But the fact that one update ago I was able to play and now it’s completely broken and has yet to be addressed or fixed is ridiculous. I give it a 1 star because I cannot give it a zero star or else I would. I’ve tried updating my phone, didn’t work. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, didn’t work. I force closed all my background apps, still didn’t work. It’s definitely not on my end. I’m hoping this gets to someone because the link to report issues with the game is broken. The link goes to “error 404” page...

Prisoner Bus/Riots are bogus

Fun game my one issue is the drop off bus. Often times the drop off bus comes just after my prisoners are released, the prisoners have already left the prison and are no longer counted in the number but because they are still walking away from the prison even if already outside the gates I won’t get new prisoners off that bus it’ll just leave. It’s a bit annoying because if no one is taking up those empty prisoner slots I should get more. My second issue with the game are the riots. I can max out all of the guards equipment and facilities have max level of guards to like 12 prisoners and all my guards will die. I’ve lost 25 guards to only 10 prisoners and this guards were maxed up. Another thing if the best ways to prevent riots are to take care of prisoner needs it’s not fair if my prisoners need hygiene or comfort or something and they just don’t do anything to fix it. They just sit there letting their levels fall lower as if I don’t have the means already set up for them. It’s not fair that they constantly riot and I’ve already given them everything I possibly could. Like if you’re hungry eat!, but no they will stay in the yard playing till at least half of the eating time is used up or worse the cooking staff for no reason I can see just didn’t prepare any food.

Not good enough for the wait

Let’s start with the good. I began playing this game because it was advertised to me frequently and I wanted the ads to go away. I started playing causally and the first prison was pretty well paced and, with the help of watching ads to give you boosts in the game, I was able to get through it quickly. It was fun while it lasted. As for the bad parts of this game, I find the idea of running a prison and making money off inmates to be glorified in a mobile app somewhat wrong. The more I played, the more I didn’t like the idea. Whenever I open my game, I had instant prison riots as if the prisoners couldn’t help themselves and had to riot at every opportunity. I think there should be a cool down on riots every 24 hours because it’s not a good look. Finally, the most flawed part about the gameplay was how slow it is the further you go. The prison I’m on now has been fully upgraded for weeks and I still haven’t met my prisoner quota for a new one. If you wanted to keep me playing, I would extend the one hour afk timer. I can’t imagine checking my phone every hour of the day just to close it because my prison is fully upgraded and I can’t progress in an interactive way. It’s scummy for the game to set the timer so low and put a better timer behind a paywall. For all these reasons, I will be uninstalling.

Better than most idle games!

It’s pretty decent, feels different than your average idle game and I liked that. It was a refreshing take on what idle mobile games are, at first at least. Every time I log on, there’s a riot. Like, my inmates were in perfect condition when I closed the app, where’s the logic in that? Also, in the first prison, I have all cells unlocked, meaning I have 32 prisoners. When mealtime comes around, 32 people cannot stand in line so about 12 of them walk off upset because they “can’t get dinner” because the line is very temporarily too long. (Also have all upgrades for kitchen and max cooks, doesn’t change anything) Another thing is the rehabilitated prisoner amount you must achieve to move on to the next prison... Many have said in other reviews that their prisons are maxed out, and they’re just sitting around waiting for the rehab’d prisoners to finally catch up with their other progress so they can move on. This happens even in the first prison. It just seems like there are some minor oversights here that should’ve been ironed out in testing, but something tells me the motive to make money was greater than the motive to make a great game. EDIT: Also, when you switch prisons, any time left on your x2 from watching ads is removed. Switching back has no effect.

Best idle game I’ve ever played

If not the best idle game, Prison Empire is my favorite by far. More in depth than most where you just tap with no consequences or strategy in mind. My only complaint is that you can’t zoom out very far which isn’t why I didn’t give this game 5 stars. Events seems very pay to win, if you don’t spend gems or money during an event, you struggle to reach even close to top 100 with most having scored a lot of points within the first few hours. If events were more balanced and less pay to win, this game would easily be a five star from me. There are little visual bugs and sometimes when you load in while an action is being carried, out like cooking from the chefs, it doesn’t progress no matter how far into the hour you are and enough food for all the prisoners doesn’t get cooked. Another one is when there are a lot of prisoners in line to get food, the line doesn’t carry out into the courtyard and some prisoners don’t get fed and remain angry until they do. This happens even with a maxed kitchen and lunchroom. The game could be polished more, but it’s still a great game to play if you’re bored and like idle games and want something different in that genre!

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