

Keeping an Eye on Things – Always be aware of what’s happening in your prison with the new Prisoner Log.Climbing up the Ladder – Hired guards can be promoted to Officer and Specialist Officer and each increase in rank will provide additional perks.Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks – After spending an extended period of time in your prison, inmates will change both visually and functionally, developing different needs compared to younger ones.The header image is by Reddit user heydudejustasec. If you boot up the game and the 'TT' button isn't there, you can try activating the beta by right-clicking on the Prison Architect application in Steam, going to Properties, then the Betas tab, and selecting 'performancetest' from the dropdown menu.

Users were initially reporting that in order to access the 3D mode you had to activate the game's performance beta, but that wasn't the case for me. You can read our review of that build here. That suggests that the mode has been in development since not long after the game hit version 1.0. The first hints of the mode were found as far back as four months ago, when Reddit user BlueOrange775 noticed that there was a bunch of 3D models bundled with the game. It's a neat way to view your own handiwork however after hours of building a prison, even if it doesn't look like a comfortable method for directly playing the game. Showerheads are modelled but appear on the ground, there is no toilet model, and in general it seems harder to parse than the default 2D mode. There are plenty parts of the mode that are unfinished. You'll find a video and more details below.Ī number of users seemed to stumble across the mod, but here's the first or one of the first videos of it in action from YouTube user TheLogical Lowdown: It doesn't require any mods, but it will convert your existing 2D prison into a three-dimensional representation of same, complete with prisoners, furniture, vehicles and a camera that can swoop and dive among the corridors. The option is semi-hidden but can be activated by a small 'TT' button in the bottom left of the game's "Extras" menu. Prison Architect has been adding extra dimensions to its simulation of prisons for years now, but this is a big one: it now has a 3D mode.
