After thinking about it for all of five minutes, I decided that – as of yet – there hasn’t really been a brilliant game set inside a prison. I’m n༺ot talking about the sci-fi efforts of The Suffering or the brilliant Chronicles of Riddick. I mean a gritty take on the realityof being banged up and fearing for your safeꦗty in the communal showers every morning.

Imagine the p𝓰ossibilities? So that’s whatIdid and here, for your viewing pleasure, are a load of reasonswhy a prisonenvironment for a game would be bloody brilliant…

It's all about the environment

Above: The island of Alcatraz would be perfect for a prison game setting

Other activities

Imagine the scope for other things to do in choky apart fromstartingriots or having a 'bunk up' with a twink in a horrendousQTE fashion. Get a job in the kitchens perhaps...

Above: Getting a job inthe kitchens could help to off a fellow inmate

Or further your intelligence in the prison library to show your keepers that you're a reformed perso𝄹n. Maybe these could take the form of the with you gaining better negotiation skillswhen conversing with others. You could even forge a career in the tool sheds (makingweapons?) or down in the boiler room (illegal fighting ring?), the options are plentif🐎ul. Not to mention indulging in prison's rule football or getting buff in the gym.

Choose your own path

How will you live outyour prison life? Batter the snot out of your fellow inmates in a bid to become the 'daddy' of your wing? Grab a job and further your education to try and prove to the governors that you'regoodforan early release? Or become a prison snitch as you rat out your buddies in return for perks likeTVsor early parole?The choice would be yours and would end in either infamy amongst your cell-mates, gaining bail, a daring swim to life on the lam or...

Above: *Pop* *Fizz* *Gurgle*... and roll credits

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