Prison City
Prison City is a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle Techno-Terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses.
- Price:$9.99
- Release Date:8/28/2023
- Franchise:Retroware
- Developers:
- Publisher:Retroware
- Last Updated:3/21/2025
- Steam App Id:2179860
Prison City
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Steam Deck (Verified)
Steam Charts, Stats, and Live Player Count
At the moment, Prison City has 1 concurrent player online and in-game. This is 94% lower than its previous all-time peak of 16 players achieved on 9/3/2023.
Review History Chart
Track historical review trends and overall ratings for Prison City. It has received a total of 143 reviews on the Steam store and achieved a Player Score of 79 (Very Positive).
Community Hub Members & Followers Chart
Explore the cumulative breakdown of Steam community hub members for Prison City and its growth over time. It currently has 1,683 followers on its community page.
Prison City Price
Prison City costs $9.99 in the Steam store as of 3/21/2025. It can be purchased as a standlone game or through a bundle like Prison City + Soundtrack, Retroware Modern Retro Bundle, or Programancer Complete Collection which offer a discount off the game's base price.
Explore the price history chart below to track historical price changes and other pricing stats for Prison City.
About Prison City
Prison City is an Indie, Action, and Adventure game developed by Programancer, and Retroware. On 8/28/2023, it was released on the Steam Store by Retroware.
Players have rated Prison City as "Very Positive" out of 143 total reviews on the Steam Store. These are split between 125 positive reviews and 18 negative reviews — an overall 87% positive review rating.
It can be played and ran on Windows systems. It is verified by Valve as playable on the Steam Deck and will run well.
It also supports 10 languanges in-game including English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish (Spain). Each language comes with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
According to Steam’s category system, Prison City supports the following features:
- Family Sharing
- Full controller support
- Single-player
From the Steam community, Prison City has been tagged with the following user tags:
- Capitalism
- Side Scroller
- Platformer
- Story Rich
- 1990's
- Controller
- Pixel Graphics
- Shooter
- Linear
- Retro
- Soundtrack
- Old School
- 1980s
- 2D Platformer
- Arcade
- Sci-fi
- Post-apocalyptic
- Colorful
- Cinematic
- Dystopian
- Adventure
- Action
- Boss Rush
- Singleplayer
- 2D
Media & Sceenshots
Watch the featured video for Prison City and see the latest screenshots from the Steam Store.
DLC & Related Apps
Prison City is referenced by 1 other related app in the Steam Store.
| Image | Name | Type | Release Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Prison City Original Soundtrack | Music | 8/28/2023 | View |
Related Bundles
Prison City is included in 3 bundles in the Steam Store.
| Image | Name | Apps | Packages | Price | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Prison City + Soundtrack | 2 | 2 | $17.98 | View |
 | Retroware Modern Retro Bundle | 15 | 15 | $58.44 | View |
 | Programancer Complete Collection | 3 | 3 | $22.47 | View |
Related Packages
Prison City is referenced by 1 package in the Steam Store.
| Name | Price | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Prison City | $16.99 | View |
Supported Languages
Prison City is available in 10 different languages with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
| Name | Interface | Audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | No | No |
| French | Yes | No | No |
| Italian | Yes | No | No |
| German | Yes | No | No |
| Spanish (Spain) | Yes | No | No |
| Japanese | Yes | No | No |
| Korean | Yes | No | No |
| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | No | No |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Yes | No | No |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Yes | No | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Soures & References
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Prison City data has been sourced from:
- Valve Corporation. (2025, March 21). Prison City on Steam. Steam Store. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2179860
- Valve Corporation. (2025, March 21). Prison City. Steam Community Hub. https://steamcommunity.com/app/2179860
- Programancer. (2023, August 3). Prison City. Prison City. https://prisoncitygame.com