Games like Prison Architect
Games like Prison Architect include Oxygen Not Included, Cities: Skylines, RimWorld, Manor Lords, and Kingdoms and Castles. We matched them by the tags players give Prison Architect on Steam (Simulation, Building, Sandbox, Base Building, and Colony Sim): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Oxygen Not Included
Shared: Base Building · Colony Sim · Building

Cities: Skylines
Shared: Simulation · Building · Sandbox

RimWorld
Shared: Base Building · Colony Sim · Sandbox

Manor Lords
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Base Building

Kingdoms and Castles
Shared: Simulation · Colony Sim · City Builder

Against the Storm
Shared: Simulation · Building · Strategy

Cities: Skylines II
Shared: Simulation · Building · Sandbox

Empires of the Undergrowth
Shared: Simulation · Base Building · Strategy

Dwarf Fortress
Shared: Simulation · Base Building · Colony Sim

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Base Building

Foundation
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · City Builder

Factorio
Shared: Base Building · Sandbox · Strategy

Norland
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Base Building

Banished
Shared: Simulation · Colony Sim · Strategy

Jurassic World Evolution 2
Shared: Building · Simulation · Sandbox

Jurassic World Evolution
Shared: Building · Simulation · Sandbox

Planet Zoo
Shared: Simulation · Building · Sandbox

Frostpunk
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Building

Ostriv
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Building

Academia : School Simulator
Shared: Simulation · Base Building · Colony Sim

Planet Coaster
Shared: Simulation · Building · Sandbox

Settlement Survival
Shared: Building · Simulation · Colony Sim

Tropico 6
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · City Builder

Timberborn
Shared: Sandbox · Colony Sim · Building

