- Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10 (personal opinion) (Platinum Difficulty Rating)
- Offline trophies: 30 (5, 20, 4, 1)
- Online trophies: 1 (1)
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 36-50 Hours (Estimated Time to Platinum)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1 story playthrough + some sandbox games.
- Number of missable trophies: None
- Glitched trophies: Yes, 1 - Prison Hotel
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, custom settings won't earn you trophies in prison architect or warden games, except Failure To Communicate (see walkthrough steps 2 & 3)
- Do trophies stack?: No
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats available.
Prison architect is a simulation game where you are the architect of a prison. You decide what your prison looks like, what areas it consists off with options to built a canteen, infirmary, a guard room, solitary confinement cells or an execution chamber. You have many options to tune it to your liking.
With some research you gain full control over your prison, deciding on regime, food, punishment and logistics. You get to decide on how to deal with informants, rampant contraband, gang warfare, full scale riots and more!
There are 3 different playable modes:
1. Story mode (a tutorial & campaign mode)
2. Prison warder, where you play in a pre-build prison which all have their own challenges
3. Prison architect mode, where there is nothing to start will and all up to you to make it happen!
You'll have to play all three modes for the platinum trophy, DLC is not required but does speed up the process. The trophies effected by the DLC have tips on the bottom to show how the DLC can help you
Enjoy the game, enjoy the guide and as always, all feedback is welcome!
Step 1: The story
First off, play the story as it's like a nice packaged tutorial and will only take about 5-10 hours but it goes over most options in the game (which are many) and each story becomes a bit bigger until story 5 where you start your prison from scratch. Make sure to do all optional requests as well for the trophies.
Trophies gained in this step:
2,000 volts
Cosa Nostra
Crowd Control
Reformation
Freedom
Throw The Book At Them
Step 2: Prison architect
The idea of this step is simple start a prison, make it big do all of the prison architect trophies in it. In the trophy details you will find how and when to do this if it's in order but most can be done on the way to 500+ prisoners. It's important to know before you actually start that you should play on one of the standard settings (county, federal or super max) is you change any setting out of the standard it will change to custom, the custom difficulty will not get you trophies except for Failure To Communicate .
Trophies gained in this step:
Spare The Rod
Don't Put Me In The Dark
Stone Walls
Iron Bars
Confined
D.B. Cooper
Samuel Norton
Wait and Hope
Get Busy Living
Prison Economics
The Justice System
Rehabilitation and Reformation
Prison Hotel
Minimum Security Prison
Working Prison
Prison Industrial Complex
I Read A Book Once... Green It Was
Failure To Communicate (gang related, custom difficulty)
Step 3: Prison warden
There are 10 pre-made prisons in prison warden mode. The prison warden mode is extremely easy on "County" difficulty so put it on, run it fast and move away. Come back an hour later, check if you are at day 11 and you're good. Playing 10 days full speed is about 1 hour in real life so this step is another 10 hours.
Trophies gained in this step:
Visitation
Inspectorate Of Prisons
Oh My God, They Found Tom
Step 4: Download a map/clean up
You need to download a map (no need to actually play the map) and if you didn't play at 11:11 AM or PM yet, then use this step to get it.
Trophies gained in this step:
It's Not What You Know
HM Prison Services
Double Eleven
The Chief
[PST Would Like To Thank NemoG for this Roadmap]