Prison Tycoon is a business simulation computer game developed by Virtual Playground and published by ValuSoft in July 2005.

[1] The premise of the game is to create a functional prison complete with walls, guard towers, and housing wings, plus dining, exercise, and medical facilities.

The objective of the game is ultimately to turn your low-security incarceration facility into a profitable maximum-security prison.

With higher levels of security the player has access to more advanced facilities and upgraded walls and guard towers.

Players are able to click on both inmates and staff to get a basic description of their levels of satisfaction, fatigue, productivity, as well as misconduct for prisoners.

The game designers created 96 different-looking inmates capable of over 100 different animations to allow for a varied prison population.

GameZone gave the game a score of 5/10, praising the idea and concept but complaining about clunky graphics, dysfunctional camera angles, and lack of instructions.

Three real-life locations are featured in the game, including Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary), Leavenworth, KS, and Steilacoom, WA (McNeil Island).

As with previous installments, the game puts the user in charge of a prison, in this case Alcatraz Island.