Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Double Eleven today announced that Prison Architect: Undead, the management sim’s eighth expansion, is set to release next month, bringing with it some much-needed spooks just in time for Halloween.
Prison Architect: Undead adds a mixture of survival and horror to the usual proceedings, as an ever-growing horde of formerly alive inmates makes your prison its home, gradually spreading the benefits of the undead to your other inmates unless stopped.
Prison Architect: Undead Release Date
The expansion also introduces the new Graveyard Quick Room – which calms inmates for 12 hours but can also spawn undead – alongside new traps, techniques, and weapons that you can use in the fight against this new threat.
Should your guards not be enough to hold these new guests at bay, you can call upon the newly-introduced bounty hunters to help even the odds. In addition, the new undead overlay adds “a layer of darkness and suspense” to your prison as chaos engulfs it.
Here is Prison Architect: Undead’s features, as detailed by the publisher:
- Welcome the Graveyard - this brand-new Quick Room satisfies your inmates’ needs for Freedom and Comfort, making them feel calmer for 12 hours. Be mindful when you add gravestones though, as they will easily interrupt this peaceful atmosphere…
- The rise of the dead - in Undead, no one is safe. And there are many ways to become infected. One inmate can get sick, some others can be bitten by an unfriendly undead, or again a bunch of infected inmates can rise (aka spawn) directly from the Graveyard. Wardens have no power over the Infected units, they will move and act independently in the prison until stopped. Inmates and guards can try and fight them off, but if they fail, they will join the deadly bunch!
- Who you gonna call? Bounty Hunters! - when things go south (because they will) and your prison can’t hold off the outbreak, call the Bounty Hunter Emergency Service: tough, trained bounty hunters will join your fight against the undead.
- New traps, techniques, and weapons - desperate times call for desperate (and creative) measures. Use Undead chum to lure the undead, build a walled-off area and lock them inside, or steal that glorious chainsaw you’ve been eyeing for a while: everything is allowed to fight off the horde.
Accompanying the expansion is The Kickstand, a free update available to all owners of the base game. It introduces 2 new dog breeds – Corgis and Siberian Huskies – alongside three quickrooms to further expand your prison – Security, Kennel, and Parole.
You’ll also be able to lock cameras and make monitors a priority for guards. A new empty room that allows you to separate prisons into different sectors without having to wall them off is also part of the update, in an answer to fan requests.
Prison Architect: Undead’s release date is set to occur on October 11, 2022. The expansion will launch on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, for the price of $2.99/£2.09 GBP/€2.99 or your regional equivalent.
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