WARDEN

WARDEN is a top-down prison building and management sim. You get a fenced plot of dirt, a state budget, and a transfer bus that arrives at 7:00 sharp. What stands between those is up to you.\n\n## Build it your way\nLay floors, raise brick walls, and fit out everything from a simple toilet to full cell blocks ringed by walls and watchtowers. Stamp rooms — cells, canteen, kitchen, showers, yard, infirmary, solitary — and furnish them: bunk beds, stoves, serving tables, radiators, weight benches, televisions.\n\n## Run it like a warden\nInmates arrive on contracts and live by a daily rhythm: showers at 6:30, meals at 7, 12 and 5, lockdown at night. Hire guards, cooks, cleaners and a doctor. Keep them fed, warm, clean and calm — hunger, cold and crowding feed the tension meter, and high tension means riots, fires and escape attempts.\n\n## Survive the job\nEvery inmate pays a daily subsidy — but escapes cost fines, failed inspections cost grants, and bankruptcy hands your prison to the state. Cold snaps, breakouts and dining-hall riots are all in a day's work. How long can you hold the walls?