Prison Architect: Undead Update Now Available for Halloween

Written by Brandon Hofer on October 11, 2022

News: With this latest expansion, you now have to deal with the Undead as you try to run your own prison.

Paradox Interactive and Double Eleven have launched Prison Architect: Undead, the eighth expansion for the hit prison management simulator. Just in time for Halloween, players can add a horror-filled objective to their management gameplay in keeping an infectious spread at bay and your prison alive. Prison Architect: Undead is available now for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 for a suggested retail price of 2.99 USD / 2.09 GBP / 2.99 EUR. You should also be able to play it on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 via backward compatibility.

By placing a Graveyard Quick Room in their prisons, players spawn the Undead that will crawl their way out of the ground. This unrelenting horde spreads their infection to other prisoners at a fast pace by getting them sick or biting them. It will be up to you to use every tool at your disposal to eliminate the undead. If you need some backup you can call in reinforcements in the form of Bounty Hunters.

Undead is also available with Escape Mode, meaning players themselves can fight for survival to ward off the Undead and get out of prison.

Prison Architect: Undead Key Features (also available in “Escape Mode”):

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!

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.

A free update, The Kickstand, also arrived today for all players, featuring Corgis, Siberian Huskies, and three quick rooms: Security, Kennel, and Parole. Additionally, players gain the ability to lock cameras and make monitors a priority for guards, as well as an empty room that can be used to separate prisons into sectors, without using walls to divide and cut them off.

Will you be playing this new Undead update?