Torment RPGs where your character gets imprisoned & isn't immediately broken out

[rusty_shackleford]

preemptive mention of prisonscape, but the game doesn't have to be about prison

also, gothic

 

[laclongquan]

Baldur's Gate 2, definitely. You and your team literally need to break out of the underground prison to advance.

Silent Storm Sentinel, the MC start out in a small prison. Granted, it's an amateur one basement and two floor of a villa but it's a prison~

UFO Aftershock the starting out phase acting as a tutorial, is in a prison-like area. 20-30 minutes of gameplay.

ISnt Oblivion starting out in a prison? I dunno, never play it.

 

[SharkClub]

Spoiler

Go figure, the only game in the series that doesn't start out with you imprisoned is the one with meaningful sentence times.

Granted, it's not playable prison time. You just sit there looking at the screen for a bit, while it speeds through the days. But it is often enough to fail every quest in your journal at once (due to them all being on timers, bar a few), as well as rape your reputation with multiple factions (due to reputation decreasing over time). You can be imprisoned for literal hundreds of in-game days in Daggerfall if the courts find you obviously lying about being not guilty about the mass genocide you committed.

 

[madrigal]

Dark Sun, depending on your definition of immediately and broken out.

 

[lukaszek]

bethesda games, fallouts included?

some TOME races

seven

pst?

 

[Ladonna]

In Dragon Wars you can sell yourself into slavery as one of the ways to escape the first city (which is a prison itself), and your party gets shackled and sent to work in a salt mine, which you have to escape from.

 

[octavius]

There is an old CRPG where you can be sent to prison, spend a year there, and then your stats randomly decrease somewhat. But I can't remember which one.

 

[Abu Antar]

You're in prison in one section of Dragon Age: Origins.

Some jrpgs do this. One of the Yakuza games has a long prison section.

 

[ValeVelKal]

- Dungeon Rats !

If by prison you include "thrown in a dungeon where you will never EVER get out alive from :
- Ultima Underworld !
- Ultima VII Serpent Isle

Skyrim has this as part of one of the city quests.

 

[luj1]

Dark Sun

The only true answer

You can literally stay as long as you like in the first prison and fight monsters forever

 

[madrigal]

Legend of Grimrock.

 

[NecroLord]

Interesting...
Kotor 2. The Exile gets imprisoned on G0t0's yacht after an elaborate scheme on his part and an ambush. Atton and company must devise a plan to get you out of there. If you play with the Sith Lords Restored Content mod(as you should), it might take you close to an hour or two to rescue the Exile, yourself, I mean.

 

[Vilos Cohaagen]

Kenshi

 

[Roguey]

The entirety of Mars: War Logs's and Divinity: Original Sin 2's first acts take place in a prison/penal colony.

Once you start Chris Avellone's Dead Money and Old World Blues, you're in it for the long haul (while the same is true for Honest Hearts you're not imprisoned there).

 

[Haba]

Exile. And My Summer Car.

 

[Nano]

Real life.

 

[Dorateen]

Realms of Arkania: Star Trail has the party thrown into an orc prison and stripped of their gear.

 

[mondblut]

Realms of Arkania: Star Trail has the party thrown into an orc prison and stripped of their gear.

At designers fiat, with no chance to resist. LAME.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Kenshi

The best answer. Still recall a game with the 'Holy empire slave' start. Took quite a while to organize a team of slaves, knock out guards and amass weapons, and finally fight my way out, losing several guys in the process. The reward is never having the holy empire leave you alone, as soon as I tried building an outpost it was stormed by paladins with 70s in all stats. They killed half of my people and re-enslaved the rest. Felt like a fitting end to the saga.

 

[Vic]

Planescape: Torment

 

[Dorateen]

Realms of Arkania: Star Trail has the party thrown into an orc prison and stripped of their gear.

At designers fiat, with no chance to resist. LAME.

The equipment strip in Shadows over Riva was also obnoxious.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

Rusty has such a huge butthole that you have to question whether we are all trapped in it and can we ever escape?

 

[Raghar]

Wow, that looks like prison fetish.

 

[curds]

Fable.

You are imprisoned and get one a chance a year to escape by competing in a race. Each time you lose the race, another year passes and your character ages.

 

[vazha]

Planet Alcatraz, Gorky -17, Captain Blood intro tutorial in Age of Pirates.