Over seven years ago, we posted about the Kickstarter campaign for Prisonscape, a gritty and uncompromising JRPG-esque prison RPG made by a couple of Finnish guys. The game would soon make its home in our Hosted RPGs forum and Crooked Bee even interviewed its designer, Pekka Kallioniemi. The Kickstarter failed but development on Prisonscape continued, albeit so slowly that you'd be excused for thinking it was abandoned. In fact, no fewer than fifteen closed alpha builds have been released since 2015, with development rapidly accelerating since last year. Earlier this year Pekka began releasing gameplay footage on his personal YouTube channel and today the game's Steam page was launched, including a teaser trailer (originally released back in May).


Prisonscape will now be entering beta and is scheduled for release in March 2022. If you'd like to participate in the beta, contact PekkaK on our forums.