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89%29089% positive reviews, Very Positive across 290 reviews·Violent · Gore
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Battle-tested by 13 million players on mobile — now rebuilt for PC without a single microtransaction. Hoosegow is a dark comedy about making it through life behind bars. You're dealt a random character, a crime, and a sentence. Your goal: survive at any cost.
Hoosegow: Prison Survival
SteamHoosegow: Prison Survival is a choice-based survival game with roguelike elements, where your goal is to survive in a brutal prison environment. Every decision has consequences, every playthrough is unique, and one mistake can cost you your life.
At the start, you receive a randomly generated inmate with a unique set of stats, a crime, and a sentence. You must balance survival, maintaining your reputation, and achieving the objectives of your chosen game mode.



Level up your stats, collect resources, choose your allies. Every decision opens new paths to victory — or... leads to death.
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