Prison Architect: Cage Break Tycoon

Ten days, one prison, zero fortifications - that's your starting point in Prison Architect: Cage Break Tycoon. The cells can barely hold ordinary inmates, let alone the Bosses lurking among them, and every night ends the same way: a full-scale escape attempt you have to shut down.

So you spend the day getting ready. Build new cameras, strengthen the doors, add surveillance, hire security guards, and pour whatever you've got into improvements before the sun goes down. Your chief overseer can level up too - faster movement, better weapons, room to carry more prisoners at once - turning him from a liability into your best asset.

Clear one prison's ten days and you don't get to relax, you get shipped to the next one, tougher inmates and all. It's the kind of loop Business Games fans and Tycoon games regulars will recognize instantly: build, defend, upgrade, repeat. If you like running the show solo, it also fits neatly into 1 Player Games territory.

It plays free in the browser on desktop, Android and iOS, no download needed. Landscape only, but that's the only rule - everything else about how you run your prison is up to you.

Your job each day is to fortify your prison before nightfall, because every night the prisoners try to break out and you have to stop them. Spend the day building cells, strengthening doors, adding surveillance cameras and hiring guards, then upgrade your chief overseer's speed, weapons and prisoner capacity.

Survive the nightly escape attempt and you move on to the next day - stick with each prison for about ten days before transferring to a new one with fresh challenges. Controls are simple point-and-build, suited to touchscreens and desktop alike.

Don't spend everything on cameras and forget the doors - a balanced defense across guards, structure and your overseer's upgrades is what gets you through the tougher late-game days.