📢 Version v0.1.0 - First escape (pre-release)

PriDroid 0.1.0 (pre-release)

A quick note on expectations. Prison Architect under emulation is CPU-bound: a large busy prison wants a flagship, ideally Snapdragon. A small young prison runs fine on far more modest devices. You need your own copy of the game — the GOG (DRM-free) Linux build; the Steam build refuses to start without a running Steam client - currently not supported.

⚠️ This is the first public build — earlier than beta. It runs well on the devices we have; yours may surprise us. Bug reports from the app menu are very welcome.

UPDATE: May not load on Mali.

🆕 What already works

✅ Boots to the main menu in seconds — the game's data archives are converted to a faster format once, during instance install, and the menu no longer loads a giant showcase prison behind itself.
✅ Playable prisons — building, staff, intake, saves, day-to-day play with sound and music.
✅ Steam Workshop mods — downloaded by the launcher itself, no Steam account needed.
✅ DLC installation — install your GOG DLC alongside the game; their modes are switched on in the new-prison settings.
✅ Interface scale (UI size) — Prison Architect has a hidden UI scale setting the game itself never exposes; the launcher does (Settings → Interface scale). Pair it with the render resolution: raise both by the same factor and the interface keeps its size but gets that much sharper. Bigger, readable fonts without blur.

Technical

• main.dat / sounds.dat / collectables.dat are solid RAR archives that the game re-unpacked on every launch (~45 s under emulation); they are repacked into stored zips once at install, and the game's own zip path reads them on demand.
• Touch input reached the game twice (X server + injected SDL events); the duplicated release-event closed every dropdown on the frame it opened. One path now — menus react on the first tap.
• bionic's iconv stalls forever on a NUL byte; box64 now probes each converter and steps over NULs itself. Without this the game ate gigabytes and died before the first frame.

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⚠️ Reminder
Rimdroid is only a launcher.
To run the game, you still need the actual game files (Linux version), which you must obtain yourself - for example, by purchasing the game on GOG.