Planned Release Date: Nov 27, 2026

About This Game

The winter never ends here. You run a labour camp cut out of the taiga: build it, staff it, feed it and keep it warm. Push the prisoners too far and they push back.


Prisoners smuggle shivs, steal tools and form gangs. Fights draw crowds, and crowds turn into riots. Your guards carry batons, rifles and submachine guns. Search, chain, beat or execute, then live with what it does to the camp.


The cold is the first enemy. Stoves need wood, blizzards close the road and bring the power line down, and searchlights go dark when they do. A stove left burning too hot can take a whole cell block with it.


In Escape mode you are one of the prisoners. Steal a weapon, recruit a gang and get through the wire and into the trees before the towers spot you. In the warden's chair you can take control of any guard and do the job yourself.


Drag out a cell block, mess hall or workshop at any size and the layout fills itself in. Workers fell the forest, haul the bricks and raise it wall by wall. Run power and water, hire the staff and plan every hour of the prisoners' day.


Lock the cells at night, man the towers and sweep the yard with searchlights. Armed guards shoot anyone they catch going over the wire.


Online multiplayer for up to 8 players in one camp. Wardens run it together while escapists play the prisoners trying to get out. Switch sides whenever you like.

• Low-poly 3D in a crisp pixel-art style, with a day and night cycle and snow that settles and drifts
  
• Fifteen building types that lay themselves out, from solitary blocks to the incinerator
  
• Six prisoner classes, from minimum security to death row
  
• Staff with their own jobs: guards, armed guards, cooks, workers, doctors, janitors, clerks and the warden
  
• A research tree of 16 projects
  
• Needs, tension, contraband, disease and gangs that feed into each other
  
• Weather, power cuts and fires, plus a fire brigade and an ambulance you can call in
  
• A guided tutorial, Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud saves

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game depicts violence in a Soviet prison camp: fights, riots, beatings, shootings and executions, with blood, dismemberment and decaying bodies, all in a low-resolution pixel-art style.