Prison Maximus

Prison Maximus is a survival horror game published by Nintendo and developed by Next Level Games (the same studio behind Luigi's Mansion 3). Centering a group of teenage prisoners called the Inmates of Youth who are wanting to make a daring escape out of juvie from the clutches of the warden, Baron Hoffelmeyer.
== Gameplay ==
The player takes control of one of the inmates named, Katie O'Clover, Prison Maximus's loyal prisoner and the leading lady of the group. She may seem fearless, but her sentencing crime is somewhat a mystery. To regain her lost memories of her devastating past, she has to befriend the troublesome inmates and hope they will make an escape out of Prison Maximus during the night hours. ￼
=== Time Tracking ===
The player is on a time limit on each day representing, the beginning of each day hour starts at 6 AM to 6 PM and the night hour starts at 6 PM to 6 AM. But the players need to be careful during the day hour, is by making sure the inmates don't act out and lose all their behavior points, otherwise they can get the penalty based on their behavior scores. And with the night hour that the player doesn't stay awake after 6 AM hits. When it reaches to OVERTIME, it results an instant game over with the playable character being insomniac.
=== Behavior Score ===
The Behavior Score plays a part during the day hour. The player has to keep an eye on an inmate's behavior during the day. When the behavior points are equal or greater than the losing inmate's, they will resume to the next day without any penalties. If one of the behavior points are lower than the other inmates, will be resulted to an instant penalty that would end the life of the inmate in the chamber. ￼
=== Earning Moolah ===
Moolah (also known as Cow Cash) is a great way to buy tools during the night hours to search for the secret hiding place away from the cameras keeping an eye on the inmates. Earning moolah is easier when you get your daily allowance from the Moonie's Moolah Bank or doing requests from other inmates.
== Characters ==
=== Baron Hoffelmeyer ===
* The main villain of Prison Maximus, who keeps a watchful eye on the inmates through a million of cameras. When greeting them for the first time, he seems very cheerful and friendly at first, but when he starts to malfunction, he becomes evil and maniacal to their surprise. Hoff's only purpose is to end the humanity on Earth and create his own people that will do his bidding. ￼
=== Katie O'Clover ===
* Katie is the main protagonist of Prison Maximus. As one of the Inmates of Youth, she happens to feel forgetful and confused to see the teens become imprisoned by the warden. Her special quirk is investigating whenever she solves the mysteries of why there is no right or wrong within the prison, but consequences are accepted. ￼
=== Mike Nelson ===
* Katie's best friend from childhood. When meeting each other again in juvie, he happens to ask so many questions of life and is the easiest to befriend, next to Charlie. His special quirk is good luck and whenever good or bad things are about to happen in Prison Maximus.
=== Charlie Fruman ===
* Charlie is the youngest of the Inmates of Youth. She's very shy but when you get to know her, it's easy for you to get along with. Her special quirk is telepathy with the intelligence to read other inmates' minds. ￼
=== Richie Gates ===
* Richie is the spoiled rich kid of the inmates, often collecting extra moolah every day. What a lucky guy! His special quirk is safe keeping which is giving a second chance to earn moolah faster after befriending him. ￼
=== Samantha Matthews ===
* Samantha is the kindhearted girl with an angelic voice. She seems very sweet and caring with the inmates is easy to get along with. Her special quirk is voice of reasoning that would set the sounds of no fighting being involved. ￼
=== William Ebbs ===
* William is the overweight boy of the inmates with an imaginative mind of his own. Seeming to be praise by the goddess shining down on him, he became a well likable character everyone can relate to. His special quirk is freedom speech with the fanfare praising the player with compassion. ￼
=== Clara Escargot ===
* The elegant lady with a soothing sound. With her graceful, majestic ways, she can be most likely to befriend if you can trust her enough. Her special quirk is lie detecting as if she can alert the lies that the inmates would tell the player that she would snap at them. ￼
=== Conner Mann ===
* The laidback dude who wants to have peace and relaxation for the other inmates. He seems very exotic within meditating and soothing music calming his nerves. His special quirk is deep breathing with calming down the inmates faster whenever they feel emotions. ￼
=== Tabitha Brooke ===
* Tabitha is studious and gloomy nerd who happens to feel lonesome and depressed most of the time. It may be best to leave her alone until she can accept with befriending you. Her special quirk is psychosis as she feels other inmates' feelings and problems, she studies about. ￼
=== Elvis Ruth ===
* The rockstar of the inmates who loves the music surrounding him. He and Harley act like the bullies of the group but more so Elvis seems to be chilled most of the time. His special quirk is breaking tempo that he would yell at the inmates to get a move faster and slow down time. ￼
=== Sally Olger ===
* The muscular woman who happens to be a protective heroine amongst all inmates. She acts like a big sister to most of her friendly girls who adore her personality. Her special quirk is peacekeeping is being the defense to stop the behavior points from decreasing. ￼
=== Teddy Monroe ===
* The smallest inmate, who is called as he gives out advice to make a daring escape out of juvie without problems. His special quirk is attention seeker who would distract the cameras that would cause them to flicker and shut off quickly. ￼
=== Amy Duncan ===
* The energetic athlete who always has a head start. Often getting distracted at times but can somehow be difficult to befriend due to her being off topic about things. Her special quirk is lifesaving by having more energy to stay awake before OVERTIME. ￼
=== Harley Owens ===
* Harley is the backstabbing bully of the inmates who is very rude to the player and can be difficult to befriend with if you know what you're doing. His special quirk is negotiating to believe that there is strength to escape faster with the right tools you have. ￼
=== Jessica Diaz ===
* Jessica is the valley girl who can't seem to catch a break. She is very difficult to befriend because she can be very salty and snappy with the player. Her special quirk is camouflaging is to hide easier from the security cameramen keeping eye out during the night hour. ￼
== Trivia ==
* This is the first Nintendo game to have four endings: the best ending, the good ending, the bad ending, and the worst ending. ￼
* The beta concept of the Prison Maximus logo is almost similar to the Adult Swim show, Superjail's logo before they changed the design and color. ￼
* The insomniac game over screen is a reference to the unused game over screen from Luigi's Mansion for Nintendo GameCube. ￼
Category:Original Games
Category:Survival Horror Games
Category:Nintendo Switch Games