Prison Boss VR news & patch notes

Hey Bosses!

The studio has been keeping a secret, and we're finally ready to share it with you all...

We are launching a brand-new VR game called Compass that is coming out this Spring!

We know it’s a bit of a different vibe from crafting contraband while the cops are watching, but it’s packed with the exact same charm, polish, and love that our team put into Prison Boss.

If you want to support the studio and see what else we’ve been up to, we’d be stoked if you took a look!

Thank you all for being the absolute best community (and join us on Discord if you haven't already).

Wishlist the game here if you want the latest news:

Hello, it's the devs of that old prison game. Long time no crime!

We have a small update for you all and mostly for the achievement hunters out there. We've updated the UI and tutorials to make sure newer headsets and controllers show up correctly and we've fixed the issues with certain achievements. Here are the full patch notes:

📜1.9.2 Update | Patch Notes

• It was possible to miss the final trophy. If you should have it but don’t, launching the game will likely grant it once you reach the main menu. Otherwise, start a new game and complete two nights to unlock it.

• For headsets other than Vive and Windows Mixed Reality, controller buttons have been updated to a modern layout. Their tutorials have been adjusted accordingly. Controller tutorials are shown the first time the game is installed, or when the comfort mode is changed in the options upon returning to the main menu.

• Additional controllers have been added to the tutorials.

• Several crashes have been fixed.

• SteamVR is no longer required to play.

• Advertisements for PB2 and the Discord have been added to the main menu.

Don't forget that we have a Discord server for the Prison Boss games! Check out our Socials and have a chat with other Eggs!

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In case you still haven't played the co-op sequel! It's currently on sale!

If you prefer a one button to buy everything solution, try the Complete Edition!

🐔 From Cell to City: What’s New in Prison Boss Prohibition

Hey Bosses!

If you loved Prison Boss VR, it’s time to check back in, the sequel has come a long way since launch, and we’re finally ready to show you what’s been cooking in the underground economy of New Yolk City 🥚💼

🪲Tons of Bugs? Smashed.

We’ve been cooking since launch to smooth every rough edge. Crafting, co-op syncing, cash registers, furniture placement... you name it, we fixed it. Prison Boss Prohibition now runs better than ever, with a much smoother online experience and improved performance across all platforms.

🧵Our First DLC: Stitchin’ Rich

Our first DLC adds a brand-new level, The Public Place, a new faction, and new recipes (yes, you can finally make sweaters, teddy bears, and balls).

It’s all about getting rich or dying stitchin'.

🎃The Halloween Seasonal Update

Spooky season is live! Enjoy limited-time Halloween cosmetics, themed items, and a spooky atmosphere in Prison Boss Prohibition for a few more days!

Perfect for those who like their black-market deals with a side of fright.

⏰Custom Game Lengths

Don’t have all night to craft? No problem. You can now customize session length, letting you choose the pace (9, 12, 30 days) of your smuggling empire, whether it’s a quick run or a full-blown operation.

As seen in the image, we also have Leaderboards now! Compete against other players and try to reach the top of the weekly, monthly, and all-time leaderboards!

THE GAME IS ON!

🤝Co-op Improvements

• Cash registers are now synced between players! You gotta make sure you discuss before pulling that lever!

• The wall between co-op players has been removed, so you can finally mess with your partner's stuff... actually what's his is now also yours!

🔥Complete Edition Bundle

If you don’t have Prohibition yet, this is the perfect time to jump in!

The Complete Edition Bundle gets you the base game + DLC at a discount. That's everything you need to build your contraband empire and rule the streets of New Yolk City. 🤝

🐓 TL;DR

✅ Countless bug fixes & performance boosts. ✅ DLC “Stitchin’ Rich” adds a new level, faction, and crafts. ✅ Leaderboards. ✅ Halloween event live now. ✅ Custom game length options ✅ Co-op overhaul: synced registers + 1 shared space. ✅ Discounted Complete Edition Bundle.

Join the coop today and meet with other bosses, follow the announcements, events, development, and more!

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If you enjoyed the first Prison Boss, now’s the perfect time to join the new generation of Bosses in Prohibition!

🗽 We hope you join us in New Yolk City!

The Trebuchet Team

🐔The wait is over, join the coop today!

Cock-a-doodle-doo! The moment you've all been waiting for has finally arrived, the co-op sequel to Prison Boss VR is out NOW!

Get ready to build your business from scratch in New York City, craft totally legal items, and earn a reputation among the different factions. Oh, one more thing - try not to get caught by the police, will ya?

Whether you've been incarcerated since the very start or you've just recently been put behind bars, we'd like to thank you for being part of the ride. Releasing the sequel to our very first game is an awesome moment for us at Trebuchet.

We are very egg-cited to share this moment with you all, and this is just the beginning for us! We have many exciting updates planned for the future. Thank you for your support! ❤️

If you haven't joined our Discord yet, make sure to do so RIGHT NAOW! Send us your clips, send us your feedback, send us your bugs, send us your first born. We're here for it!

Thank you and we hope that you enjoy your time in the New Yolk City!

Don't forget to check out our Socials and have a chat with other Eggs!

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🔴Prison Boss Prohibition will be releasing on July 10th!🔴

🐔Join the Alpha This Weekend!

👤 New Chief of Staff Appointed

🕒 Game Launch Delayed to Summer 2025

🗺️ Alpha Roadmap Reveal

• Every 2 weeks, a new level will unlock and be available to play all weekend long.
• Levels will rotate, giving everyone a chance to explore different environments and crafting themes.
• It's currently only available on Quest, but we're doing our best to have a Steam version too before the end of the Alpha weekends.

Join our discord to play Prison Boss Prohibition's FREE Alpha

Join our discord to play Prison Boss Prohibition's Alpha

• 11 Different Craftable Items
• 4 Prisons With Over 80 Jobs To Complete
• 1 Arcade Mode to Unlock
• 1 Experience making the most of Virtual Reality
• 1 Great Jazzy Soundtrack!

• Use of SteamVR for all headsets: this means you can now play Prison Boss VR on Oculus Quest using Virtual Desktop! But also any other streaming or chat app that interacts with the SteamVR compositor will now work correctly! Furthermore, this means that if you don't like the way the buttons are setup, you will now be able to reconfigure the controller buttons using the SteamVR interface!
• You can now play Prison Boss VR while Steam is in offline mode: you will still need to play Prison Boss VR with Steam in online mode at least once per 30 days, but the rest of the time, you can play with Steam in offline mode!
• You can't move furniture at night anymore: a long time annoyance finally removed from the game!
• Better support for aggressive antivirus: we've had issues with some antivirus that impose very strict security rules, so we changed the location of saved games from the '.../Documents/My Games' folder to the '.../AppData/Roaming/ folder to avoid the extra security imposed on the documents folder. If you previously had issues with Prison Boss VR while your antivirus was running, and so had to mess with antivirus rules or turn it off, now you'll only have to play the game once like before and your save files will be transfered to that new folder. Afterwards you'll be able to play without avoir any security measures!
• We now use Unity Analytics to gather information: we used to use a different provider but moved to Unity now, this means that if you want to change if you share or not info with us, here is what you need to do: you go in the in-game options menu and click the analytics button, you'll be directed towards a web page that allows you to choose if you share or not data with us to improve support for the game.

What’s in the Boss Mode?!

New comfort options, with the ability to play without room-scale

New medals system for Story mode

Lots of fixes and small improvements

New achievements

Full patch notes

• Features:
  • Brand new Boss mode
    • Boss mode allows you to play the prison of your choice with the starter item of your choice, and later on unlock objects you want to craft
    • Boss mode becomes available after completing prison 2
  • Scores and medals based on gameplay performance for each prison completed
  • Full UI rework:
    • Complete rework of the merchant for better user experience
    • All UI can be used from distance via a hand controlled pointer
    • More useful data on the progression tab (required XP to unlock new supplies, days passed, times caught and Items Sold value)
    • You can now get back the items you sold to the merchant if you cancel the trade instead of getting money
  • New comfort options (available in Options menu):
    • Roomscale: same as before
    • Standing: self rotation button
    • Sitting: distance interactions and self rotation button
  • New languages supported (Russian, Spanish and soon Traditional Chinese)
  • 14 new achievements spread across the entire game
  • Can stream a filmed version of yourself playing Prison Boss VR with LIV (for Vive on Steam)
• Improvements :
  • Moderate performance increase
  • Loading and scene transition significantly faster
  • All prisons and a few objects have been prettied up a little bit
• Bug fixes:
  • Doesn’t play long intro when playing tutorials through the main menu anymore
  • Bobby can be sold only once per day
  • Tutorials screen now allows leaving back to Main Menu and will return thrown objects
  • Made very hard achievements more realistically obtainable
  • Improved issues caused by defective prisoner pathing
  • Fixed issues that could make announcers and merchants to not come

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Now about Prison Boss!

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Now about Prison Boss!

• Added movie posters in the Furniture Menu:
• Posters are selected at random when bought.
• Posters are rotated by moving the placement hand.
• More guidance was added to the game.
• A flying Bobby was added to guide players and help them noticing important game elements during their first days in prison 1.
• Added contextual arrows to help understand the first text tutorials.

• On the first day, the dealer will not come once you read the tutorial texts from the announcer. The player can directly use the clock to skip to the night when ready to start.
• The video tutorials in the projector room now starts only when the player looks at the screen for the first time.
• Made the first hint texts of the game clearer by using better wording and more detailed animations.
• Made some texts appear more clearly by adding a background to them.
• Fixed a bug reported by a player regarding the dealer. He wasn’t hiding his hand when leaving and then wasn’t interacting with the player the next day.
• Fixed a bug reported by a player regarding the confiscated objects. Sometimes, the objects that were confiscated and then given back as a “first offence” were not interacting at all when used in crafting.
• Fixed some bugs that occurred on occasion and created instability in the game.

• Added movie posters in the Furniture Menu:
• Posters are selected at random when bought.
• Posters are rotated by moving the placement hand.
• More guidance was added to the game.
• A flying Bobby was added to guide players and help them noticing important game elements during their first days in prison 1.
• Added contextual arrows to help understand the first text tutorials.

• On the first day, the dealer will not come once you read the tutorial texts from the announcer. The player can directly use the clock to skip to the night when ready to start.
• The video tutorials in the projector room now starts only when the player looks at the screen for the first time.
• Made the first hint texts of the game clearer by using better wording and more detailed animations.
• Made some texts appear more clearly by adding a background to them.
• Fixed a bug reported by a player regarding the dealer. He wasn’t hiding his hand when leaving and then wasn’t interacting with the player the next day.
• Fixed a bug reported by a player regarding the confiscated objects. Sometimes, the objects that were confiscated and then given back as a “first offence” were not interacting at all when used in crafting.
• Fixed some bugs that occurred on occasion and created instability in the game.

• New tutorial system
• Tutorial now happen when unlocking new crafts.
• Tutorial can be replayed from a new dedicated Tutorial Room.
• Prisons rebalancing
• Prison 1 balanced, and shrinked to 3 tiers. Start a new game to play with new balancing.
• New morning search feature
• Guard now search cell every morning.
• New furniture
• 6 new pieces of furniture added
• Progressive Arcade Mode
• Arcade Mode now unlocks after finishing the first jail.
• Materials offered according to crafts unlocked in story mode.

• Full Oculus Touch support
• Oculus room-scale with 3 sensors

• Clock moved to the front of the cell
• Save files and progression adapted to new prison 1 balancing
• Dealer comes faster at the start of the day
• Various sound effects improvements
• Added credits when game ends.
• Improved Tap and Bottle colliders
• Enhanced text display in announcers
• Some guards now whistle or cough
• Save file informations are now more detailed in the main menu environment
• Menu items like the save files and stamp now come back if launched away.

• New tutorial system
• Tutorial now happen when unlocking new crafts.
• Tutorial can be replayed from a new dedicated Tutorial Room.
• Prisons rebalancing
• Prison 1 balanced, and shrinked to 3 tiers. Start a new game to play with new balancing.
• New morning search feature
• Guard now search cell every morning.
• New furniture
• 6 new pieces of furniture added
• Progressive Arcade Mode
• Arcade Mode now unlocks after finishing the first jail.
• Materials offered according to crafts unlocked in story mode.

• Full Oculus Touch support
• Oculus room-scale with 3 sensors

• Clock moved to the front of the cell
• Save files and progression adapted to new prison 1 balancing
• Dealer comes faster at the start of the day
• Various sound effects improvements
• Added credits when game ends.
• Improved Tap and Bottle colliders
• Enhanced text display in announcers
• Some guards now whistle or cough
• Save file informations are now more detailed in the main menu environment
• Menu items like the save files and stamp now come back if launched away.

• Fixed a bug which stopped the game’s progression when there is an error in the creation of a save file.
• Improved the display of some of the in-game texts to make it more readable and prevent UI display glitches.