Meet your cellmate
Start the story and listen to the announcement explaining the examinations.
A psychological horror visual novel
Prisoners
Two students wake in a locked room. Every three days, an examination decides who graduates and who is executed. Decide how you’ll spend the time between tests, and whether you can trust the stranger beside you.
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Content note: Prisoners is intended for mature audiences. It includes claustrophobia, psychological distress, threats of violence, implied character death, and flashing lights.
Three days between exams
How to play
Read the conversations closely and choose what you do with your time in the cell.
Explore and talk
Use your mouse or touchscreen to advance dialogue, select choices, and explore the room.
Choose your outcome
Decide whether to pass or fail each examination. Your choices shape the relationship and which of the seven endings you reach.
Life inside the cell
Scenes from Prisoners
Four screenshots from the playable game, from the cell to the first examination.
Wake up in a room with a bed, a desk, and a locked door.
Your fellow student may become an ally, rival, or something closer.
Every three days, the results decide who will leave the room alive.
Small choices change how your cellmate responds.
Screenshots from the Prisoners reference page. Game and artwork belong to their creators.