How to activate the (hidden) 3D mode

Overview

In this guide you’ll get to know how to activate the awesome hidden 3D mode of Prison Architect. In case you’re wondering, this is completely vanilla and does not require any mods.

Introduction

Hello! In this guide you’re going to learn how to activate the recently discovered hidden 3D mode in Prison Architect. This does not require any mods at all and is a secret in the game! It currently seems really experimental, so I’d only recommend it for viewing your already built prisons, but of cause, you can do whatever you want with it.

The person who originally discovered this (TheLogical Lowdown) and I got the information from made this video on the right, you should definitely watch it!:

I’ve made this guide so this 3D mode becomes a little more known, but enough of the introduction, here’s the guide.

How to activate the 3D mode

To activate the 3D mode, follow the following steps:

Open the menu and go to Extras:

Click on the hidden button highlighted in this image:

(The button has the shape of a Pi-Symbol π)

If everything went right, you’ll see your prison in 3D:

Some notes

You can look around by holding the right mouse button and moving the mouse.
Not all objects have a model yet, so it’s normal that some things are still in 2D.
The game performs slower when in 3D mode, so it isn’t perfect yet, i guess.

Thanks for reading!

Thanks for reading! I hope this guide is what you searched for and that this helped you, but if there’s something you didn’t like about this small guide, please tell me so I can improve it, fix it and learn from it.

I hope you’ll have fun with the 3D mode and with Prison Architect in general!

Some articles about this 3D mode

Here are some articles about this “3D mode”:

“Prison Architect Has A ‘Hidden’ 3D Mode” by Rock Paper Shotgun
“Watch someone discover Prison Architect’s hidden 3D mode”[www.eurogamer.net] by Eurogamer

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