Somehow, 'Prison Life Simulator 2022: World FIGHT Battle GTA ULTIMATE' Is An Actual Game On Switch

From the screenshots it looks kind of alright!

MDickie should release his Prison Life game on switch. That game's hilarious

Looks like they stuck every possible search term they could in the title.

Which I feel like there might be one missing, trash.

"Wasn't this kind of thing a major factor in the video game crash of '83?"

No, the major factor was such games being pigs in a sack. Tell an early 80s gamer just how UNFORTUNATE you are to have seen actual footage of the game - on-demand and with the effort of a few casual finger movements, no less - before pulling the trigger on it. Nowadays, there are abundant ways to do your homework on a video game before you buy it. What, shouldn't have to? Indubitably, just like you don't have to play video games at all.

As for the game itself, the goofiest thing about it is thr seeming lack of any vehicular gameplay in the description and screenshots given - and logically, one wouldn't expect much of it in what sounds like a third person take on The Escapists... but, uh, the devs do know what "GTA" is short for don't they?😅😄

Do you get to play as Gary Bowser?

@nhSnork

Great Thieves Association, surely.

Between this and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Sweet Pete is now making video game bootlegs as well, tired of just making bootleg cartoons.

Nintendo seal of quality approved.

It is giving me massive Saint's Row 2 vibes, though.

I feel like I'd rather play this, than the Switch ports of GTA Trilogy.

Is this like an interactive version of Oz or Candiru?

@Hydra_Spectre I'm looking forward to Superb Marinara Bros. published by Sweet Pete Games

I'm going to take a moment to help isolate what we're looking at going off of the title alone.
Prison Life Simulator
Makes sense, a solid start to a sim game. 2022:
This part insinuates that we'll be receiving a new version yearly. Oh God.
World
This story will be happening on a global scale. The images appear to be modeling the US prison system, but perhaps we'll have the option to view incarceration through the lens of other nation's justice systems. ...right?
FIGHT Battle
I appreciate them putting 'FIGHT' in all caps to assure us that this world battle won't involve drones, tanks, or missiles, but rather some good ole fashioned mano y mano fist fighting. Sounds riveting.
GTA
Honestly they lost me here. Perhaps the player is serving time for stealing cars??
ULTIMATE
Generally this means there are other, lesser, versions available. Maybe there's DLC that they decided to package in with the main game before launch?

Thats the best I can figure with what I was given. I sure hope this doesn't cost more than $4.99

Spend "noodles"?

Sure its a ridiculous title, hoping to get search traffic from keywords, and I'm sure the game is unpolished. It doesn't look or sound great.

However, the actual idea is fairly original - I can't think of another game set in a prison where fights break out. Its not a GTA clone. I can think of lots of ways this setting could make a really good game - being a lone wolf or joining certain gangs, bribing or befriending wardens, etc. Perhaps "GTA" is in the title because your main character was imprisoned for stealing cars?

Of course, "Grand Theft Auto" and "GTA" are terms that existed long before the games. And while the font is obviously a knock off, The logo, and even game box art of early GTA games (especially the GTA3 redesign) is heavily modelled after the 1977 movie poster. Calling the game "Grand Theft Auto", the exact same name as the movie, and using that art style and layout, nearly 1 for 1 matching the movie poster, was in itself a blantant knock off. They had no links to the movie whatsoever. But again, because you can't trademark such a generically used term, it was ok. And once GTA3 became a smash hit game, the movie suddenly got a DVD rerelease and made a killing, so they weren't incentivised to complain

Perhaps more troubling is that there's already a game called Thief Simulator, and it inexplicably received an Australian PG classification by the automated IARC rating generator, which I thought was absolutely ridiculous.

To put this into context, a 2006 game called Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure was given an MA15+ rating due to strong adult themes and violence, and this was in spite of some strong backlash from local politicians about the game potentially encouraging many young people into committing vandalism, which causes damage to the sum of tens of millions of dollars annually.

Upon outcry of the MA15+ classification, the decision was reviewed at the behest of politicians/activists, and it was subsequently banned due to a clause in the RC (Refused Classification) category, whereby a game can be refused if it contains instructional detail of criminal activity. Mind you, the GTA games have passed mostly unscathed, and arguably, the likelihood of people mowing down pedestrians in a real-world setting is far less likely to occur than young people graffitiing private/public property.

Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure Bully allowed players to commit vandalism with a legally unrestricted M rating (comparable to PEGI 12 or ESRB T), but it was mostly inconsequential to the overall game, and there was no customisation element involved, which perhaps mitigated its impact (not to mention that players can be apprehended for engaging in delinquency or other criminal activity).

If the same standard were to apply to Thief Simulator as it did with the Marc Ecko game, then that should have been banned as well.

Prison Life Simulator will likely be child's play in comparison as the facility is heavily surveilled, and without any further context as to why the player is in prison, I don't think I'd be able to engage with such a game. The threat of prison, however brief it may be in proportion to the atrocities committed by the player, would surely disincentivise players from committing mass murder in games such as those in the GTA series, and even more so if the game hard saves every time a serious crime is committed.

I'm more puzzled why crappy Chinese games get any news articles at all.

@Beaucine or maybe "Gaol Time Adventure"?

It wierds me out anytime someone tries to make light of the prison system.

I'll pass.

I wonder if there is a person who bought this game and Animal Crossing hoping to compare the life sim elements.

I’m all for getting dev units in as many hands as possible but this is plainly garbage. There has to be at least some standards.

If you've even casually perused just a small fraction of the Switch eShop, you know exactly how "games" like this get on there. Simply put, Nintendo opened the floodgates to pretty much ANYTHING, with no filter for quality or appropriateness. The Wii's infamous mountain of shovelware was eclipsed long, LONG ago; the eShop is a heaping, steaming, borderline unnavigable CONTINENT of garbage.

Wouldn’t have sold any copies.

Now, thanks to articles like this, will sell loads of copies, if only to YouTubers desperate to look “meta”, or cool, or whatever the word is nowadays for desperately trying to be funny by playing something crap ironically to get 6 years olds laughing.

I take it back. Sonic Frontiers is a masterpiece.

Review it cowards!

I'm keeping my money for the sequel:
Prison Life Simulator 2022: World FIGHT Battle GTA ULTIMATE

& Knuckles

Normal Eshop stuff that.

It's not just the Eshop though, all of the major digital storefronts have plenty of trash, remember that horrible Mario knockoff released for Xbox a month or 2 ago?

When people say nintendo struggles to get great AAA third party titles, remind them of the one that flipped off god as it walked backwards into hell, "Prison Life Simulator 2022: World FIGHT Battle GTA ULTIMATE".

Going to wait for the Game of the Year release, with all DLC included.

I wonder if the developer had face and neck tattoos as well.

All I could think of when I saw the thumbnail was postmalone.

Please review this game, I want to see how bad this is without downloading garbage on my Switch (It's already had enough trash on it, I bought AAA Clock)

I'll hold out for a physical copy.

But why are games starting to adopt the same naming standards as items on Amazon?

Somehow this name makes me think of Ninja Baseball Batman.

@Orokosaki this comment is the apex of my day. I’m going to bed, no reason to stay awake for the remainder.

@ChromaticDracula I’m amazed admin never removed it!

@Zulzar Every Switch game should have an MDickie counterpart. His stuff is a treasure.

Asset flipping is these kind of games' specialty.

I work in a prison. Might have to get this to see if it's true to life. 🙄

All the "fun" of prison in a game!

@Bobb This is what I was going to say! Trust no one... but make the friends you can trust. HA