It's good that they have delayed it after cities skylines 2 but is the sequel to Prison Architect quite ambitious because the first one didn't scream out to me as a game that remotely pushed performance.
My experience with these sorts of games is, because every 'agent' (in this case prisoners, guards etc) is simulated in real time with their own needs, tasks, pathfinding etc, there tend to be CPU constraints unless they do a lot of logic optimisation. Basically any inefficiencies become an exponentially larger problem as they're amplified as you get more agents.
The original does a decent job of this but still struggles on large prisons, and I'd imagine in a 3D sequel the pathfinding for example is going to need work as your effective navigable area is much larger. Line-of-sight for guards spotting prisoners is a thing too so obstacles need to be calculated, also in 3D space.
Good to see they've delayed to allow for optimisation, CS2 was nowhere near ready. Apparently I have 128 hours of this on Steam, add a few more from when I played on iPad and I can safely say I'm ready for a sequel.
