>>50225420
I've thought this since near the beginning of Milgram simply because of how oppressive the setting felt, but I wonder if they even could get out. Some of the prisoners even felt content to stay in the previous trials. And in the novels, while Torch was the only one who was forgiven in the end, he became the new warden in another experiment.
It seems at least partially based on the French play "No Exit", and I think that one of the phrases they've put out in the ciphers actually does quote the play's infamous "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people". That's why some people think it's a purgatory, but I think it could still be a simulation if the prisoners are just based off data rather than people experiencing it indefinitely.