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Build and run a high school, planning its facilities while managing staff, student needs, discipline, and the budget.
Released 28 Jan 2021
Design School Layouts
Balance School Budgets
Schedule Teachers
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Developed by Squeaky Wheel Studio Inc · Published by Paradox Interactive
You take charge of a high school, designing its layout and building rooms and facilities such as classrooms, canteens, clinics, science labs, and gyms. You can shape the school around your own priorities, from basic provisions to a broad range of amenities.
Hire teachers with different subject specialties and degrees, assign schedules, and oversee other staff. Students have needs including hunger, hygiene, and discipline; you respond to problems with services such as counseling or detention, and can plan janitor routes to manage cleaning.
In normal mode, balance spending with the education you provide; sandbox mode gives you unlimited money for building. As the school develops, students can take part in activities such as spelling bees, while teachers' motivations and student needs add more to manage.
Players often enjoy shaping a school to their liking and overseeing its growth, with many describing the building and management loop as relaxing, absorbing, or easy to spend hours on. Some also appreciate its visual style and the satisfaction of improving student outcomes. Common criticisms are that the gameplay can become repetitive and run short on new things to do, while some players find mechanics difficult to learn or report problems with staff and student behavior.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 140 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DRM / EULA |
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| Website | Official website |
