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Academia : School Simulator

$19.99
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Paradox Interactive
Platforms:
Windows Mac
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Build a high school with fantastic facilities like science labs, basketball courts, and art rooms, or do the bare minimum and live off government subsidies! Will you offer your delinquent students counseling, or simply send them to detention to let them waste their lives away? Will you hire the best teachers or cheap out and build giant classrooms with a 1:100 teacher to student ratio? Will you build enough toilets, or snicker as your students are forced to relieve themselves in the bushes? The choice is yours!

Academia : School Simulator is a cheerful yet challenging management game from the artist of Prison Architect and the studio that brought you Political Animals.


Student motivation is driven by various needs, including hygiene, hunger, and discipline, and they'll become even more complex as time goes on, eventually competing in school competitions like spelling bees and even falling in love.



Teachers are unique, with different subject specialties and degrees. Eventually they will also have their own motivations that need to be satisfied so they can keep teaching at the highest level.



Build Canteens, Clinics, Computer Labs, Common Areas and much more as you create your dream Educational Complex.



Do you think the janitors aren't doing a good job? Plot out their routes yourself in order to ensure maximum efficiency.



From potted plants to statues and fountains, we have everything to make your school the envy of all! And we'll keep adding decorative objects so that you can have a completely unique school.



Students that look like zombies and eat brains? why not? Want to run a school where the students are literally prisoners? Whatever floats your boat! Image mods are available now, and language and other mods will follow in the future.



Customize your school seal and motto to make a school that is uniquely yours!



Normal mode requires you to balance your budget and provide the best education that you can with your money, while sandbox lets you go utopian with unlimited money!

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User Reviews

Mostly Positive
10 user reviews
70%
Positive
2 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Game is shallow and I easily lose interest. Would be worth at half the current price.

4 helpful
7 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Gets very repetitive I can't lie. There needs to be a little more. You lose points for expelling students. Overall its fun to play for about 5 or 6 hours.

2 helpful
5 hrs at review
Recommended

this is an amazing quality game i enjoy as it has the nice stle of prison archetect but with the rare sub-genre of schoolwith in the sandbox genre

36 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Think I picked this game up in 2020? Hopefully not for the full price especially after seeing the game hasn't had a change since 2022, although that sounds about right for anything that plays paddy cake with Paradox. Note to anyone running linux, this game will probably crash for you as well just using the normal steam client with no help. I wouldn't recommend spending 5 dollars on this, especially in 2025.

20 hrs at review
Recommended

good

23 hrs at review
Recommended

So, the thing to keep in mind about this game is it is always going to be in the shadow of Prison Architect. Its mechanics are extremely similar, such as with the grant system, and while that's an amusing, if bleak, commentary on the education system, it raises an important question: What does this offer over Prison Architect? And my answer to that is you don't have to deal with anything relating to Paradox, such as the launcher, and the setting is far less bleak than Prison Architect. However, unlike Prison Architect, your income is far more fixed, which means from what I can tell, you can end up in a situation where you have to wait around a bit to do certain kinds of upgrades. Hence, I would say this game is definitely worth getting, but maybe not at full price. I do wish it had gotten expansions, if they had to be DLC, for say, stuff like boarding schools, but judging by how most of Prison Architect's DLC worked out, maybe it's for the best this game never went for that. This i...

System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows 7,8,8.1,10 64-bit
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: onboard
  • Storage: 400 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS *: Windows 7,8,8.1,10 64-bit
  • Processor: 2.8 Ghz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: onboard
  • Storage: 400 MB available space

FAQ

How much does Academia : School Simulator cost?

Academia : School Simulator costs $19.99.

What are the system requirements for Academia : School Simulator?

Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Windows 7,8,8.1,10 64-bit Processor: 2.0 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: onboard Storage: 400 MB available space Recommended: Recommended: OS *: Windows 7,8,8.1,10 64-bit Processor: 2.8 Ghz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: onboard Storage: 400 MB available space

What platforms is Academia : School Simulator available on?

Academia : School Simulator is available on Windows PC, macOS.

Is Academia : School Simulator worth buying?

Academia : School Simulator has 70% positive reviews from 10 players.

When was Academia : School Simulator released?

Academia : School Simulator was released on Jan 28, 2021.

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