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Academia : School Simulator
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!
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Very Positive (2,586) - 85% of the 2,586 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
8 Sep, 2017
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Paradox Interactive

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Reviews

“I initially forget to put in bathrooms, though I'm sharp enough to notice that my students keep running outside to pee in the bushes. Let the trauma and embarrassment of school life begin!”
PC Gamer

“Academia: School Simulator’s Steam page suggests you can make the high school of your dreams. But my school, Leo’s Learning Emporium ended up as more of a dystopian nightmare.”
Kotaku

“I had a giddy moment during the trailer where something about the blocky classrooms and organisation of desks catapulted me towards a recollection of my own school.”
Rock Paper Shotgun

Development Process

We are developing with an iterative development process. We have created three different build branches to reflect that process and cater to different players.

Test Branch - Updated ~1x/week


This branch will have the newest features but will have many bugs. We need help from brave souls to use this branch and help us test new features.

Candidate Branch - Updated ~2x/month


This branch will have some newer features and be more stable than Test branch.

Default Branch - Updated ~1x/month


The default branch will be the most stable, we recommend this for players who want to deal with less bugs and just enjoy the game. We will make update announcements when we release to this branch.

To access the different branches, please follow these instructions:


1) Go to your game library and right click on Academia School Simulator
2) In the pop up window, find and click on Properties.
3) In the properties window, click on the Betas Tab
4) Under Enter beta access code to unlock private betas type :

Candidate : academiacandidate
Test : academiatest

5) Click on "check code"
6) Under "Select the beta you would like to opt into" click on the dropdown menu and click on the branch you unlocked
7) You should now have access to the branch

Note : to return to the default build, simple click on the dropdown menu and select NONE.

About This Game


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!

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    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:
    • OS *: Windows 7,8,8.1,10 64-bit
    • Processor: 2.8 Ghz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: onboard
    • Storage: 400 MB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Mac OS High Sierra 10.13+
    • Processor: 2.0 GHz
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: onboard
    • Storage: 400 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Mac OS High Sierra 10.13+
    • Processor: 2.4Ghz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: onboard
    • Storage: 400 MB available space
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
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