Academia : School Simulator

Squeaky Wheel Studio · Jan 28, 2021

Rating Pending

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From the artist of Prison Architect and the studio that brought you Political Animals comes Academia : School Simulator, a simulation game that lets you design, construct, and manage the high school of your dreams! Watch your students as they get bullied, find love, flunk exams, and basically just try to get through the roller-coaster ride that is high school. Will you offer the best teachers and facilities or cheap out and build giant classrooms with a 1:100 teacher to student ratio? It's all up to you!

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Critic 7.3 (3 critics) · Gamer 8.5

Critic reviews

Softpedia
Cosmin Vasile · May 27, 2021
8.0
The game also served as a gateway to thinking and reading about the education process and its modern institutions. Academia features plenty of exaggerations and abstractions, required to make the gameplay palatable and the overall experience fun.
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3rd-strike.com
Pimp Without The Pee · Apr 02, 2021
6.8
Academia: School Simulator is a fun yet tiresome game. Creating and planning is all the fun, being limited by figuring out the best approach to survive like the poorest investor ever is not. We felt the researching system is broken as it limits the basics you’d expect to find in a school as well. A shame, because aside from the terribly strict “normal” settings, the game has a lot to offer.
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Brash Games
David Dodgson · Sep 12, 2017
7.0
As Academia is still in the early stages, it can’t be fully recommended as a must-buy game. However, I can say that it is very promising at this stage. As a tycoon game, it is fun and draws the player in to try and make a better school on each attempt. Future updates will add more features and a greater degree of challenge. With a committed development team, we can expect Academia to ultimately make the grade.