Academia School Simulator

Academia: School Simulator is a management and tycoon game in which you design, build, and run a high school. You decide whether to fit it with science labs, basketball courts, and art rooms or do the bare minimum and live off government subsidies, and whether to offer delinquent students counseling or simply send them to detention.

Students are driven by needs like hygiene, hunger, and discipline, and over time they grow more complex, competing in events like spelling bees and even falling in love. Teachers are unique, with their own subject specialties, degrees, and eventually their own motivations to satisfy. You build canteens, clinics, computer labs, and common areas, and can even plot janitor routes yourself for maximum efficiency.

Decorative objects from potted plants to fountains let you make your campus the envy of all, and you can customize the school seal and motto. Image mods support everything from brain-eating zombie students to a school run like a prison. Normal mode asks you to balance the budget, while sandbox gives unlimited money. The game comes from the artist of Prison Architect and the studio behind Political Animals.