Academia : School Simulator
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 7% over the last 30 days against 81% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, onboard, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 9 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 35 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Prison Architect ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder ($6.24, scores 9).
Players rate it 81 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 7 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 537 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 228 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
69% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
28 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 14:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Academia : School Simulator scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/672630/academia-school-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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