About the 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!
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Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 8506022
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Hello Scholars!
Today at 10am CEST we are fixing some outdated in-game links to improve your experience.
You will be requested to download this small update next time you play the game.
Thanks for playing!
The Academia: School Simulator team
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Today at 10am CEST we are fixing some outdated in-game links to improve your experience.
You will be requested to download this small update next time you play the game.
Thanks for playing!
The Academia: School Simulator team
Fixed bug where detention facilitator is not assigned when classroom was set to detention but didn't have enough teachers yet. Once new teachers are hired, the detention classroom should be a assigned an available teacher.
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- Fixed errors reported from cloud diagnostics
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- Fixes to errors reported by cloud diagnostics
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- Fixed bug where Goon is stuck because no Monitor is apprehending it (already went home)
- Fixed errors reported by Cloud Diagnostics
- Fixed modal message no longer showing when saving
- Fixed text of motivation effect of Career Day
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- Fixed errors reported by Cloud Diagnostics
- Fixed modal message no longer showing when saving
- Fixed text of motivation effect of Career Day
- Fix bug where Dropout Deduction is cancelled even when there are no dropouts
- Fix errors reported by cloud diagnostics
- Fixed error when loading flag textures on some non English regional settings
- Fixed applied language mods not appearing in game
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- Fix errors reported by cloud diagnostics
- Fixed error when loading flag textures on some non English regional settings
- Fixed applied language mods not appearing in game
- Fixed bug where dropout deduction grant is cancelled even when there was no change in dropouts
- Handle errors when loading flag textures
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- Handle errors when loading flag textures
- Fixed bug where cashflow is reapplied when loading a save file that is at 6am
- Minor localization fixes
- Fixed errors reported from cloud diagnostics
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- Minor localization fixes
- Fixed errors reported from cloud diagnostics
- Fixed bug where clicking on the small assign button on the thumbnail in Hire Teacher Panel assigns the currently selected teacher instead of the teacher represented in the thumbnail.
- Optimized rendering for blueprint objects
- Fixed bug where achievements are still being processed on sandbox
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- Optimized rendering for blueprint objects
- Fixed bug where achievements are still being processed on sandbox
- Fixed motivation bar shown as zero on start of day
- Fixed wrong dropout check
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- Fixed wrong dropout check
- Updated localization
- Small memory optimizations
- Small runtime optimizations
- Fixed build item labels that are difficult to read in Thai and Chinese
- Fixed names aren't being localized
- Fixed principal advantages and disadvantages aren't readable in Thai and Chinese
- Fixed wrong sold school logic for the money option
- Fixed achievements processing lag in big schools
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- Small memory optimizations
- Small runtime optimizations
- Fixed build item labels that are difficult to read in Thai and Chinese
- Fixed names aren't being localized
- Fixed principal advantages and disadvantages aren't readable in Thai and Chinese
- Fixed wrong sold school logic for the money option
- Fixed achievements processing lag in big schools
- Fixed Selected Teacher info's being cleared when firing current teacher
- Added tooltip in Free delinquency group
- Fixed wrong satisfaction reports when expelling a student
- Fixed 1 last sick student doesn't trigger game over
- Stop expelled students from doing plans
- Fixed bug where schedule is not followed on load of game
- Updated food satisfaction AI actions
- Localization updates
- Added Russian language
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- Added tooltip in Free delinquency group
- Fixed wrong satisfaction reports when expelling a student
- Fixed 1 last sick student doesn't trigger game over
- Stop expelled students from doing plans
- Fixed bug where schedule is not followed on load of game
- Updated food satisfaction AI actions
- Localization updates
- Added Russian language
Current Release
Build 8506022
Uploaded Aug 23, 2026
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
2.0 GHz
RAM
4 GB RAM
GPU
onboard
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Academia.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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