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Academia : School Simulator

Squeaky Wheel Studio Inc · Paradox Interactive · 2021-01-28

SteamGOG

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 08, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 08, 2017 (Mac)

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!

17
playing now
86%
positive of 3.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

17 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 17 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 132 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~17/week).
  • · Review velocity up 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 62k–138k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,076 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.99 at GOG (2026-06-01) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 37 of 70 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
656520182026Week of 2018-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3672026-08-06 23:00 — 33 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 20 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 25 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 34 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 23 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 35 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 23 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 14 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 31 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 21 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 15 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 27 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 21 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 13 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 26 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 22 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 14 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 15 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 22 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 19 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 23 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 16 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 32 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 23 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 19 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 22 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 17 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$4.992017-09-092026-08-302017-09-09 — best price $15.992018-09-15 — best price $19.992019-06-26 — best price $14.992020-01-27 — best price $19.992020-10-19 — best price $15.992020-12-22 — best price $15.992021-12-01 — best price $19.992022-06-13 — best price $19.992022-07-22 — best price $11.722022-08-19 — best price $11.892022-10-19 — best price $17.482022-12-22 — best price $13.992023-02-07 — best price $19.992023-05-03 — best price $17.632023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-10-23 — best price $11.992024-01-05 — best price $19.992024-02-13 — best price $17.992024-04-08 — best price $16.992024-05-27 — best price $9.992024-07-14 — best price $19.992024-08-22 — best price $19.992024-09-27 — best price $10.002024-11-05 — best price $16.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-15 — best price $19.992025-04-20 — best price $17.992025-06-16 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-12-20 — best price $17.882026-03-19 — best price $8.082026-05-07 — best price $19.992026-08-03 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
69.2%
earned "Freshman Zoner"
34.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing

13 supported languages: English, Japanese, German, Russian, French, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Thai…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,9221%140

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyEconomySandboxBuildingStrategyTop-DownRealisticCapitalism

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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