Free games like Academia : School Simulator
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Academia : School Simulator, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Ranked picks
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play alternative to Academia : School Simulator — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Academia : School Simulator.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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Awaria
Free-to-play alternative to Academia : School Simulator — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Academia : School Simulator.
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
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Virtual Cottage
Free-to-play alternative to Academia : School Simulator — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Academia : School Simulator.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Steam Engine Simulator
Free-to-play alternative to Academia : School Simulator — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Academia : School Simulator.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Academia : School Simulator — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Academia : School Simulator.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Coloring Pixels
Free-to-play alternative to Academia : School Simulator — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Academia : School Simulator.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Academia : School Simulator — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Academia : School Simulator.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Academia : School Simulator — no purchase or trial window.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!