Ten back to school games
Classes, dorms and school years, for the first weeks of school
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Persona 5 2016
A school year in Tokyo, divided between classes, the Confidants you get to know and the Palaces, one per villain, that the Phantom Thieves break into. Days, dungeons and people fall into a rhythm, set to an acid jazz score.
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses 2019
Byleth, a former mercenary with a mysterious past, becomes a professor at the monastery school of Garreg Mach and chooses which of its three houses, one per nation of Fódlan, to teach.
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Life Is Strange 2015
Max Caulfield, a student at Blackwell Academy in a small American town, finds she can rewind time as she looks into the disappearance of Rachel Amber, across five episodes.
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Clannad 2004
In Key's long visual novel, Tomoya Okazaki, a third year student with no plans for the future, meets Nagisa Furukawa, who wants to bring back a disbanded drama club.
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Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes 2011
Lilli, a shy pupil at a strict convent boarding school, has to remove every trace of Edna, who is escaping a planned brainwashing, in the sequel to Edna & Harvey: The Breakout.
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Bully 2006
An open world game in which Jimmy Hopkins, a teenage troublemaker, is sent to Bullworth Academy and tries to rise through the school and earn the respect of its cliques.
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Rival Schools: United by Fate 1997
Students from rival schools in a Japanese city fight it out in teams of two, with Batsu of Taiyo High School at the centre of a comical story.
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The Oregon Trail 1971
Three college students wrote this text game in 1971 to teach schoolchildren about pioneer life, taking a wagon train from Missouri to Oregon in 1847, two weeks of the trail at a time.
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Tokimeki Memorial 1994
Three years at Kirameki High School to plan, studying, training and dating, while any girl you neglect gossips and lowers what the others think of you.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Duel Academy 2005
Start in the lowest dorm of Duel Academy and duel your way up through the ranks of the first anime season. Booster packs from your wins build the deck, and the rules match the real card game.
