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Return to campus

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

An open world school game, you can bully your classmates, collect protection fees, go to the supermarket to make zero-dollar purchases, or even blow up the school. Of course, you can also study hard and exchange ideas with your classmates.

What works
  • High player freedom and sandbox gameplay
  • Humorous and absurd content
  • Free to play
  • Unique and experimental design
  • Nostalgic campus atmosphere
Things to keep in mind
  • Poor optimization and frequent bugs
  • Bad translation and localization
  • Inconsistent graphics and animations
  • Racist and offensive content
  • Lack of clear objectives and progression

What to play next

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  • Skoof Simulator

  • Artis Impact

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Sewer Rave

  • Quadrober Simulator

  • Fleeting Iris
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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Return to campus: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Domination, Violence, Idle.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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