Are there ANY other games like this?

[Terry Hesticles]

This was legit my dream game until it was abandoned.

[Catlinica]

There's a discussion thread on the official forums for games that are like Academagia:
http://academagia.invisionzone.com/topic/1649-similar-games/

Also, according to the PR representative for the game, the Year 2 game is much more done than not, but progress is slow because the developers have other jobs that pay their bills, and have other projects they are interested in as well.
I don't have much nice to say about that, just like I don't have anything nice to say about the fact that their active project right now is a "but what if warships were sexy anime girls" one.
Year 2's release is a giant can of worms in the fandom, as you can probably see from some of the other threads on Steam. But speaking for myself, I will say that they do work on Y2 at...their own pace, more of a hobbyist one. But it's not abandoned.

[ian]

I really miss it. What freaks me out is that I'll probably play year 2 to death in, like, a month.
Then I'll have to wait a decade for year 3.
It's like dog years, but in reverse.

[wml11]

I highly recommend Magical Diary (currently on the Steam summer sale too) - the second year of it just came out a few months ago so the first one is pretty cheap. It's the same premise - you're a student at a magical school - but with more story than nitpicky details.

[tzubidu]

Originally posted by wml11:

I highly recommend Magical Diary (currently on the Steam summer sale too) - the second year of it just came out a few months ago so the first one is pretty cheap. It's the same premise - you're a student at a magical school - but with more story than nitpicky details.

Your wrong Magical Diary have 2 different 1st year and not a year 1 + a year 2.

[Duskmare]

Originally posted by Catalina:

There's a discussion thread on the official forums for games that are like Academagia:
http://academagia.invisionzone.com/topic/1649-similar-games/

Also, according to the PR representative for the game, the Year 2 game is much more done than not, but progress is slow because the developers have other jobs that pay their bills, and have other projects they are interested in as well.
I don't have much nice to say about that, just like I don't have anything nice to say about the fact that their active project right now is a "but what if warships were sexy anime girls" one.
Year 2's release is a giant can of worms in the fandom, as you can probably see from some of the other threads on Steam. But speaking for myself, I will say that they do work on Y2 at...their own pace, more of a hobbyist one. But it's not abandoned.

They really should have finished year 1 first. I mean, why would anyone buy a second game when the first is still sitting there half-finished?
There are activities, items and events just missing. Like, I've had a couple of activities pop up as rewards but then not be in the selection menu afterwards. Then there's a random event that's supposed to give you a Jade Necklace but it just says "need to add Jade Necklace" in brackets.

I get that they put a bunch of work into the game so far but honestly I would say they've made a game a mile long and an inch deep. There are 200,000 different skills but you can only train one at a time for a single point. Then you just have to hope that whatever you've trained comes up in quests. Like, why are there multiple skills for the same idea. Diplomacy, debate and persuasion are all pretty much the same thing. But it's just random which you'll need to convince someone of something in an event.
And since the whole story part of the game is entirely done through events you basically just have to be lucky, or know all the events in advance, to enjoy it.