Game Groups > Theme: School

This group should contain games that center (in full or partially) around elementary or high-school students or locations. Player may be a student, a teacher, a bystander, a specter, or whatever. Not every game related to school should be included, for more info see the dos and don'ts below.

Games that should be in this group are:

• If player visits any school during gameplay and can enter school grounds somehow (this is more often case if the player is a student, but can happen if the player is, say, a detective who is solving a case that involves talking to students and visiting schools campus)
• One of the locations you visit during gameplay is a school, even if it is no longer active (e.g. Silent Hill)
• If the school is imaginary version of the school, but is visitable (e.g. in Legend of Kyrandia 3 you can visit a classroom where teacher and students are all fish)
• Imaginary academies that look more like schools than universities (e.g. Harry Potter goes to imaginary academy that is more like school than university, which can be most easily deducted by the age of its students)

Games that should NOT be in this group are:

• If the school is no longer a school during the game (e.g. in the game there is a hospital that was in the past used as a school)
• If the player is a student of an elementary or high-school, but none of the in-game locations actually let you visit the school campus (e.g. if you are a student and game story happens during summer holidays and you never get to go to any location within a school campus)
• Quiz games and the like where you are learning from the teacher NPC, but are assuming all this learning is happening in school, but you cannot go to any school location (e.g. if puzzle game lets you solve math problems on the chalk board, chalk board indicates the gameplay is in school, but it is not visible, often case with NDS puzzle and learning games where you only see the problem at hand or a teacher NPC teaching you, but not the school itself)
• If the school in question is for adults (e.g. night classes), or is a guild (e.g. mage guild) that teaches you science, magic, etc., then it shouldn't qualify as elementary or high-school