Games Like Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story

Not all heroes are born, many are forged by the finest Hero School – yours. Take command of the faculty, nurture a unique and ever-growing roster of students, and earn your place among the most prestigious schools in the world of Valthiria.

Why similar: JRPG 22.7%, Management 17.5%, Isometric 12.5%, Anime 10.1%, RPG 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel refines the school management and combat mechanics of the original with improved visuals and deeper party customization.

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Management 42.8%, Simulation 22.7%, Strategy 15.4%, Funny 14.5%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the magical school management aspect, requiring you to build facilities and manage a curriculum for aspiring mages.

Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!

Why similar: Management 48.6%, Fantasy 32.3%, Simulation 17.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This classic simulation title captures the exact loop of managing a fantasy town that attracts and trains heroes for dungeon exploration.

Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!

Why similar: RPG 25.5%, Simulation 23.7%, Strategy 23.3%, Fantasy 15.3%, Management 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Expanding on the original, this sequel offers more diverse environments and deeper management options for your growing hero community.

Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

Why similar: Management 37.9%, Top-Down 18.2%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Funny 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a detailed look at the logistics of running a school, from hiring staff to managing student needs and infrastructure.

Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!

Why similar: Management 42.1%, Strategy 19.6%, Simulation 18.1%, Funny 16.7%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive school management simulator that allows for intricate facility design and student development similar to the academy building in Valthirian Arc.

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: Management 35.1%, Isometric 17.2%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 13.7%, Funny 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more comedic, this game provides the definitive school management experience with deep building mechanics and student life simulation.

Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs is a tactical RPG set in a cheerful fantasy world full of weirdness and wonder. Assemble your party, go adventuring, manage your kingdom, make new friends, and defeat your opponents in challenging turn-based combat.

Why similar: JRPG 29.8%, Isometric 14.5%, Tactical 10%, Anime 10%, Fantasy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines kingdom management with turn-based tactical combat, providing a similar sense of progression and character-driven adventure.

Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!

Why similar: JRPG 34.6%, Anime 21.5%, RPG 14.4%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly balances the management of a fantasy-themed business with the need to hire and equip adventurers for dungeon crawling.

Particus Academy is ready for a new school year! Return to school in the hit DRPG, choosing from different races and traits to create your ideal cohort of students, and throw them at the dungeons! Will you come out stronger or wind up in the infirmary, only one way to find out!

Why similar: JRPG 44.9%, RPG 17.1%, Strategy 15.2%, Anime 14.5%, Adventure 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This dungeon crawler focuses heavily on the school setting, where you build parties of students to explore dangerous labyrinths.

A turn-based tactical RPG about a group of troublesome magic students. Use timing mechanics to power your spells and block attacks, explore the twisted halls of a vast magic school, fight challenging monsters and bosses, and uncover dark secrets never meant to be found.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, JRPG 24.3%, RPG 22.8%, Fantasy 11.7%, Isometric 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG set in a magic school that emphasizes the relationships between students and the challenges of academic life.

WitchSpring R is a story-driven RPG combining elements of collecting, simulation, and battling. Experience the joy of training a young witch and accompany her on a grand adventure!

Why similar: JRPG 36.6%, RPG 16%, Funny 15.9%, Anime 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

Why You'll Like It: This charming RPG features a strong focus on training and character growth within a magical fantasy world.

Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...

Why similar: JRPG 27.2%, Tactical 15.1%, Top-Down 12.4%, Anime 11.3%, Fantasy 10%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-RPG that emphasizes the growth and development of a student-like army through intense turn-based combat.

Gladiator School is a Tycoon-style simulation game. You play as the master of a newly formed school for gladiators. Your job is to prepare and train recruits before you send them away to fight for their survival and entertain the crowd in the arena.

Why similar: Management 26.6%, Simulation 25.4%, Strategy 24.9%, RPG 9.5%, Funny 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the training and management of warriors, capturing the 'school for fighters' theme through a gritty, strategic lens.

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Management 29.7%, Top-Down 16%, RPG 15.8%, Fantasy 12.7%, Simulation 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully bridges the gap between managing a shop during the day and exploring dangerous dungeons at night to gather resources.

Make your dream school in this management simulation game! School got you down?

Why similar: Dating Sim 35.7%, Management 29.4%, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 13.1%, Adventure 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic Kairosoft simulation that focuses on the day-to-day operations and growth of a school environment.

Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!

Why similar: Management 29.5%, Isometric 19.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 12.6%, Fantasy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation game puts you in charge of building a kingdom that attracts heroes, mirroring the management goals of Valthirian Arc.

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world.Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes.

Why similar: Management 54.1%, Simulation 22.8%, Funny 12.1%, RPG 8.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a shop that caters to heroes, requiring you to craft gear and manage resources to support the adventurers who visit your store.

Freely build your magic academy and choose qpprentices from over 200 traits: genius, eccentric, or perhaps a fool? Select from hundreds of wizard classes to face hundreds of different event challenges, resist the invasion of the abyss, and save the entire empire from crisis.

Why similar: Management 43.8%, Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 18.6%, Fantasy 16.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines management and card-based strategy to simulate the experience of running a magical school for heroes.

"Soul Academy" is an academy simulator with automatic battle MOBA. You will manage a shabby soul academy, recruiting and training students. Your ultimate goal is to challenge various academies across the continent and reach the top.

Why similar: Tactical 28.2%, Anime 19.2%, Simulation 17.6%, Management 16.9%, Strategy 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical management game that tasks you with building and training a team of heroes within a structured academy setting.

Having just opened an inn, you set out to create a comfortable environment to bring in tired adventurers looking for respite after their questing. Earn money, upgrade your inn, and befriend a diverse cast of characters!

Why similar: JRPG 24.7%, Management 21.7%, RPG 13.4%, Anime 12.6%, Simulation 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation where you run an inn for adventurers, focusing on the support side of the hero-questing cycle.

It's time for classmating! Monsters have invaded the world of Aterra, and only a few special individuals, imbued with the power of the Star God, are equipped to fight it. Combine your Star power to make magical Star Children to boost up your forces in battle!

Why similar: JRPG 38.9%, Dating Sim 23.1%, Anime 19.9%, RPG 17.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique blend of school-life social simulation and dungeon-crawling RPG mechanics with a heavy focus on party building.

Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.

Why similar: Management 54.7%, Strategy 25.3%, Simulation 17%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the colony-sim and management aspects of running a school for wizards in a fantasy setting.

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: JRPG 46.4%, Dating Sim 23.8%, RPG 11.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a medical practice and gather ingredients in the wild, blending life simulation with RPG-style questing and character interaction.

Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game. Manage your time and balance between studying magic, part-time jobs, and befriending (or romance) classmates in this wholesome and enchanting world!

Why similar: Dating Sim 36.1%, Management 27.7%, LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Simulation 14%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A life-sim that focuses on the daily routine and social aspects of attending a magical academy.

School Owner is a construction and management simulation game where you manage an entire school, from pre-school to college.

Why similar: Simulation 22.7%, Strategy 20.7%, Management 20.5%, Isometric 18.1%, Tactical 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated school management simulator that emphasizes resource allocation and facility upgrades to improve student performance.

TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is the first season of a turn-based strategy SRPG that takes place in the world of Troubleshooter.

Why similar: JRPG 51.3%, RPG 17.1%, Anime 15.9%, Strategy 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep tactical RPG that features extensive character management and progression systems for a team of specialized heroes.

Train your baseball players and create a winning team!

Why similar: Simulation 46.6%, Strategy 38.2%, Action 6%, Adventure 5.4%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Though sports-themed, this management sim captures the essence of training a team of students to reach their full potential.

Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics... and by that I mean it's a choose-your-own-adventure action RPG with the ability to trade ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGHS between friends!!

Why similar: JRPG 31.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Dating Sim 22%, RPG 12.5%, Funny 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG that emphasizes exploration and character interaction, capturing the adventurous spirit of the Valthirian Arc students.

At Thors Military Academy, Erebonia’s best learn everything from the art of war to liberal arts. First year Rean Schwarzer learns he’s been selected to join the controversial Class VII, and they’ll need to deal with more than just class warfare--they’ll need to safeguard their country from chaos.

Why similar: JRPG 54.6%, Anime 16.5%, RPG 13.9%, Fantasy 5.5%, Dating Sim 3.6%

A campus simulation game full of tons of surprising interactive gameplay elements along the way.

Why similar: JRPG 31.9%, Dating Sim 27.3%, RPG 12.4%, Simulation 10.9%, Anime 9.9%

Patty's brother has been possessed by the God of Poverty and the whole family has become poor. Run an adventure tavern in a fantasy land with Patty to pay their dept! A turn-based RPG where you cook, eat, collect, fight and explore!

Why similar: JRPG 26.5%, RPG 18.8%, Management 15.9%, Strategy 15.6%, Anime 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-RPG hybrid where you run a tavern and explore dungeons for ingredients, mirroring the loop of Valthirian Arc.

Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...

Why similar: Dating Sim 35.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, RPG 11.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Adventure 8.2%

Grind for resources, manage your own fantasy village, create and equip your heroes and send them to collect swag in Swag and Sorcery - a new streamlined RPG from the creators of Punch Club and Graveyard Keeper.

Why similar: Management 37.3%, RPG 20.3%, Funny 15.7%, Fantasy 14.2%, Adventure 8.4%

You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.

Why similar: Dating Sim 36.9%, Anime 20.1%, RPG 14.9%, Fantasy 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 6.6%

[game type] AVG + simulated love cultivation[game rating] objects aged 18 and above[game theme] BL ancient Roman wind school daily + hot-blooded battle

Why similar: Dating Sim 30.6%, LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Anime 17.7%, RPG 13.1%, Strategy 7.8%

Are you ready to become a legendary martial arts master? Build your own school, train your students, and battle rival schools to become the strongest. Join tournaments, raise your grasshoppers, and most importantly, collect tuition from your students!

Why similar: Management 49.2%, RPG 22.4%, Simulation 18.3%, Action 10.1%

Tactical RPG about 5 stunt actors who decide to quit their jobs and start their own Power Rangers-inspired TV show! Cast actors, upgrade your studio, craft Mechas of cardboard and duct tape. Once the cameras are rolling, control your cast of 5 colored-jumpsuit-clad warriors in turn-based battles.

Why similar: RPG 32.2%, Strategy 26.8%, Management 24%, Isometric 8.4%, Funny 4.8%

Anime City is a Japanese high school simulator, focused on anime culture and aesthetics. Study, join school clubs, and make friends.

Why similar: Dating Sim 38.4%, Anime 29.7%, Simulation 17.6%, Adventure 10.7%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Become the new Guild Master of the Adventurer Guild and lead your adventurers in explorations and turnbased tactical battles. Will the Guild thrive under your leadership? Or will it finally disband under it?

Why similar: Management 36.4%, RPG 16.6%, Anime 15.4%, Fantasy 11.6%, Tactical 9.5%

Swords & Souls: Neverseen is a unique RPG where leveling up takes skill! Create, train and upgrade your character as you please, discover The Neverseen and its eccentric locals, and battle across the lands to foil an evil witch's plans!

Why similar: RPG 28%, Funny 21%, Fantasy 20.9%, Strategy 17.7%, Action 7.2%

Blade Prince Academy is a new take on tactical RPGs, where you lead your squad of Blade Princes to defend the city of Abjectalia in real-time with pause combat. Use your team's power to devastate any threat, but be vigilant, there is always a price to pay when you make a pact with darkness.

Why similar: Anime 29.4%, Strategy 24.8%, RPG 21.6%, Tactical 19.9%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Build an Adventure Park from the ground up! The PuPu clan had just rented a new "playground" from the Dark Goblins. Manage the park, construct park facilities, and grow your clan to serve the expansion of the Park for "hero" customers summoned from other planets!

Why similar: Management 30%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 12.6%, Fantasy 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%

Design your own wizard to attend a magical school. Learn spells, explore dungeons, make friends, and find a date for the May Day Ball. But be careful, everyone has secrets - including you!

Why similar: Dating Sim 26.1%, RPG 19.8%, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Simulation 16%, Adventure 7.9%

Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!

Why similar: Dating Sim 26.6%, JRPG 23.8%, Anime 15%, RPG 13.6%, Simulation 10.8%

A mixture of incremental/idle and roleplaying game set in fantasy world filled with monsters and things to explore, where battling is constant, almost everything can be upgraded, and with wide array of various prestige mechanics to always keep things interesting and moving forward!

Why similar: JRPG 35.4%, Management 21.1%, Anime 13%, RPG 12.3%, Fantasy 11.4%

Date your weapons! Romance swords, daggers, and polearms to level them up in this “shack-and-slash” dungeon crawling adventure.

Why similar: Dating Sim 26.2%, LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Isometric 19.8%, RPG 12.7%, Funny 12.6%

Isekai Adventurer Guild is an SRPG roguelite where you train adventurers and go on quests together.People and monsters from Isekai have appeared.As the guild master, train adventurers and fight alongside them to solve the mysteries threatening the world!

Why similar: JRPG 34.9%, Isometric 16.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 13%, Anime 8.4%

Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mysterious island.

Why similar: JRPG 31.9%, Isometric 21.1%, Tactical 14.1%, Anime 9.8%, RPG 8.2%

Grab a backpack, boxing tape, and focus on what high school is all about: Beating the ever loving crap out of one another! Troublemaker blends favorite action-adventure-beat-'em-up elements from the strongest traditions in the genre.

Why similar: JRPG 44%, Funny 12.9%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Adventure 9.9%

From the void, the gods of darkness and light created Agarest, a most perfect and divine world. As the generations passed, paradise sadly fell to the ravages of time. War darkened the skies and Agarest soon became a torturous hell as the gods divided and immense armies clashed, desecrating the once beautiful land…

Why similar: JRPG 38%, Anime 18.4%, RPG 11.4%, Dating Sim 8.7%, Strategy 8.6%

A wizard academy management sim where you—an obviously benevolent professor—must manage & cast spells on your many apprentices so that they might study the right spells… and perhaps even survive the researching process. Some may die, but oh well, can’t save them all!

Why similar: Management 44.8%, Simulation 17.1%, Strategy 14.8%, Fantasy 13.3%, RPG 10.1%

To be a "leader" that guides others forward, or to be an uncompromising "ruler"...VARLET is a school life RPG where, through encounters with troubled boys and girls who are also searching for themselves, you begin to uncover a version of yourself you never knew existed.

Why similar: JRPG 59.9%, Anime 22.3%, RPG 17.8%

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Why similar: Management 49.3%, Fantasy 23.6%, Simulation 22.3%, Singleplayer 4.8%

An action anime RPG adventure!

Why similar: Funny 47.5%, Anime 26.2%, RPG 14.9%, Strategy 6.5%, Fantasy 3.8%

Intrigue, betrayal, deaths! A LGBT+ survival Raising Simulation in a high-fantasy royal court setting with RPG elements.

Why similar: Dating Sim 23.5%, LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Management 13.4%, RPG 13%, Simulation 12.1%

Build your vocational academy to turn adventurers into your idle heroes, liven up the deserted streets, and advance the levels together!

Why similar: RPG 51.8%, Fantasy 41.8%, Singleplayer 6.4%

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: Management 27.7%, RPG 19.4%, Top-Down 19.1%, Simulation 16.5%, Fantasy 14.7%