School Grounds

School Grounds

JubleLemonSeed · December 14, 2018 · Free to Play, Indie, Gore, Casual, Horror

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School Grounds price

School Grounds is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About School Grounds

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School Grounds is a first person survival horror game where you navigate an abandoned school while managing limited resources like battery life and healing items to uncover its dark mysteries. The experience combines exploration and evasion gameplay as you avoid lurking threats and piece together the story through discovered journal pages.

First person survival horror experience taking place in an abandoned school.
Manage battery life, collect healing items, read lost journal pages, and avoid the things lurking in the school to discover the mystery behind the scenes.

School Grounds — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jan 18, 2025
"School Grounds" is one of literally hundreds, if not thousands of Unity based first person horror jumpscare asset flips infesting Steam. Observe the outcome as the developer "borrows" a bunch of assets from the Unity Asset Store and puts his own name on them. Even if there's no up front price, asset flipping and plagiarism like this is never okay. It's bad for everyone, and it gives indie devs a bad name. Wander around a Unity schoolyard asset with the lights out and get jumpscared by a mannequin asset... that's all that happens... it's a waste of time. The game graphics look better than you might expect, but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever. Gamers can tell... and it comes across as insincere. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free…
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Not recommended May 24, 2026
ts was ass vro, the 3 armed mannyquin was highkey bad tho, they tickled my pickle. my name was debussy dilbert and the 3 arm was tilly
Not recommended Apr 23, 2026
Everybody down here saying the AI sucks but i couldn't even get in the school before my batteries ran out and replacing them did nothing, actually they worked even worse after that. i always find it so weird when devs make actually getting in the place where the "horror" is a challenge. you guys ever notice that? i dont mean like a hard challenge to conquer i mean like why is even getting into the school a problem a thing. i get being out of the school to start to build atmosphere, i even get if you have to walk a bit, but why like... hide or obscure the way in? doesnt that sap the player's immersion before the game even starts? like how every ftf clone starts with getting your keys to leave your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ apartment or driving to the place and nothing happens JUST START ME THERE. resident evil doesnt start with you wandering through a dark forest trying to find a key to the mansion it starts in the mansion, knawmean?
Recommended Nov 9, 2025
Игра «School Grounds» — увлекательный симулятор управления школой, где игрок строит здания, организует мероприятия и развивает образовательную среду. Графика простая, но стилизованная, а геймплей предлагает свободу творчества: можно создавать уникальные зоны, проводить конкурсы или улучшать инфраструктуру. Однако система управления местами иногда запутана, а задачи могут быть слишком абстрактными. Минус — отсутствие глубины в сюжете и ограниченный выбор действий. Подойдёт тем, кто ценит стратегии с элементами творчества, но не ждите масштабных сюжетных линий. В целом — познавательно и весело, но не для всех.
Not recommended May 16, 2025
Waste of time.
Not recommended May 29, 2023
Badly damaged. I couldn't even get it to load most of the time and the one time I did it was nothing but one big lag. Hopefully this can be resolved as it seems like it has potential.

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