The player must build various educational rooms such as classrooms, lecture halls and libraries, as well as organizing different cultural events and extra-curricular activities.

[2] Each student also has their own specific needs, and they will either succeed, fail or drop out of school depending on how they were guided during their time in the campus.

Financial management remains an important gameplay pillar, as constructing new buildings and maintaining the happiness of the students would all cost money.

The team believed that by allowing players to see how the students evolve throughout the in-game academic years, they will start to care for them.

According to game director Gary Carr, "the byproduct we want is when you say goodbye to your first enrollment, if we can make you have a little tear in your eye as you're waving them off into the great wide world, that's awesome".

[7][8][9][10] Two Point Studios announced in April 2022 that the team had delayed the game's release date to 9 August 2022.

[11] Two Point Studios supported the game with several downloadable content packs, each introducing new courses, maps, student types, and decoration items.

[19] It was the second best-selling boxed game in the UK in its week of release, behind Horizon: Forbidden West.