Last updated on November 27th, 2025 at 07:52 pm
Pocket Academy ZERO – Simulation Game Review
Pocket Academy ZERO is a Simulation/Entertainment/Adventure game from Kairosoft Co.,Ltd, first launched in 27th December 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 96+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pocket Academy ZERO Stand Out
Play the full game for free!
There's also Pocket Academy 2, with more club activities and student relationships.
Build a school with classrooms of your choice and help students realize their full potential and pursue the career path that's best for them!
Attract more students to enroll by offering lots of different facilities and providing excellent teaching to help students pass their exams.
There are special events in Summer and Fall, such as Choral Competition, Athletic Meet, and Corn Roast. They're a great chance to make new friends.
If your students get good grades, they may get invited to events such as quizzes or contests.
Graduating students take a placement test. Will they realize their dreams?
Note: the app downloads data when you start it. Make sure you have good internet connection.
Try searching for "Kairosoft" to see all of our games, or visit us at https://kairopark.jp. Be sure to check out both our free-to-play and our paid games!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pocket Academy ZERO is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th February 2025
Recent improvements include:
Fixed minor issues.
Download & Availability
Pocket Academy ZERO is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pocket Academy ZERO on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Ive played a lot of Cairosoft games, but for a free version, this one is probably our favorite. We love the graphics and although at some point we do reach the end of what we can accomplish, its fun to rebuild and start over trying different things and seeing how quickly we can improve. The ads arent annoying either and we can often play for a long time without being bothered by one.
This is a very good game and is completely free to play. If you want to play a Kairosoft game this is a pretty good game to get. Only complaint is not too much content and there are some ads (not that many though). Overall, very good.
Not the best tutorial but once you learn what youre doing its a fun game. We like the ghost teacher.
We play almost every Kairosoft game. This on is easily in our top 5. It is very easy to spend hours playing this game or even just for a bit everyday.
Wish you got more game cash for graduation.
Fun and addictive. We wish we could turn off the music/sound. We also want to play offline so we dont use up our high speed data playing it. This is our second game by this company, and both are greatly addictive and we can play for hours. Ill probably buy the next version of Pocket Academy that has even more features, plus some other games of theirs that Ive had our eye on. Thanks.
This app is good but every time we have a classroom place one or two students cant get in because it isnt connected to the main gate. Doesnt make sense especially when we can add more then one gate for them to get in the school. When we click on the classroom it doesnt tell us its not connected to the gate and is fine. So why is only some students and teachers affected by this. Overall good game though.
The Japanese version had two games, this one, which is a prequel, and Pocket Academy, which is the sequel. We had Pocket Academy before and when we downloaded this we neglected to read the description and didnt realize a lot of the features were taken out. This is a good game but it pales in comparison to the original Pocket Academy. If youre wondering, heres a full list of the missing features in this game, that we could notice off the bat: 1. Student relationships dont exist. 2. No clubs. 3. Cannot change uniforms during play through. 4. Strangely, most of the characters in this have brown hair. In the original, they had blonde hair and mainly blue eyes. 5. Less structures. In the first town at least, we feel as if there arent a lot of facilities. Im only at year 6 and Ive gone through all of them already, and we have at least one of everything. This is a good game if youre thinking about downloading Pocket Academy but want to try it out first. This is a full game and not at all a demo, however its just missing a few key components that the second covers much better. Good game for beginner Kairosoft fans! Its free, so how can we complain.
Its interesting but similar to PA1. Shall we have magic school sim that have more creative events or class, potion recipes, fantasy monsters, etc. (And hope it can be a paid game without in game purchase).
We were wondering if there was any combination of all of them free and non-free this is a request please make a combination of all of them thank you.
We like this game but we dont know how to build a road. How do you build a road.
Great game but the students started to say that the classroom is not connected to the main gate. Its only one student of each class Ive tried seeing what we can do but nothing is changing.
But we have been unable to obtain/find the Art Room. If it is not available in this version please remove it from the Spot Guide. We also wish for specific listed differences, side by side, between PAZero and PA, either in the Help menu, your website, or on the Kairosoft Wiki. Thanks for making great games! We wish we could transfer our data from our android tablet to our iPhone <3 we own and love almost all of your games and have put many hours and dollars into them but Ive been unable to use our tablet for months now with no possible fix.
We have every kairosoft game that is in English. We have been playing their games for years. We were so excited for this as we have seen it in Japanese for awhile. But Im a little disappointed. We thought it was going to be a second version to pocket academy. But it seems to be a prequel instead. The combos from the original arent always the same. There seem to be less buildings, combos, and features. There are no clubs? No relationships? Im only on year 7 of the first map. So maybe its just not in this map as all the maps are normally different…. But still. We love the simplicity of these games with secret intensity the further you get into them. They are highly addictive. Our favorites are still Edo Town, Game Dev & Dream House.
Free demo but force you to sit through ads?! Not very good customer service or business model. No thanks.
:D so happy you guys made this one free! We love all kairosoft games! And this was is just as great as our favorite (pool side story).
We really want to say something good about the game but it got bugged early on. None of our staff or students could find a way in and continue to not show up.
We really like the game, its just hard to understand, if possible please put it in English so we could understand more. Thank you for making the game.
Put need English language please ,thank you.
HEY UM we REALLY LIKE GAME BUT we DONT SPEAK JAPANESE AN UPDATED ENGLISH VERSION WOULD BE GREAT YEAH THANKS.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.18
- Size: 50.97 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA, KO, ZH, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Last updated: 5th February 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Entertainment | Developer: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd