Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 05:29 am
Idle High School Tycoon – Casual Game Review
Idle High School Tycoon is a Casual/Simulation game from Kolibri Games GmbH, first launched in 30th August 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 5,631+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle High School Tycoon Stand Out
Have you ever wanted to run a school?
Get ready to manage the daily school lives of your students!
Witness their knowledge increase and exam scores improve as you upgrade your classes. Hire the best teachers to educate more efficiently and keep an eye on your students' wellbeing!
As your school grows, you will build more classrooms, teach different subjects, and admit more students. Your school will run even while you are not playing, so you will continue to earn cash even when offline!
IDLE HIGH SCHOOL TYCOON
- Become the Principal and run a high school!
- Manage your students as they ride the school bus, attend classes, and visit the Cafeteria!
- Profit from money investment to boost your reputation and become rich!
- Build up your idle millionaire empire simulation!
- Upgrade your school's equipment to increase your exam scores!
- Grow your fortune online or offline in this tycoon game!
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This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle High School Tycoon is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug Fixes
Download & Availability
Idle High School Tycoon is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Idle High School Tycoon 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:
We love it used to play it on our other phone but the newer music we dont like we like the older music.
This game is quite good! But how do you get the 600 to prestige to a new school level? We have been playing the game for over two weeks now and we have not been able to hit the 600 in education yet.
We really like this game so far. Its easy to play and we like the graphics.
Overall amazing game but we had to redownload this game twice because our progress wasnt saving and our daily rewards were not working.
We want the creator to make recess.
The game is great but we wish there was a way to make the text a bit bigger. Its so tiny and really hard to read.
We like and enjoy playing this game. The only thing that has us on the fence from purchase in app purchases or just completely deleting this game is when we go to watch videos for cash, the video stalls out to where we have to exit the game and restart the day again. Getting pretty frustrated.
We enjoy the game. However we have all of the upgrades, including the ones that require diamonds to upgrade. Have the best teachers & still can not get over 597.9 rating at the first school to prestige at 600.
This game is good and concept has potential, however this game punishes you badly for playing idle. Your idle resource rate is significantly lower than your in game rate. In game, every school hour (maybe 30-60 seconds) you earn money based off your schools rating which is great. Now, the second you go offline, your rates disappear. We are at a point where we earn $250 from our school ($500 with ad bonus). With out spending real money, you cant earn more than two real hours worth of income. But when we come back two hours later, we keep coming back to barely $100. We also noticed that if you unlock a new class before you close the app, the game wont register your new class until you let a full school day cycle through. It seems then when we go idle our school just stops working and its frustrating. Buying things cost our $5k+ now so coming back to $100-$200 after two hours is severely disappointing.
Why are 95% of all the teachers look African American.
We love the game and how it is made! The creators did a fantastic job on this game and we would like to say thank you.
This game is soooo fun although its frustrating we love it.
We love this game but Im concerned, so we added the bathroom into the school and we also added sinks so the students go to the bathroom and then they dont wash their hands.
We would like it more if we could get money faster.
We gave it a 4 because the lockers were so many upgrades so we wasted a whole day on trying to upgrade it like why did you have to add so many upgrades for one thing.
We have topped out our Idle High School and yet, we cannot get 600 prestige (for 1 star) because we have not purchased an addition for each classroom at 150 gems each for 6 classrooms. We purchased 1 and it puts the classroom at 100. Being forced to spend money in a game to progress is cheating on the part of the developers. We are working in the Capital High School. But when we max out the last classroom, we are stuck in the game. We can never get beyond 1 star schools because we spent our gems on 2 teachers which were totally not worth it. For 200 gems you get teachers with a 7 for knowledge but only 2 for happiness. Better off not purchasing them. How long have we been playing the game? 3 days. We will finish our last classroom late today or early tomorrow. Hardly seems worth it if we cannot progress. Why play a game if you cannot finish the first level? Its a fun game. But being forced to purchase puts our back up against the wall, and then we wont.
Even when you have everything maxed out, it is impossible to have your schools prestige (been this way for a while without a fix). This very much limits how much replay-ability this game has.
The game asked if we wanted to sync our progress with our cloud save rather than local, which was a no brainer since the cloud save had more hours and prestige than our local save. After doing so, our progress was set back SIGNIFICANTLY. Instant uninstall. So frustrating.
Its a good game but we have everything upgraded to the max and we cant do anything cause im waiting for the next classrooom to be built. We love this game but it takes forever to build the new classrooms, to rush the building you need gems which take real money so you cant do anything. Ive spent real money and Im still stuck and we dont wanna spend more.
We like the game bat theres an error. In one hafe sec 1 minit so the students walk so slow. But we still love it.
Um.. Hi. Our name is Mai, and we have two things for different people. PEOPLE FOR ALREADY DOWNLOAD: Hey guys! So we all pretty much like the game and Ik there are some haters out there, but anyway, so we were just getting ready 4 school and we opened the game in the bus on our phone and it started saying Hi! So your the new principal? Im like what the heck!? Ive had this game for quite a while now (a few months lol ) and it just RESTARTED THE WHOLE GAME!!!! Im like uhhgggggg, like COME ON. Im so upset still (but this just happened like 15 minutes ago). So for all those people who are playing the game now, please, please dont be surprised if it restarts It will most likely if: You have full storage on ur phone/ iPad / etc You dont have good Internet (Ik its a non internet game but still) If you are pretty far in the game PEOPLE WHO ARE OR MAY DOWNLOAD THE GAME: Hola come stas? Sorry, Im like rlly into Spanish rn. Anyway if you think ur not gonna like this game then just leave now, but if you think you ARE gonna like it then listen up. So we were just playing the game LIKE A NORMAL PERSON. Sry dont know what came over us, heh. So ya and then on da bus to school we opened the game and it said Hi, so ur the new principal? Which is what it says at the beginning of the game. So Im like, OMG IT STARTED OVER UGHHHH. As ur probably wondering, maybe we have siblings, or a raccoon got our phone and played the game and hated it the deleted it. Maybe!? Anyway, we dont have siblings and nojust no to the raccoon thing. So if ur gonna get this game, then beware, it may make u start over when you get far in it. And this isnt the game where money comes that easy. And everything costs A LOT. So ya Thank you for probably wasting ur time on us . So developers plz change this and thank you all. Bye have fun at school! (Not!) we allllll hate school.
You cant prestige till you spend real money. Dont waste you time unless you like spending real money to buy fake money.
There is a poor communication with the administrator. We have written several times with no response. Bad bad bad.
Why is it so hard to get the knowledge that you need to get new things. We thought we would be able to get it with money so can you fix that please.
On YouTube someone did a diamond glitch.
We LOVE the ad skip sold for this game. Genuinely useful and it does not make ads appear less frequently when you buy it. You get all the benefits of the ads without the annoyances of constantly watching 30-second videos The just released fix to the daily/weekly calendar makes the game even more generous. When you unlock the super powered teachers, the next month (it takes 28 days to get all four free premium teachers) you are guaranteed 200 gems every 7 days of playing we dont know if a third school or more prestiges or even research will be added in the future but this is such a fun game and, again, BEST AD SKIP we HAVE SEEN.
Just amazing. But we do have ONE favor we dont want to wait one day to be able to get more teachers!!! We dont have a teacher (thats smart) for art class.
When we download this game with our friend our classes are close to 100 percent and around 97 percent yet our students hate the classes all the time! Why is it like this.
We were really enjoying this game until we saw that , you have to pay $12.99 to remove ads!!! Thats outrageous! Thats the highest ad removal Ive ever seen on a app game!!! No thank you! We guess we wont be playing this game because theres to many ads.
We personally love tycoons and this one was really fun in the beginning until we realized how difficult it is to earn money and it makes it too slow paced. Its especially irritating when we open the game and have only made about two hundred bucks or so which is practically useless because everything is expensive as you continue to upgrade.
Ive fiddled with a handful of idle style games over the years, and this is not one if the better ones. There are no options for active play other than watching advertisements and tapping a mess every 30sec to remove. Idle income only matters while the app is active. Income while the app is closed is a small fraction of the idle income while the app is active, so much so that it is not worth factoring into upgrades at all. Ad watching is required from very early to progress. Sure, you can just let the game run but again, it has to be the active app on your device for that to matter anyway. So why not just run ads on your phone the whole time? That seems to be the logic anyway. Janitor AI is horrible, and they often stand around staring at a mess you had to manually clean to avoid ruining the students mood for the day, rather than going to the unattended spill down the hall. * The second school isnt substantially different from the first, but due to the rotation, the students dont seem to know how to face the correct direction in the cafeteria line. Obvious and should never have been published with this bug. There are better idle games out there. It shouldnt be hard to find one.
The game should allow us to create our own schedule because during lunch as the school grows we are getting cheated out of the smiles and the school percentage goes down way tooo fast when that happens!!! NOT ONLY THAT we should be allowed at least 2 janitors because the more classes put it in the more trash.
Since its the holidays Im broke and we cant pay to remove ads which would fantastic right now because every time we try to watch an ad for money, gems or X2 we get the first video but after that it just keeps loadingblack screen and then a loading circle, we have close out the game and it starts the day over and Ive lost what we were doing and restarting the day stinks Im once that is fixed game will be great, or give us a treat and take away our ads Merry Christmas and happy new year.
We love this game it is so much fun.
OK so this game really really really good to the creators we just wanted to let you know you are doing a really really good job and we like this game and we think you guys should play it to. Have a good day or night.
We started today and Im already having fun its funny tell us for some reason theres not that much ads how do you think they will be.
We LOVE this game its so fun and we cant stop playing it! Great job on the game.
Please add an update to where we can change the school schedule because we feel bad for the students going to school from 6:55 am to 5:30 pm. Please make our wish come true. Thats the only thing we want. Please.
So we were casually playing and we got our cash from a vid and then we look and it took down 9k from our cash and then we got mad cause we were gonna by the art class and it we kept watch ing vids to get so make sure that u watch your cash but download this game its pretty fun and make the ads like where u can skip em but good game.
Theres no rain and no snow and why Dont they wash their hands.
We were really enjoying the game and maxed out everything except the premium items. Guess Ill never get any further without paying real money so guess that was a real waste of our time.
We really like the concept! Its very elaborate for an idle game and we have played a lot of them. Normally on the idle games we always buy the ad free experience. On here it cost $12.99 we believe which is like double most the other idle games we have played. The gems are not bad, but when you compare it to how much everything cost to build in a faster time, or to hire a good teacher, $10 or even $20 dollars worth of gems dont last long. Also the free money that pops up every so often pops up WAY less often than in the other games. The other games (which we have timed before) is like every 3 minutes. Here is definitely longer, and its always the same amount until the next day even if you upgrade stuff. The game is a cool concept, can be more entertaining than other idle game for sure. But we wish it wasnt so expensive. We know that you can technically play without paying anything but still.
Not a bad game on the surface but as you progress you find out where the catch is. Its in building classrooms. A build time of a couple hours isnt bad but there are some rooms that take 1 day to build. Also a very ad dependent game in order to have enough cash to progress. Ive been playing about a day now and Ive completed all of the classes in the first school and finally caved and paid the $12.99 to get rid of ads or we wouldnt be this far along or Id been watching tons of mind numbing ads.
Apple made our review a wall of text. Apologies! Pros: 1. Cool idea! We love simulators and think we need more of this specific topic of sims. 2. The prestige system is pretty fun. Theres a few minor issues that we think take away from it, specifically the maximum reputation mark to prestige, but it is ultimately a fun idea! 3. We like that the ads are voluntary and optional! You could actually get away with not utilizing ads if you wanted to. Theres many ways to get the special currency, for example. Theres a con side to this as well. Cons: 1. You have to watch the ads to get any short term benefit. Okay, maybe you dont HAVE to watch the ads, but theres nothing to do if you dont because its so hard to make money! Also 15 ads a day if you want free gems. Youre probably paying for a ad-free experience in ad revenue when you watch as many ads as you really need to play this game! Theyre constantly incentivizing you to watch ads, including using missions to make you feel as if you have to watch them. 2. Its not REALLY an idle game our biggest pet peeve is having to leave the game open to make any substantial amount of money. That frustrates us to no end and does not make us want to buy your idle perks as much as give you a bad review. We are content leaving the game open and walking away, but we hate the drain it places on the battery and the heat it brings to the phone. This is, frankly, the biggest reason for our three-star rating. 3. The missions are good at first, but dont progress with the game well in terms of rewards. Ive been playing the game for almost two weeks now (and somehow the 7 consecutive days mission isnt triggering correctly. It appears to be a glitch). Ive done enough tasks to receive the No other missions note. The rewards from mission completion dont make a lot of sense. We shouldnt be getting $250 cash from a mission that cost us way more to complete the second time around. We think the maximum reward so far has been $2k. Way, way less useful by the time you play the 2nd level. We dont expect the rewards to get better, but we hope they do. 4. The prestige requirements are just slightly annoying to us Considering its hard to receive a perfect score because students decide they hate the appearance of ANY trash in the halls! Lol, thats just silly and makes it more difficult than it needs to be. 5. Personal opinion: we dont like the way decorations work. Im simply biffed that we cant make each room EXACTLY the way we want it. With exactly the wall and flooring we want! Some rooms have certain decor and others dont. We cannot understand why this is! 6. The people are creepy! Another personal opinion. The happy, smiling, wide-mouthed faces kinda make the whole thing feel dystopian. Not to mention the long school day. Id probably lose our sanity in that environment too! Hope this review is helpful for anybody. We may have put too high an expectation trying to satisfy our simulator itch.
Its pretty fun watching your students walking around the school but it takes a really long time to get a second classroom even when you have more money then you need.
We played this game until prestige 3 on the first location. We bought the 70% and the 4hr idle income. We wish we didnt and we wish we listened to the previous reviews. This game is a bit boring. All youre doing is upgrading and waiting. Theres no other interaction, unlike other tycoon idle games. The 4hr idle time doesnt even give us the full 4 hours worth of income, so it wasnt even worth purchasing. We wish we could get our money back. Im intensely not impressed by this which is why we are writing a 2 star review. We didnt give it 1, because it is a decent time waster when youre bored and got nothing else to do, but its honestly not really worth playing. Super boring just waiting for money to flow in. Would be better if there were more interactions. Like maybe food fights, class tests, principal office visits with consequences.. Things that happen in high school should be some pretty cool and fun interactions.
This game is not an idle game. It is trash.
Worst game ever. Full of scams and bad stuff we hate it and we will delete it. YOU BETTER GET RID OF THIS GAME ON THE APP STORE.
We dont like this game at all. Every time we go into it the next day, our progress is deleted and we have to start all over in the game. We want our money back.
Dear creators, we are so glad that you have made this game because it is perfect it has upgrades, moods, decorations, it has everything, you creators even added days which is so creative it makes it like real life and even the teacher Ms. Miller makes it look real, we really like how you can also see the scores on the exams, that is very cool, another thing is that we like how you can buy different classes because then the students can gradually get knowledge and they will earn knowledge quicker and quicker, then you will earn lots of money quicker to upgrade more stuff to make the students moods happier, the whole game in our opinion is just fantastic overall, also we are not just giving five stars to let the creators see it, we are putting five stars because it is our genuine opinion on the game and so that we can give some appreciation to the creators, because 1. We love the game. 2. The ad was cool. We seen the ad and we decided to download the game and when we downloaded it we instantly loved the game, this is why we want to give appreciation to all the creators that pitched in on making this game and all the creators did a wonderful job because this is one of the best games that we have ever played. Thank You creators.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.19.0
- Size: 332.31 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Kolibri Games GmbH
Last updated: 15th September 2025 | Genre: Casual, Simulation | Developer: Kolibri Games GmbH