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DeveloperYarn Games
PublisherYarn Games
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College Crisis is a darkly comedic, turn based survival sim about surviving college inside a broken system. Progress week by week managing money, energy, sanity, dormmates, and scholarships that vanish without warning as subtle cosmic anomalies creep into campus life.
Screenshots and footage shown represent an in-development version of the game.
College Crisis: The Tuition Survival GameCollege is supposed to be the best years of your life.
Instead, it’s a carefully balanced struggle between money, sanity, energy, and the looming threat of the bursar’s office.
College Crisis: The Tuition Survival Game is a darkly comedic life-management sim where you try to survive college without losing your mind, your scholarship, or your soul. Every week, you juggle classes, jobs, dormmates, paperwork, and bad decisions, all while the system itself seems actively hostile to your existence.
Tuition rises. Aid disappears. Your roommate hasn’t paid utilities in months.
And somehow, you’re still expected to show up to class.
What Kind of Game Is This?College Crisis is a turn-based, week-by-week survival sim built around choice, consequence, and satire.
You make decisions about how to spend your limited time and energy each week. Studying, working, socializing, applying for scholarships, or just trying not to burn out.
Behind the scenes, hidden pressures build. Stress accumulates. Small mistakes spiral.
Sometimes the system breaks you.
Sometimes you break the system back.
Key FeaturesSurvive a Broken System
Manage money, energy, and sanity across a full academic timeline where tuition, fees, and bureaucracy never stop coming.
Dormmates
Live with unforgettable dormmates, each with their own quirks, traits, and chaos. Some help. Some hurt. Some may not be entirely human.
Scholarships That Dangle Just Out of Reach
Apply for dozens of absurd, frustrating, and painfully realistic scholarships. Many of which vanish at the worst possible moment.
Hundreds of Quirks
Your quirks aren’t selected, they’re inflicted. Assigned at character creation and imposed by mysterious events, they reflect how college changes you, whether you want it to or not.
Campus Feed: Real Student Horror Stories
Read real, anonymously submitted college horror stories integrated directly into the game, because sometimes reality is worse than fiction.
Subtle Cosmic Weirdness
As pressure builds, cracks begin to show. Not everything on campus behaves the way it should.
Dark Humor, Not a Power Fantasy
You won’t “win” college, you’ll survive it. Or at least try.
Who Is This For?Students and former students
Anyone buried under student loans
Fans of dark comedy and satire
Players who enjoy choice-driven sims
Anyone who has ever said, “There has to be a better way than this.”
College Crisis: The Tuition Survival GameA game about education, debt, bureaucracy, and the quiet horror of being told this is normal.
Wishlist now.
Your tuition probably just went up.
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