Let's School (2023)

Let's School has introduced several impressive updates, making investment and growth the main focus of the current version. The addition of club and activity systems also brings a lot of new content to the game. However, playing Let's School on the Switch may not be as great an experience as on the PC, as the font appears too small on the screen.

Let's School is a moderately okay management sim, which will definitely help you wile away a few hours. A lack of humanity lets it down and makes what could have been a very personable experience into another cog in the machine, taking away any individuality and losing the benefit of having the setting in a school environment by treating school life as purely transactional.

I found Let’s School a bit of an anti-climax. While the premise was there with the management mechanics, it just didn’t get me excited. I apologize if I appear to have come across negatively however the fun just did not come across for me. Let’s School is too repetitive in its tasks and lacks social interactions which in turn affected my long-term engagement with the game. Whether this was my experience due to playing it on the Nintendo Switch, I do not know. For now, Let’s School scores the Thumb Culture Bronze Award.

Let's School is a business simulator dressed up as a school simulator, with a heavy focus on the business side of keeping a school operating and not much on the warm, fuzzy feeling that you might get from education and helping kids reach their goals. There are some visual bugs and some frustrating menu layouts to deal with in the Switch version of the game, but there is a deep, engaging – if a bit soulless – simulator here.

Let's School has some interesting ideas, but fails to execute them in a satisfying way and is particularly unwieldy on the Switch.