School is Hellish is a mod of Outlands‘ game ‘School is Hell’. You can play the original here at philome.la. The game is an interactive fiction game which should take you about 2 hours on a first playthrough. There are three endings, based on your character’s karma score at the end of the game. You play as an adult learner taking night classes at a boarding school that is invaded by demonic forces. Collect items and rescue characters to proceed through the school! Warning: the content can be quite dark, so pay attention to the content warnings in game.
You can grab the game here (v2.0.0, 660 kB):
https://mega.nz/file/Gs8jDYLA#0ikPYkcv20lIKkehJpR5zfq_9H0p7HVHosi-FZZ9VQ4
To play the game, simply run the .html file in a browser. You can also play the game on itch.io:
This update to School is Hellish has been prompted by therecent delisting of NSFW content on Itch.io (and the removal of some adult games from Steam). You can read about that in the Guardian here, for example, and if you feel inspired to take action against the payment processors and the lobby groups that want to see adult games censored or heavily restricted, you can take a look at this Reddit thread.
Anyway, the main purpose of this update is to reduce the risk of a complaint about this game to Itch.io. While all characters have always been 18+ (consistent with the upper end of the age range of US high school students), v.2.0.0 goes further: the player character is now an adult learner doing adult education classes at the school (which shares facilities with a boarding school), and language describing characters in terms of their age has been adjusted accordingly. I also made some quality-of-life improvements. There is no change to the gameplay or endings, so you’re not missing anything important if you’ve played previous versions of the game before. Thanks for reading.
Changelog v2.0.0
- Changed: Changes to the Start page and edits to the setting of the game, as a response to Itch.io delisting NSFW games. Characters are now adult learners at a night school that shares facilities with a boarding school.
- Changed: Updated social media links.
- Changed: Link macros changed to link-repeat macros so that external links don’t disappear when clicked.
- Changed: Added two more save slots for a total of five.
- Fixed: Typo in a variable name which prevented one of the possible math classroom student variant scenes from triggering.
- Fixed: Minor typo fixes.