High School Story vs Surviving High School
High School Story
High School Story is a fun and pretty unique simulation game where you'll not only get to meet a host of interesting high schoolers, from the nerds to the jocks to the preppies; you'll also get to build a high school of your own! Recruit classmates, customize them to your liking, build hangouts for them and even link these characters with your real life friends through Facebook. Enjoy the game's myriad of mini-storylines that mostly cover the struggles that high schoolers go through, though there are some general life lessons in there as well. You can even throw parties to attract new "hybrid-clique" students or date any of the other students at your high school.High School Story lives up to its name by offering players the opportunity to reveal new stories by completing quests or buying new special classmates - or All-stars - that comes with their respectively unique background stories. The game is honestly as compelling as its stories and if you love a good tale or two or if you're a fan of games like Suburbia, this is the game you'll want to play.
Surviving High School
Surviving High School is a visual novel game by EA Games developed with only one intention in mind - to let you create your very own high school drama at Centerscore High through your interactions with the game's many intriguing characters including some cliche ones like the jock and the cheerleader. The different storylines you can uncover through the dialogue options you chose allows for multiple replays as you try to find all the endings in the game. There are also tons of fun mini-games for you to enjoy. The game is also quite similar to games like Episode or Choices in the respect that the story in this game is released on an per-episode basis.Unfortunately, Surviving High School is nolonger around - the game has been shuttered since 2014. However, if you're interested to play something similar, you might enjoy Episode, Choices or any of the games listed below.