FC Education vs Pebblebrook

You run the centre. The classroom is the easy part. FC Education is a management sim about the business behind a tuition centre: payroll that clears whether or not the term went well, three reputations sitting on the top bar, and a fee tier you keep having to justify. RUN THE BUSINESS Set the fee and watch what it does to enrolment, then watch wages take it back at the end of every week. There is no bank to call and no investor waiting. Run past your overdraft limit and the centre closes. HIRE THE PEOPLE, THEN AFFORD THEM Every candidate is a card: the subjects they can teach, how many students they can hold, the wage you will be paying every week, and a crest for the calibre you are buying. Energy drains while they teach and morale moves with how the term is going, so the brilliant hire running on empty by week six is a different problem from the steady one who never excels. DECISIONS THAT COST SOMETHING Incidents arrive with their options laid out and the cash price on each, and the ones you cannot afford are marked before you reach for them. A parent complaint, a tutor at the end of their patience, a rival opening down the road. Answer one and the game names the exact trade in stars: which reputation you just bought, and which one paid for it. BUILD, THEN OUTGROW IT Lay out classrooms, a reception, a staff room, and fifteen facilities that set the grade of the room they stand in. Add a second floor when the ground one is full, and when the building itself becomes the limit, move the whole centre into a bigger one. NINE LEVELS, FROM ONE ROOM TO A NETWORK Each level sets goals you can read straight off the top bar. A room at home, a shoplot, two floors, an academy and an exam season, then a second centre left to a manager you promoted, a brand to build, teachers you train yourself, and a thousand students across every centre you run. PLAYS THE WAY A PHONE PLAYS Portrait, one thumb, and the clock stops whenever a menu is open. No energy meters, no timers running while the app is closed, no daily-login anything. Time passes only while you are playing.

You have inherited Pebblebrook, a small abandoned village by the river. Play as Miro, an otter who gathers berries, fishes the slow water, and fells patient trees to bring the village back one building at a time. There is nothing to rush. The village keeps working while the app is closed, and your harvest is waiting when you return. A village that grows slowly Forage Patch, Fishing Dock, Timber Grove, Tea House, Stone Mill — raise five places and your village level with them. Neighbours who move in one by one Hazel, a hedgehog who knows every ripe bush. Pip, a kingfisher with impossible patience. Five neighbours, each better at gathering one thing. While you were away The village works for up to eight hours without you. Come back and collect. Light and quiet No account, no sign-in. Plays without an internet connection. Your progress is stored only on your device. Available in eight languages. Free to play with ads. No in-app purchases.