How long is Agefield High: Rock the School?

Refugium Games says 8–10 hours for the main story — 32 main missions plus 15 side missions and activities. Completionist timing is unknown until launch.

Does Agefield High have multiplayer or co-op?

No. The Steam page is explicit: it's a single-player experience from beginning to end. Every student is on their own.

Should I replay it for both endings?

There are two confirmed endings tied to the story's choices, including one at prom. Whether a save before the branch covers both is unknown — we'll test and update at launch.

Does Agefield High support controllers?

Yes — full controller support is listed on Steam, along with Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud saves and Family Sharing.

Agefield High Beginner Guide — Know This Before First Bell

Class starts today — the Steam unlock is at 4:00 PM UTC — and this is your orientation packet. Everything below is confirmed from Refugium Games’ own material, so you can hit the ground scheming the moment it downloads. No leaks, no guessed mechanics; where we’re inferring, we say so. Mission-by-mission walkthroughs follow once we’ve actually played it — we won’t publish a route we haven’t walked.

The daily loop (confirmed)

Weekday mornings belong to school. The time system puts you in class until the afternoon. Five subjects exist: English, Math, Geography, German and Music.
Grades pay. Good marks earn pocket money — the honest income stream.
Skipping is a build. Cut class and the afternoon opens up for side missions and hustles (press coverage shows lawn mowing and prank calls) — but teachers, and eventually cops, are real threats if you get sloppy.
Spend it downtown. Shops sell clothes, hairstyles, tattoos, accessories, bikes and, this being 2002, dirty magazines.
Advance the plan. 32 main missions carry the Rock the School scheme to prom, where an important choice feeds one of two endings.

Day-one checklist

Do this	Why
Check your rig against the minimum specs	GTX 1070-class GPU, 16 GB RAM, 15 GB disk, Windows only
Know the price before you click	$26.99 now ($29.99 list, 10% launch discount) — see price
Decide controller vs. mouse	Full controller support confirmed
Budget an 8–10 hour story	Two sittings if you inhale it; a school week if you savor
Expect indie, not Rockstar	The devs themselves say small handcrafted world, simple combat
Plan a pre-prom manual save	Two endings exist; branch behavior unverified (our guess, flagged as such)
Check reviews before you commit	They started at zero today — see the note below

Calibrate expectations like a senior

Three honest notes. First, Refugium Games’ own store page is refreshingly blunt about scope — straightforward combat, no deep RPG systems, a story you can finish in a long weekend. Take the game on those terms.

Second, July 2026 press previews were rough on polish — animation jank and flat mission moments came up repeatedly. Indie launch builds can improve fast, but that’s the known risk going in.

Third, and most usefully today: there were no user reviews at all before unlock, so there is no crowd verdict yet. If you’re on the fence, the strongest move is to let a few hours of real player reviews accumulate — the launch-week discount doesn’t expire for about seven days, so patience costs you roughly nothing. Our roadmap page tracks how launch day actually shakes out.

Prep the lore side with characters and the band plan, then keep the FAQ in your back pocket.

Before your first session

Two things to do before you start playing, both of which save grief later.

Check it runs. This game’s problems are strongly machine-dependent — some players run it for hours cleanly, others can’t load in. Launch it the day you buy it, play the opening properly, save and reload. If it’s going to break on your setup, you want to know while the refund window is still open.

Calibrate your expectations. The reviews are Mostly Negative and the complaints are about polish, not premise. Going in knowing that voice acting and cutscene animation are rough makes them a known quantity rather than a nasty surprise. Bully fans specifically should read the comparison first.

The structure you’re playing


Main missions	32, carrying the story to prom
Endings	Two, decided by a choice at the prom
Length	8–10 hours
School subjects	Five class types, including music and German
Achievements	11

This is an authored mission game, not an open-world sandbox. The map serves the missions rather than the other way round — which is the structural difference that disappointed a lot of Bully fans, and it’s worth knowing going in rather than discovering at hour three.

The one save you should make

Save before the prom decision, if the game offers manual saves.

Two endings, 11 achievements, and one branching choice. That save turns “replay 32 missions to see the other ending” into “reload and pick differently.” Five minutes of foresight against several hours. More on saves, and the two routes compared in the Ashley vs Chloe endings guide.

Ready to go deeper? The community-reported all 32 main missions walkthrough has act-by-act tips for the whole campaign.

Music class is played, not watched

Worth knowing because it was unclear until launch: the August 13 patch made “the music minigames easier to pass” — the studio’s own words, which confirms two things. Music minigames exist and are played, and they had enough teeth to need tuning within 24 hours.

If you’re here for the band fantasy, that’s the good news. Don’t expect Guitar Hero depth — see the band page for what’s confirmed.

If something breaks

Crashes, stutter and NPCs clipping through walls are the most-reported problems. Our crashes and performance page collects what players report actually helps — starting with the fact that an SSD is a listed requirement, not a suggestion, which is the cheapest thing to rule out.

The studio has been responsive: the first patch shipped one day after launch, and the review score has climbed from 30.5% to around 35% since. Roadmap tracks what’s next.