The best games you played as a teacher

Summary

• Teachers are playable characters in games like Campus with two pointswhere players make decisions that affect both students and teachers.

• Characters like Raine from The stories of the Symphony use their status as teachers to inform their abilities, focusing on healing and supporting magic.

• Games like Octopath Traveler features characters like Cyrus, a professor at the Royal Academy, balancing ethical obligations with formidable attacks.

Teachers they are often a nurturing archetype in a larger story. They are mentors and guides along the hero's journey. They often have the knowledge or wisdom the player needs, or they might be an obstacle to a goal and the player must prove themselves in order to continue. Then, on some rare occasions, players get to play as a teacher.

As this list demonstrates, often the teacher is a playable character, but also part of an ensemble of characters. However, in each case, their status as a teacher informs their abilities and gameplay to some extent. Here are some of the the best games that let you play as a teacher.

Honorable Mention: Campus Manager at Two Point Campus

Watch out for the Flesh Wizard

There is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes at a university and it would be remiss to leave out the chaotic campus simulator that is Campus with two points. The player must make crucial decisions that affect the education and well-being of students and teachers alike. Players can intervene in student learning, participate in classes, and determine the curriculum.

That The hospital in two pointsthe results can be absolutely disastrous and hilariously ridiculous. Knight School, for example, is a course that teaches medieval combat, and Egg Hunting is a challenge-mode course that appears to consist of “egg digging” in the “Rabbit Hole.” However, there isn't much “character” to the player character here, teacher or not, and Campus with two points it's much more of a management sim than a teaching sim.

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Raine Rage from Tales Of Symphonia

Wielding the heart of chaos

Rain is a young half-elf teacher and a player character in The stories of the Symphony. He is an optional but extremely useful member of the team. She taught in Iselia before going on a mission to save the game, and players get a glimpse into her classroom and her dynamic with the students.

Like many of the teachers on this list, who exist in fantasy worlds with class battles or unique abilities, Raine is primarily a defensive and support magic character. As an intelligent character, his niche talents are skills that involve high levels of knowledge. She is a healer and provides important buffs and ailments to other team members.

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Shibito Magire from Spirit Hunter: Death Mark 2

Shibito's shadow portends death

Shibito Magire it doesn't start Spirit Hunter: Death Mark 2 as a teacher, but rather goes undercover as a teacher to solve a series of disappearances and murders at a boarding school. While players only see glimpses of his classroom activities, his relationships with students are a major focus of the game.

He must navigate the ethical obligations of his new role as he tries to get close to the students and get information from them. This becomes more and more difficult and complex as the story goes on. To expand on this further would be to give away major plot points, but this game is one for fans of Japanese supernatural horror.

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Byleth Eisner from Fire Emblem: Three Houses

“Let the lesson begin”

Byleth is a mercenary and protagonist of Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Players can choose whether to play them as male or female. Archbishop Rhea recruits Byleth to become a teacher at the Officers Academy after he saves students from bandits.

As a stat-heavy game series, characters' occupations and histories inform their skill sets and what they can offer in battle, and Byleth's teaching skills are part of his students' fighting style. His personal ability is Teacher's Guidance, which provides a 1.2x experience gain bonus for Byleth and adjacent allies.

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Cyrus Albright from Octopath Traveler

“You should have studied more”

Octopath Traveler is a beloved JRPG that weaves together the stories of eight different characters. One of those characters is Cyruswho is a professor at the Royal Academy of Atlasdam. He is an Academic class character and his special talent is Study Foe. Like Raine, he has physical damage, but as an enthusiastic scholar of magic, he relies on formidable elemental attacks and his resistance to magical damage.

As in many of the games where the player is a teacher, Cyrus must navigate his ethical and moral obligations to his students, complicated by Therese's advances. Fortunately for Cyrus, he is blissfully unaware of her feelings.

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Professor Hershel Layton From the Professor Layton series

I don't need another name

There must be something about archeology teachers that gets them into all sorts of trouble. Professor Layton he's a professor of archeology at Gressenheller University in London, and he's always on a high-stakes adventure, just like another very famous archeology professor. He is drawn to the mystery and adventure in each game, largely due to his renowned puzzle-solving skills.

The classic series of puzzle adventure games Professor Layton sees the eponymous professor serving as a Sherlock Holmes-style consulting expert for Scotland Yard. Luke Triton's mentoring and his exceptional knowledge of history and antiquities are the main ways players engage in his profession.