Publish or Perish
Publish or Perish is a game that simulates working in academia. In order to keep your job, you must publish scientific work. Reviewers are here to get you and all you can do is try to survive. Can you publish enough papers to enjoy tenure? (Contains practical advice for academics)
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What are keyshops?About Publish or Perish
- Choose between eight weapons and nine academics, and test your scientific skills in the office, the lab or at a conference talk.
- Choose new weapons, boosts and other cards whenever your productivity metric increases.
The weapons, boosts and other cards that you will use in the game are inspired by real world practices at Universities all around the world. Some of these practices help science progress, whereas some are detrimental to it.
- Supports mouse and keyboard, and controller.
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Publish or Perish price history
Lowest tracked price: £0.84 (Jul 7, 2026) · current best: £1.69.
Publish or Perish reviews
91% positive reviews all-time.
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System requirements
Minimum
- OS: Windows 10 64bit
- Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction
- Memory: 1 GB RAM MB RAM
- Graphics: DX11, DX12 capable
- Storage: 600 MB available space
