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A pixel-art life sim about surviving a PhD in the UK. Manage your time, write your thesis, go fishing, fall in love, and push your luck at the casino. Turn cruel reviewers, looming deadlines, and your viva into turn-based card battles. Build a deck from your research and see how far you get.

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About PhDing in the UK

PhDing in the UK is a pixel-art life sim about a Chinese student doing a doctorate in Britain: chasing thesis deadlines, meeting your supervisor, missing home, plus a card-battle system. Every argument, every viva, every group meeting is a boss fight you never signed up for.

Tuition paid, bags packed, and somewhere between Heathrow and a rented room in Sheffield you became a PhD student. Nobody warned you that surviving it would come down to card games.

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Manage your days, not just your thesis: Every waking hour counts. Write, read, cook, exercise, or just stare into space. The clock, and the deadline, will not stop for you
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There is a lot of day left after the writing: Fish an afternoon away by the park lake, roll a couple of dice at the casino, work a shift to afford a chair that will not wreck your back. None of it advances your thesis, and all of it decides what shape you walk into the next fight in
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Build a deck out of your own arguments: Learn different schools of skill cards from different supervisors, curate them within a strict capacity, and turn every academic crisis into a turn-based showdown
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Form real bonds, and maybe more than bonds: Labmates and friends with their own personalities and their own deep-talk arcs. Someone might "happen" to walk past your building with an umbrella on a rainy day. Who you open up to gets written into your ending
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See the world on a student budget: Travel between terms and to conferences, from Tokyo backstreets to Roman ruins
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Fully localized, ten languages: Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. Every line has its own version
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Multiple endings: Who you become by graduation depends on every small choice along the way

Equal parts cozy and chaotic, sincere and self-deprecating. This is what nobody tells you about doing a PhD abroad.

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