Krafton's hyper-realistic life sim just landed one of its most-requested features. inZOI Update 0.9.0 rolled out on June 19, 2026 for PC and Mac via Steam Early Access, and its headline addition is active high school gameplay — the kind of full life-stage simulation that fans have been asking for since the game's surprise launch.
Teenager Zois can now enroll and attend a shared high school, with school properties added across the Dowon, Bliss Bay and Cahaya cities. Students progress through classes, join clubs, sit exams, attend prom and eventually graduate into young adulthood — turning what was previously a narrative gap into a playable chapter of a Zoi's life.
More than just school
Clubs cover everything from cooking and fitness to cheerleading and programming, giving teens a reason to build skills and relationships outside the classroom. But v0.9.0 reaches well beyond campus life. The patch adds clothing stores as a new business type, an expanded baby and family system, and dozens of fresh Create-a-Zoi items for the game's already deep character creator.
Two experimental systems are also along for the ride: a first-person view mode and an advanced driving mode with more detailed car physics and controls. Krafton has flagged both as works in progress, inviting players to test them and report back — a fitting approach for a title still wearing its Early Access badge.
Steady momentum in Early Access
Rounding out the update are quality-of-life improvements to relationships, family systems, building tools and mod support — the connective tissue that keeps a sandbox like inZOI feeling cohesive as it grows. A hotfix followed shortly after launch to clean up a handful of smaller issues.
With high school now in, inZOI fills one of the most conspicuous holes in its life-stage roadmap, and tightens its pitch as the most graphically ambitious challenger the life-sim genre has seen in years.
