Bus World
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews▼
- 72% of 2,121
- Genre rank
- Top 54% Strategy
Holding it back: Refunds, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12h
- Achievements
- 14
Price and sales
- Sales
- 41 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 8 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 44% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
52% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 41 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, My Summer Car ($14.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Alaskan Road Truckers ($21.99, scores 6).
More about Bus World
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 44 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 107 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 44 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 727 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Nov 18 and Dec 1, at about $3.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 73% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks. Its own discounts have started about 45 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 15 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
How did they even come up with this idea? It's a bus simulator set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. You literally drive Soviet-era buses through Pripyat!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A simple but fun game. Rather than just driving the bus from one stop to another it adds an element of adventure.
This is a simulator where you play as a bus driver in three different cities around the world. The concept is interesting, and the game world effectively captures the atmosphere of these locations-featuring modern settings in both the Iceland and Asia maps-but the highlight is the main storyline, which takes you back to Chernobyl on April 26, 1986. The sound and graphics are quite decent, especially considering the...
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About the game
Bus World is a game about passenger transportations in various conditions, starting from standard days of a bus driver and ending with rescuing people who suffered from disasters.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 950 or Radeon R9 280 (no support for onboard cards), 11 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bus World scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1193090/bus-worldReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.