Bully: Scholarship Edition
Fair · Action · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 65% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.2465% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $1.03/hr
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 42,615
- Critics
- 72 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Action
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.24 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 14.5h
- To 100%
- 27.6h 1.9x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 87 on record
- Typical cut
- 65% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 December 2014
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 207 now
- Recent reviews
- 86% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
87 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DEAD RISING® ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Destroy All Humans! ($29.99, scores 56).
More about Bully: Scholarship Edition
The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 84 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
23 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 5,744 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
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
amazing and extremely nostalgic. easy to mod, which is good because mods are a bit necessary to be able to play it on pc (also you might want the easy consumo mod bc that minigame is a nightmare for 100% players) Most issues with the game are more because of how old it is than anything, but even then, the glitches and bugs are usually pretty entertaining. I've already completed it twice and I'm planning on a 3rd...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Bully! Where shall i even start... If it aint the best rockstar game out there, then i dont know what is. The entire game i was sucked into the story of a troublesum kid named Jimmy. The way how story unfolds makes me wanna erase my memmories to play that masrerpiece again.
Don't get me wrong, its a great game and the nostalgia still hits, but with crashes happening while trying to change resolution, the fact theres no point where the game autosaves and the game running on 30 fps, completly turned me off, lost the whole 1st chapter simply because the game had a sudden crash and i never saved due to being engrossed in the fun. i might revisit the game in the future but for now my...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Bully tells the story of mischievous 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl and navigate the social hierarchy in the worst school around.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 4.7 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Bully: Scholarship Edition scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/12200/bully-scholarship-editionReviews 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.