Bully: Scholarship Edition
Fair · Action · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 14.5h
- Value
- $1.03/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 4.7 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in December 2014. 85 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Saints Row IV: Re-Elected ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats DEAD RISING® ($9.99, scores 57).
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.
Players
221 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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...
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...
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Bully: Scholarship Edition scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/12200/bully-scholarship-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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