Night Bus

Night Bus

Skip · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$4.99Skip

On its price record

$3.84Fair

Length
0.6h 1.4h to 100%
Value
$8.32/hr
Reviews
87% of 275 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.84 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$8.32/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
Refunds8 of 259 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Night Bus is a thrilling public transit simulator that costs less than a bus ticket! It's your first night on the job: Pick up passengers, take their fares, enjoy the beautiful countryside, and please ignore That Which Has No Eyes.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 850 or similar, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

11 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, THRESHOLD ($9.99, scores 50) beats it on value, while it beats Welcome to Kowloon ($6.99, scores 41).

More about Night Bus

8 of the 259 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,627 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 23 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 8 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 231 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 89 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 0.6 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 2.3 times as long.

The drop-off

89% start to 19% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Lovely bus simulation, cracked on with me job, met some lovely people, saw a deer, saw a gremlin man, some weird shenanigans going on occasionally but all in all would work here again. A++
GRider54Recommendedafter 1.5hMay 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Night Bus scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2820800/night-bus
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 2, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperLiquid Static Studio
PublisherLiquid Static Studio
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements18