Bus Driver
Fair · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.3h
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, OpenGL 1.3 compatible 64MB AGP with hardware T&L, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
In Bus Driver, your job is to transport passengers around an attractive and realistic city. You must drive to a timetable on a planned route, whilst obeying traffic rules, and taking care not to upset or injure your passengers.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.79. That was June 2017. It has been discounted 122 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Euro Truck Simulator ($4.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Scania Truck Driving Simulator ($9.99, scores 46).
Critics scored it 61. Players sit 22 points higher at 83 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
2 of the 368 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,020 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.
Players
4 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
One of the first games I played, a classic, it might be a bit outdated for today for new players but this was too real back then when it released, we had it on school PCs downloaded for all to play. It has a bit of challenge, the only issue with it was no first person camera at the front, which is weird considering 18 Wheels of Steel (the truck games released around same time) had one. Regardless it's a great game...
A very close to realism vehicle sim, albeit buses only. Bus Driver offers AAA driving experience with a AA price tag made for vehicle sim enthusiasts!
Good. Each route offers a nice balance of challenge and relaxation. It's easy to settle in for just one more trip.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Bus Driver 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/302080/bus-driverThe 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 Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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