Bus Driver
Fair · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 2,423
- Critics
- 61 players 22 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.3h
- To 100%
- 8.5h 1.0x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 123 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.79 June 2017
- Sale every
- 31d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 85% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 123 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 85 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 ($9.99, scores 57).
More about Bus Driver
Critics scored it 61. Players sit 22 points higher at 83 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
2 of the 369 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,027 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I expected to play it with my mouse but I can't and also the game has only 2 cameras, these are my 2 main problems, for a 2007 game the driving is good and realistic, the graphics are decent, my 5$ were spent very well, overall it is a good game that I enjoy
2 more reviews
One of the first games I played, a classic, it might be a bit outdated for today for new players but this was too real back then when it released, we had it on school PCs downloaded for all to play.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!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Bus Driver 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/302080/bus-driverReviews 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 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.