The Bus
Skip · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 19, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 64% over the last 30 days against 73% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1650 or Radeon RX 5500, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
Transport passengers in the city bus simulation The Bus along 1:1 scale routes in Berlin, passing landmarks like the Victory Column, Brandenburg Gate, and Alexanderplatz. In the Scania Citywide LF and other licensed buses, sell tickets, handle traffic, and get everyone to their destination safely.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $19.99, set in June 2021. 8 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 27 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Truck & Logistics Simulator ($9.99, scores 29) beats it on value, while it beats On The Road - The Truck Simulator ($11.99, scores 0).
Players rate it 73 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 64 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 42 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2025 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 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 174 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 8 of the 42 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 1,467 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
28% start to <1% rarestNo 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Bus scores 19/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/491540/the-busReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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