Bus Simulator 18
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.32/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 13,720
- Critics
- 67 players 14 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 47.2h
- To 100%
- 107.1h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 28
Price and sales
- Sales
- 52 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 April 2026
- Sale every
- 57d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 25 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 81% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
68% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 52 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 8 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Farming Simulator 17 ($14.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Bus Simulator 16 ($9.99, scores 33).
More about Bus Simulator 18
The press gave it 67; the people who bought it give it 81 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 31 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to November 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 331 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 973 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
47.2 hours to finish it, 107 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 14 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
Bus Sim 18 is a game where you expand your bus empire to slowly cover the whole map. You are given a lot of missions that you can spend a lot of time on. I've had a lot of fun on the game and recently completed it. There is a good choice of busses to choose from and they are detailed very well. The positives: Good choice of busses. Great map design, all the places seem to have life. Great detail on both the map and...
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About the game
Experience the job of a bus driver in a vast and freely drivable urban area. Drive original licensed city buses from the great brands: Mercedes-Benz, Setra, MAN, and IVECO BUS. Transport your passengers safely and punctually, either solo in single player mode, or in multiplayer mode.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 (1GB VRAM) or AMD Radeon R7 360 (2GB VRAM) or higher, 6.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Bus Simulator 18 scores 61/100 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/515180/bus-simulator-18Reviews 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 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.