Bus Simulator 18
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 47.2h
- Value
- $0.32/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 50 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 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).
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; 30 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 587 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 954 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.
The drop-off
68% 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
Players
45 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
The Driving mechanic is really cool. It teaches you how to drive. Really love this game, it was worth the money
Game keeps crashing. Cannot play the game itself. No use buying this game. Tried updating drivers, re-installing game and evertyhing for 2 days, still cant play the game as it keeps crashing everytime.
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.
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Bus Simulator 18 scores 61/100 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/515180/bus-simulator-18The 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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