Tourist Bus Simulator

Tourist Bus Simulator

Skip · Strategy · 2018

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 13, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
2.1h
Value
$7.14/hr
Reviews
66% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
2.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
2.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$7.14
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
66%
3,503 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or similar AMD Radeon (no support for onboard cards), 25 GB of storage. Windows only.

Create your own bus empire on Fuerteventura now! Thanks to the economy system in the new Tourist Bus Simulator, you will be able to found your own bus company on the popular holiday island Fuerteventura.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Value$7.14/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews66% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
Refunds45 of 800 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
Length2.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 8 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Bus ($39.99, scores 19) beats it on value, while it beats On The Road - The Truck Simulator ($11.99, scores 0).

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 45 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 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, 95 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 8 of the 45 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 436 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

93% start to 51% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 18:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Why Why Why SO MANY negative reviews? This is the best bus sim ever. I was delayed buying it because of the bad reviews but so glad I did. Lots of corners and hills. A well designed business model. Employees, additional things like shopping for supplies, repairs, spare parts and breakdowns. Lots of graphic adjustments. (so many people say the graphics are stuttering or causing crashing). Yes its got some serious...
Keysersoze386Recommendedafter 17hApr 2026Read on Steam
So after Playing the Game I have Change my mind, This my Tips for Low PC setting you Can drive the bus and Car but just Hit the backspace to reset your bus So you dont active the Rev cam which Cause to Crash or Frozen up where you have to pen the game again this my play time - 27.6 hrs last two weeks / 27.6 hrs on record maybe the game be Update to diable rev cam
Tanker7892Recommendedafter 28hJan 2026Read on Steam
Really buggy, needs a lot of work, but the dev team have moved on. A pity really, it was a fun game.
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 163hMar 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Tourist Bus Simulator scores 13/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/953580/tourist-bus-simulator
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Reviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperTML-Studios
PublisherAerosoft GmbH
GenreStrategy
Released2018
Achievements6