Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 26, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 25.2h
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (2GB VRAM) / AMD Radeon R9 280 (2GB VRAM) or higher, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.
Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop offers the most comprehensive bus fleet in the history of the series with 30 officially licensed buses. Drive on two vastly different maps, alone or with friend. Play with extended management elements or just enjoy your time on the road.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.74. That was April 2026. Its cuts run 43 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 5 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Car Detailing Simulator ($15.99, scores 35) beats it on value, while it beats Lawn Mowing Simulator ($19.99, scores 25).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 36 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2022 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, 221 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 36 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 28 percent of the 573 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
60% 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
101 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 17:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop scores 26/100 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/976590/bus-simulator-21-next-stopReviews 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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