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Bus Driver

SCS Software · 2014-06-03

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 27, 2014 (iOS), Mar 22, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 08, 2011 (Mac)

In Bus Driver, your job is to transport passengers around an attractive and realistic city. You must drive to a timetable on a planned route, whilst obeying traffic rules, and taking care not to upset or injure your passengers.

6
playing now
83%
positive of 2.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
58/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Bus Driver is a bus driving simulator game developed by SCS Software. The game was released digitally, for Microsoft Windows on 22 March 2007, and for OS X on 8 June 2011. A port to iOS, entitled Bus Driver – Pocket Edition, was released to the App Store by Meridian4 on 27 February 2014.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 104 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 60k–145k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,411 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$0.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2017-06-22) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.98 · on sale 24 of 29 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
303020182026Week of 2018-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1212026-08-06 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 8 players2026-08-29 11:00 — 10 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.792015-01-012026-08-252015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-09-28 — best price $9.992016-07-04 — best price $2.492017-02-28 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $0.792018-08-02 — best price $9.992018-12-19 — best price $1.992019-03-25 — best price $7.992019-11-10 — best price $1.592020-03-30 — best price $1.592020-06-15 — best price $7.992020-07-29 — best price $7.992020-08-24 — best price $7.992020-09-18 — best price $7.992020-10-18 — best price $7.992020-11-12 — best price $7.992020-12-08 — best price $5.872021-01-16 — best price $5.732021-02-16 — best price $7.192021-03-12 — best price $7.992021-04-09 — best price $5.732021-05-04 — best price $7.192021-06-03 — best price $5.732021-07-19 — best price $7.992021-09-23 — best price $5.872021-11-15 — best price $1.592022-01-18 — best price $5.872022-05-10 — best price $7.192022-06-24 — best price $5.872022-09-06 — best price $5.872022-10-18 — best price $7.192022-12-09 — best price $5.872023-02-14 — best price $5.872023-05-11 — best price $5.872023-10-20 — best price $7.192024-04-08 — best price $0.992024-12-19 — best price $0.992025-08-25 — best price $0.992026-04-25 — best price $5.872026-08-25 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5862026-05-30 — 13 pageviews2026-06-02 — 14 pageviews2026-06-05 — 10 pageviews2026-06-08 — 22 pageviews2026-06-11 — 16 pageviews2026-06-14 — 10 pageviews2026-06-17 — 19 pageviews2026-06-20 — 9 pageviews2026-06-23 — 6 pageviews2026-06-26 — 13 pageviews2026-06-29 — 12 pageviews2026-07-02 — 21 pageviews2026-07-05 — 56 pageviews2026-07-08 — 20 pageviews2026-07-11 — 19 pageviews2026-07-14 — 31 pageviews2026-07-17 — 31 pageviews2026-07-20 — 16 pageviews2026-07-23 — 15 pageviews2026-07-26 — 24 pageviews2026-07-29 — 17 pageviews2026-08-01 — 10 pageviews2026-08-04 — 12 pageviews2026-08-07 — 12 pageviews2026-08-10 — 40 pageviews2026-08-13 — 20 pageviews2026-08-16 — 31 pageviews2026-08-19 — 15 pageviews2026-08-22 — 25 pageviews2026-08-25 — 28 pageviews2026-08-27 — 15 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch

Player tags

IndieCasualDrivingRealisticOpen WorldSimulationSingleplayerAutomobile SimTransportation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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