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City Bus Manager

PeDePe GbR · Aerosoft GmbH · 2024-06-25

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CasualSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 15, 2025 (PlayStation 5), May 15, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), May 15, 2025 (PlayStation 4), May 15, 2025 (Xbox One), Jun 25, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!

74
playing now
91%
positive of 2.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

74 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Build your own depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own home town or any famous city in the world. Recreate the official bus network or change it completely to your preference. Did you ever think your local bus schedule sucks? This is your chance to show that you can step it up. Connect all the Points of Interests and see your passenger numbers grow. Buy new buses and hire staff to make sure you can keep up with your schedule. Take care of your buses in the repair and washing stations to make sure they meet your customers' demands. Build a (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 74 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 284 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~36/week).
  • · Review velocity up 26% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 9,647 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 57k–128k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,842 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $16.49 at Fanatical (2023-09-18) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 13 of 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
31531520222026Week of 2022-11-01: 315 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

281662026-08-11 19:00 — 235 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 187 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 73 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 197 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 158 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 66 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 232 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 226 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 74 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 230 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 146 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 71 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 229 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 117 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 75 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 239 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 143 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 108 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 281 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 93 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 97 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 255 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 95 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 98 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 228 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 150 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 228 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 74 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$14.202022-11-102026-08-102022-11-10 — best price $26.692022-12-22 — best price $23.992023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-05-07 — best price $19.992023-05-26 — best price $26.882023-07-10 — best price $29.992023-07-21 — best price $23.992023-08-04 — best price $26.882023-10-27 — best price $29.992023-11-28 — best price $29.992023-12-29 — best price $26.882024-02-02 — best price $29.992024-02-26 — best price $29.992024-03-14 — best price $20.992024-03-19 — best price $20.992024-04-06 — best price $27.562024-04-29 — best price $22.772024-06-26 — best price $16.492024-07-09 — best price $22.042024-07-25 — best price $29.992024-08-05 — best price $19.492024-08-30 — best price $29.992024-10-14 — best price $29.992024-11-23 — best price $29.992024-12-03 — best price $29.992024-12-08 — best price $22.042025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-03-20 — best price $28.492025-05-04 — best price $29.992025-07-24 — best price $29.992025-09-17 — best price $29.092025-11-24 — best price $20.092026-01-31 — best price $17.992026-04-10 — best price $14.202026-06-25 — best price $17.992026-07-31 — best price $16.202026-08-10 — best price $22.77
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-28 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

59
achievements tracked
87.2%
earned "Kickoff"
23%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing4 DLC

14 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Bulgarian, Dutch, Czech…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,1571%59
PS5 (PlayStation)773%58
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)510%58
PS4 (PlayStation)20%58

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

LogicCasualEconomyForeignSandboxColorfulRelaxingStrategyCapitalismManagement

Census log

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

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