Bus Driver

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Bus Driver

Short description

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.

Developer
SCS Software
Publisher
SCS Software
Release
Tue, Jun 03, 2014
Price
$4.99
Reviews
1,971
Positive
84%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
200K – 500K
Concurrent players
4
Genres
Indie, Simulation
Features
Partial Controller Support, Remote Play Together
Tags
Simulation Automobile Sim Driving Indie Singleplayer Open World Casual Realistic Transportation
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$373ksomewhere between $166k and $2.1m · roughly 39K–500K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $4.21, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $4.99 launch price. That is 16% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

2 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$373k → ~$373k
Reviews 1,971 → 1,971
Positive reviews 84.0% → 84.0%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 380 further data points reach back to Jun 1, 2014 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $0.79 on Jun 22, 2017.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Bus Driver is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Simulation + Automobile Sim + Driving

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