The Bus
Short description
The Bus is the next generation of city bus driving simulation. Sell tickets and transport passengers with various buses on different lines across the German capital Berlin on a realistic scale of 1:1.
- Developer
- TML-Studios
- Publisher
- Aerosoft GmbH
- Release
- Thu, Mar 26, 2026
- Price
- $39.99
- Reviews
- 7,726
- Positive
- 74%
- Followers
- 37,463
- Owners (estimated)
- 200K – 500K
- Concurrent players
- 164
- Genres
- Simulation
- Features
- Full controller support, Includes level editor
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $33.26, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $39.99 launch price. That is 17% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
18 data points since Jul 27, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
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. 83 further data points reach back to Mar 1, 2021 — 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.
The dashed line marks Jul 28, 2026, when steamlense started measuring. Everything to its left was backfilled from public sources — monthly review counts from Steam, price changes from IsThereAnyDeal, monthly player averages from SteamCharts. Those are monthly figures, so the curve is coarser there — one point a month instead of one a day.
Lowest recorded price: $19.99 on Jun 24, 2021.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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8,724 | 80% | Wed, Jun 13, 2018 | $7.2m $7.2m – $10.1m |
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Shift 2 Unleashed | Slightly Mad Studios 3 titles | 5 | − Relaxing + Racing | n/a | 2,330 | 67% | Tue, Mar 29, 2011 | n/a |
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Euro Truck Simulator 2 | SCS Software 19 titles | 4 | − Multiplayer − Relaxing + Transportation + Open World | $19.99 | 763,125 | 97% | Fri, Oct 12, 2012 | $320m $244m – $320m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.