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Step into the driver’s seat in Bus Bound, the latest title from the creators of Bus Simulator 21. Explore a vibrant city behind the wheel of officially licensed buses, and help transform it into a pedestrian-friendly paradise—one stop at a time.
Bus Bound is a driving, simulation and automobile sim game
developed by stillalive studios
and published by Saber Interactive Inc..
Released on April 30th 2026 is available only on Windows
in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish and Welsh.
It has received 369 reviews of which 278 were positive and 91 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: i5-10600k / Ryzen 5 3600x
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 1070 8gb VRAM / AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 8gb VRAM
- Storage: 46 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD required
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🚏 Bus Bound Review 🚌 I have played a lot of bus simulators over the years, and all of them have their cons and pros that I love and hate at the same time. Even though my playtime is only 4 hours, I just wanted to point out I also played the demo for a good 8+ hours. I’ve been keeping a close eye on this game for a while, being a fan of bus sims and all! Firstly, the graphics are beautiful. The city feels so alive, which I find is where a lot of bus sims lack. I love having an alive city, with more people walking around, you can even hear children shouting in the background. It’s nice as you drive around the city some buildings might have music playing loudly as you pass. When you go past a high school or pre-school, you hear children shouting, laughing and playing, which is just a lovely touch. Even going past sports grounds, you hear games being played, crowds cheering their teams, and whistles blowing. Just amazing! Weather in this game is really good. When it’s windy and you open your bus doors, you can actually feel the wind, the camera shakes and wobbles, making it feel realistic, as if you’re there. The rain is the same really good, with realistic raindrops on the glass. A bonus is that when you drive in third person, you still get rain on the screen and the window wiper effect, which I really love. The bus line system seems really easy and simple. It’s very easy to make your own lines, add bus stops or remove them. Levelling up bus stops feels more rewarding than in other games. It comes with a lot of rewards, but also city upgrades. You can unlock things such as new bus stops, new buses, paints and skins, but also bonus city features like bus-only lanes or shortcuts. I love that touch it’s like the city sees the effort of the bus driver (you) and helps by upgrading itself. I love all the buses they’ve added. I’ve yet to unlock them all, but so far the sound effects are really nice. I also love the bus stop chimes each bus has. You can customise your bus too not something new in bus sims, but it feels like there are more customisation options Bus Bound. They introduced something I’ve not seen before, the indicator camera that pops up. I actually love it. If you’re not a fan, you can turn it off. I don’t have head tracking, and it makes looking side to side much easier without needing to move the camera as much. Keeping your passengers happy is also in the game,driving slowly over bumps, stopping fully at stop signs, and following road laws is rewarding. You can also add bonus “quests” for extra rewards and thumbs up, like driving a full route staying in cockpit view or not crashing once, etc. It adds to the fun. Of course, the game does have some issues. I’ve had a bit of stuttering. Also, I was driving fast in a low bus going up a hill, and the bottom of my bus clipped and sent it flying into the air lol. As funny as it was, it was also annoying as I got angry passengers and thumbs down. It doesn’t happen often, only twice so far and I’ve just learned to slow down on inclines. The AI can sometimes be a bit annoying, but again, it’s rare just things like cars randomly stopping. I even had a car disappear in front of me once. My last concern is that the game crashed once. Might be a one-off, but crashes always worry me. All in all, an amazing game. It’s a bus simulator and does it really well. Very relaxing and calming. This bus sim is also more “arcade” you don’t have to deal with things like tickets or giving change. I personally like that, as I’m a bit lazy and just enjoy driving along, but some people might prefer the full realism of being a bus driver, so just be aware that’s not in the game. Drive safe! 🚍 Tip: If you want to find more reviews like this, check out our curator page [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41527689/]Moon's Tea House
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Saw many people complaining about the lack of economy system. Well lads, let's put it straight, even though "simulation" is a part of the game, yet, it's not bus "simulator", and with that being said, it's not a must to have an economy system. Let's take an example, "Bus World" doesn't actually have a real economy system, you do get money and buy busses, but it's not about that, it's about saving people in dangerous situations. This game has the same idea, it just looks at the bus from a different perspective, instead of growing your company, you're growing your city, and that's the aim of the game, drive a bus, thrive a city, and watch the beauty of what your hard work has done, If you're too much into simulation and growing a company, there are tons of other games, for example, "The Bus" that shows a 1:1 scale of Berlin, "Touristic Bus Simulator", same idea but different place, "Fernbus" doesn't have an economy system, it has tons of licensed busses, Flixbus paints, but you still have no economy system, even football clubs DLC is about transporting your team to matches, and many others. This game just looks at bus driving from a different angle, and that's it. There are some minor bugs though but it's expected, it hasn't been released for full 24 hours, none of these bugs kills the game. If you enjoy bus driving with a different approach, this game is for you. If you're looking for a game when you start a small company and then turn it into a transport empire, save your time and money and buy and play another game. BUT, what I'd like to see in the future is a refueling and recharging system, that would make a great add to the game, even though the devs are known to hate this system, but let's keep fingers crossed.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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Ladies and gentlemen, we got it. This is the first bus simulator in the history of the bus simulators that runs butter smooth. It have great choice of buses and the city is piece of art, not to mention effects, graphics, traffic and everything else. I love the architecture and I love the city layout. I love everything about this game. This is a definitive gem of a bus simulators and homage to the genre. 100/10.
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Honestly went into this thinking it would be background noise for this lasy weekend since apparently its going to rain for the most part. My boys (8 and 10) had seen the trailer somewhere and would not let it go, so I bought it mostly to end the campaign rather than because I had real expectations. Thirty bucks felt like a low risk way to get an afternoon of "okay sure, let's drive a bus." We had a 2 hours run and the keyboard has changed hands more times than I can count. Something about the rhythm of it just works. You pull into a stop, the doors hiss open, people shuffle on, you wait. Then you pull out, mind the indicator, watch the lights, ease into the next stop. Sounds boring written out. It isn't. It's some sort of delightful routine that can go on for some time without getting bored. The boys started arguing over who gets the next pickup, so we made up a rule on the spot: drive three stations, then hand it over. That turned the whole thing into something weirdly cooperative. The older one started coaching the younger one on signaling earlier. I started coaching both of them on not stomping the brake when there's an old lady standing. Which became the running joke of the afternoon. We figured out pretty fast that if you take a speed bump too aggressively, the passengers actually react to it. So, naturally, they wanted to do it on purpose. We took turns being the responsible driver and the chaos driver. It's silly. It's also exactly the kind of low stakes nonsense that keeps an 2 young boys locked in on a rainy day. What got me, and I didn't see this coming, is how much the game doubles as a teaching moment without me forcing it. Stop too far from the curb, people grumble. Skip a station, your rating drops. The kids picked up cause and effect almost immediately, and somewhere along the way we ended up having a genuine conversation about why you don't stand right at the door, why you let elderly passengers sit before pulling out, why you say thank you to the driver when you step off. Just absorbed through play. Which in real life they would ignore no matter how many times I'll repeat it. The bigger compliment I can give the team is on the pricing. Thirty USD for a polished sim is more than fair, and a bit surprising honestly when comparable simulator titles routinely sit at fifty plus. Whoever made that call at stillalive and Saber, you're the MVP, ladies and gents. Early impressions only, sure. But these first 2-3 hours alone worth the money in my personal opinion. Which is subjective, of course, as it probably wouldn't been the same without my 2 kids. On a criticism note: Passenger reactions could use more variety. Traffic AI gets a bit predictable once you learn the patterns. But other than that, the game ran smooth for me and I had a blast. Still discovering new things and exploring on every new trip. If you're a parent looking for something properly chill that you can hand off to your kid for a while without worrying about content, this is the one. Hoping the team stays with it and keeps building. We're going back at it tomorrow morning again.
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Bus Bound is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
Bus Bound is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
Bus Bound received 278 positive votes out of a total of 369 achieving a rating of 7.11.
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Bus Bound was developed by stillalive studios and published by Saber Interactive Inc..
Bus Bound is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Bus Bound is not playable on MacOS.
Bus Bound is not playable on Linux.
Bus Bound offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Bus Bound includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
There is a DLC available for Bus Bound. Explore additional content available for Bus Bound on Steam.
Bus Bound does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Bus Bound does not support Steam Remote Play.
Bus Bound is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Bus Bound.
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Developer
stillalive studios
Publisher
Saber Interactive Inc.
Release
30 Apr 2026
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