Any UK routes, ideally London. Even if DLC?

[Sminky]

How much of a sim is it? As i'm mostly buying it for my 2 year old that loves busses.

Thanks

[hadi2games]

Just wait till 7th september on the bus sim 21 release, you will get more out of you're money. But as for the cheap price, I bought it when it came out 2 years ago and have around 400 hours of play time. This game still has many bugs, bad physics. So it depends on what you are looking for. If it doesn't matter, get this game in the sale, you won't regret especially for the price. But you want, double deckers, more map, more routes, more features, more busses in general, then get Bus sim 21. Hope this helps ;-)

[patrickov]

Frankly I am a bit torn between this company's approach of releasing a brand new game every 2 or 3 years (and then effectively abandoning the older ones) and the approach of Dovetail, i.e. getting unlimited number of DLCs but with a minimal base game.

If this company could design the game to be sufficiently flexible like ETS 2 then it would be easy for them to leave other bus simulation games in the dust, because I am yet to see another game which blends bus driving and bus route planning.

[hadi2games]

Exactly! They should have continued with 18 until they can't anymore or just give us a American looking map as DLC, but instead, they went this way.

[patrickov]

To be fair, before ETS 2 was released SCS was no different from StillAlive / astrogon -- a new game every year or two, a trait it had maintained for some 10 years. So if BS21 or any other later title achieves the flexibility and playability of ETS 2 one shouldn't dismiss the possibility of StillAlive / astrogon switching to sustainable development like SCS.

I would very much like this franchise succeed more than other bus simulation titles, mainly because this game put more consideration in bus routing and the balance between arcade and realistic simulations. (OMSI 2 is too realistic to the point of tedious)