Recent reviews by Alber

Recommended.

Great casual waste of time.

Slava Ukraine.

It's free and it's great.

Great DLC. I only miss more secondary roads. This DLC with secondary roads would be 10/10. This way it's 8.5/10.

It's still great and I recommend it. It's huge, a lot of different places and I'm Spanish I can say it really feels like traveling through Spain, it feels like home.

I got banned from the Community Hub by a developer mod for this comment about the publisher of this game:

"I'd say Aerosoft is the worst publisher I know in Steam.

Expensive games and with very basic content, with not much to choose from, and then they release expensive DLCs with just one bus, or things like that. And you can forget about sales as well. Not to mention that they publish games when they're obvously incomplete and full of bugs."

I was answering someone who talked about Aerosoft before and that was my one and only comment, so there's no spam, nothing else behind. The next day I opened Steam and I was banned from the Community Hub of this game.


That's reason enough for me to ask for a refund. But I'll elaborate my opinion about the game and about what you can expect:

I own Fernbus and Tourist Bus Simulator, with most of the DLC's. Same developer and same publisher. Tourist Bus Simulator is basically Fernbus, but with a few tweaks and on a small island. Well, The Bus is the third time they sell the same game, with a few tweaks and a different map.

All of them have the same flaws and a lot of bugs. I understand people are forgiving with The Bus and all the bugs that it has because it's in Early Access and bugs are to be expected. People see a promising game that could be great if it ever gets improved. But bear in mind that Fernbus is almost 5 years old and it still has big issues. Fernbus was promising too, but they never delivered. You will read that they're developing modding tools. Well, they said that about Fernbus in 2017, 2018, 2019,... Today you can repaint buses, that's all. You get very few content for the base game and then they sell expensive DLC's to add a couple of buses more or to expand the map.

You can check the price history, and you'll notice that sales are weak as well. Don't expect more than 30% discounts from these publishers.

If you can get past the the horrible AI traffic, the unstable FPS, and all the bugs, you'll enjoy The Bus. If you're expecting mod support, bugs fixed or the game to be improved in a meaningful way, I'd say from my experience that you're up for disappointment.

It is not great in its current state, and I personally doubt it'll ever get much better. So I'd recommend not to buy this game now, but wait to see if this time they really keep their promises. Chances are they won't.

Amazing game for the price. Very well done. I still have not finished it, you can burn as many hours as you want.

Street Fighter II is better.

Great game for casual gaming. Addictive and challenging.

Very useful to see how your hardware is performing or to identify where it's failing or limiting the performance.