Comparison

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D vs Driving School Simulator 3D

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D

Experience the thrill of driving and parking various buses in a realistic city and wildlife safari environment. Complete missions, obey traffic rules, and customize your vehicles to become the ultimate bus driver.

Highlights
  • Realistic bus driving and parking
  • City and Wildlife Safari modes
  • Over 140 buses and cars
  • Open-world city exploration
  • Bus customization options
  • Day, dusk, and night modes
Features
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Show off your driving skills by taking the wheel in the thrilling School Bus Simulator Drive 3D game. Perfect for fans of bus games, bus simulators, and car parking challenges, this game lets you become a top-notch bus driver. Navigate city traffic, obey signals, avoid obstacles, and reach your destinations on time to earn rewards. Impress the strict Dean with your driving prowess and prove your skills in this engaging driving game. Speed through city streets to pick up and drop off students at multiple locations, ensuring they get to school safely. If you're passionate about bus driving, this game is your ideal match. Experience the full range of bus driving challenges with various buses, realistic physics, and stunning graphics. Additionally, enjoy a unique bus-driving adventure in a Wildlife Safari Park. Drive kids through the park, viewing animals in their natural habitats, and transport the staff to various locations. Feel the excitement as you drive past elephants, hippos, and more. School Bus Simulator Drive 3D Game Modes: - School Duty: Take on assignments to pick up and drop off kids around the city. Navigate traffic and ensure timely arrivals. - School Bus Parking: Test your parking skills with a large bus. Maneuver and park without damage. - Wildlife Safari: Drive kids through a thrilling safari, showcasing your bus-driving skills as you navigate past wild animals. - Open World: Enjoy free driving in the city. Choose your favorite bus and drive endlessly. - Special Events: Participate in time-limited events, driving through the city and earning rewards. Game Features: Over 140 buses and cars to drive, including challenging driving levels and parking tests. Realistic day, dusk, and night modes for an authentic driving experience. Open-world city for endless driving fun. Free-cam view to appreciate the city and safari graphics. Unique Wildlife Safari driving experience with diverse animals. Extensive bus customization options. If you love driving and want to master bus driving, this is the ultimate bus game for you. Take the challenge and drive a variety of buses, from school buses to monster buses, becoming the ultimate bus driver. Enjoy the full experience of city and wildlife safari driving. Customize your bus and showcase your skills. This bus driving game is available in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Russian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Korean, Malay, Filipino, Romanian, Polish and Kazakh. Visit Us: https://games2win.com Like Us: https://facebook.com/Games2win Follow Us: https://twitter.com/Games2win Contact Us at mobile@games2win.com with any questions about our driving games. Privacy Policy: https://www.games2win.com/corporate/privacy-policy.asp Terms of Services: https://www.games2win.com/corporate/terms-of-service.asp

About

Driving School Simulator 3D

Experience realistic car driving and parking with a variety of game modes. Customize your vehicles, compete online, and explore open-world maps. Learn driving rules and become a professional driver in this immersive simulator.

Highlights
  • Realistic driving mechanics
  • Car customization and tuning
  • Career mode with missions
  • Online multiplayer challenges
  • Free roam exploration
  • Detailed 3D city environment
  • Realistic physics and damage system
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Driving Simulator: Experience Realistic Driving with Driving School 3D Driving School 3D is the ultimate driving simulator game that offers you the most realistic experience of learning to drive a car. With a variety of maps to choose from, you can practice your skills in various environments and situations. You can pick between multiple car steering options, manual transmission or auto transmission, left or right controls layout. You can mod your vehicle, change its colour, wheels and add custom registration plates. Pick and tune cars to your liking. This driving simulator offers you several game modes. CAREER Start the engine, wear the seat belt and go to the road. Watch out for traffic signals, traffic lanes and rules. Follow instructions, learn and become a professional driver. In the rush hour, roads will be populated with other vehicles, buses, trucks, and people walking, so be careful and watch out for the police. When you reach the finish of each level, there will be a marked parking slot. Use your steering skills and complete the parking simulator game part. It is even greater challenge than the driving itself. MULTIPLAYER Join the competition online in a multiplayer mode. Play the driving simulator game against players from all over the world, reach the finish before they do and park the car. You select maps you want to compete in. FREE ROAM Start a car simulator game on the foot. Enter the car and go. You can free roam and drive the best sports cars around the city or country. Watch the fuel level gauge and refill car if needed at gas stations. Find hidden coins, enter the buildings at several locations in this real life simulation. You vehicle will simulate damage if you crash. Watch out for pedestrians and drive safely. Driving School features: • amazing 3D city environment with AI traffic cars and AI pedestrians, • exciting missions, • great realistic physics, • car customizations, mods and tuning, • detailed open world maps with more than 80 levels, • free roam drive, • exit out of the car and move around on foot. If you run out of the gas, you can go on foot to the nearest gas station to refill your gas can • realistic driving mechanics, physics and damage system, • different camera views • multiplayer driving challenge mode VISIT US: https://nullapp.com LIKE US: https://facebook.com/nullapp.games In-App membership subscription Driving School 3D VIP Membership subscription is a 7-day (weekly) subscription. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged $6.99 for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://nullapp.com/?p=privacy, Terms of Service: https://nullapp.com/?p=tos

Screenshots

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D4 screens
Driving School Simulator 3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Driving School Simulator 3D at #53 against School Bus Simulator Drive 3D's unranked. Driving School Simulator 3D also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. School Bus Simulator Drive 3D sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Driving School Simulator 3D sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for School Bus Simulator Drive 3D against 4.6 for Driving School Simulator 3D. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 133K and 72K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of School Bus Simulator Drive 3D's written reviews are positive against 71% of Driving School Simulator 3D's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D ships an update monthly, Driving School Simulator 3D fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 8, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
School Bus Simulator Drive 3D versus Driving School Simulator 3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool Bus Simulator Drive 3DDriving School Simulator 3D
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (133K ratings)4.6 (72K ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.9% of reviews — better70.6% of reviews
Number of ratings133K — better72K
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#53 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size588 MB624 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGames2winMICRO MEDIA d.o.o.

Customer experience

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D

All ratings132,211 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral5.7%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews1,053 reviews
Positive73.9%
Neutral9.9%
Negative16.2%

Driving School Simulator 3D

All ratings71,438 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral5.1%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews978 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral11.3%
Negative18.1%

User reviews

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D

From 133K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fun and addictive game
  • 👍 Good variety of vehicles
  • 😊 Enjoyable driving experience

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Lack of map/navigation in open world
  • 🔁 Repetitive levels
  • 🔋 Frequent ads interrupting gameplay
  • 🐛 Glitches and crashes

Driving School Simulator 3D

From 72K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💯 Realistic driving experience
  • 🎓 Helpful for learning driving skills
  • 🎨 Customizable cars and characters
  • 🎢 Fun and entertaining gameplay

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 🚦 Unrealistic traffic behavior
  • 🤯 Frustrating restart on minor mistakes
  • 🔋 High battery consumption

Bugs and requests

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezing and kicking players out
  • Vehicles behaving erratically
  • Collision detection issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • More levels and driving scenarios
  • Ability to get out of vehicle and explore
  • Improved graphics and realism
  • Less intrusive ads or ad-free option

Driving School Simulator 3D

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Multiplayer mode not working
  • Inconsistent stop light detection
  • Vehicles getting stuck or glitching

Requested features

5 requests
  • Night mode and weather effects
  • More diverse maps and locations
  • Ability to enter buildings and interact with the environment
  • Multiplayer mode with real-time racing
  • Police chases and traffic violations

In-app purchases

10 purchases

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D

One-time10
  • Big long bus$0.99
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Pack of 25,000 coins$2.99
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  • Atlas Pathfinder$2.99
  • Pack of 20,000 coins$4.99
  • Special Offer 1$4.99
  • Pack of 50,000 coins$9.99
  • Special Offer 2$9.99
  • Mighty Bus pack$24.99
  • Exclusive Offer$29.99
10 purchases

Driving School Simulator 3D

Subscriptions4
  • VIP Membership3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • VIP Membership3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • VIP Membership3 Days trial$9.997 Days
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  • VIP Membership$24.991 Month
One-time6
  • Gold Pack 1$1.99
  • Starter Money Pack$2.99
  • Pro Money Pack$4.99
Show 3 more
  • Gold Pack 3$6.99
  • Veteran Money Pack$8.99
  • Unlock all vehicles$9.99

Questions

Is School Bus Simulator Drive 3D free?
School Bus Simulator Drive 3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Driving School Simulator 3D free?
Driving School Simulator 3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, School Bus Simulator Drive 3D or Driving School Simulator 3D?
Driving School Simulator 3D is rated higher. School Bus Simulator Drive 3D averages 4.5 out of 5 from 133K ratings, while Driving School Simulator 3D averages 4.6 from 72K ratings.
Do School Bus Simulator Drive 3D or Driving School Simulator 3D have ads?
Both School Bus Simulator Drive 3D and Driving School Simulator 3D show ads.
Which is updated more often, School Bus Simulator Drive 3D or Driving School Simulator 3D?
School Bus Simulator Drive 3D ships an update monthly, and Driving School Simulator 3D fortnightly. Most recently, School Bus Simulator Drive 3D was updated on November 8, 2026 and Driving School Simulator 3D on November 8, 2026.

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