Comparison

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D vs Bus Simulator

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

Bus Simulator

Experience realistic bus driving with endless customization options and a vast open world. Enjoy multiplayer modes and advanced physics for an immersive simulation. Design your dream bus and level up to become the king of the road.

Highlights
  • Realistic driving physics
  • Endless bus customization
  • Huge open world map
  • Multiplayer online mode
  • Live passenger feedback
  • Day/night cycle and realistic sounds
Features
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Be a bus driver in our newest bus driving game to feel like a knight of the road with Bus Simulator Max! Our bus game comes with a super realistic driving feeling, endless customization choices, huge open world and fun addictive gameplay for bus game enthusiasts. PREMIUM PAID CONTENT Please keep in mind that you'll need to pay 1.99$ to start driving in the huge map that the game provides. Without payment, you can. still enjoy the features in the main menu. Endless Selection of Buses and Customization Choices Select a bus model from a wide range of different bus models and brands or design your own bus at our customization garage, modify it, paint and unleash your inner artist. You can create a masterpiece with the provided countless customization options of vinyls, rims, platings and paint to create your dream bus for the driving arena. From classic to iconic concepts that were created by our talented designers, pick your favorite one to either drive around the city or freely to complete missions to level up and become the king of the road. Multiplayer Mode Bus Simulator Max offers multiplayer online mode for you to enjoy the bus driving experience by playing with your friends or family. Or if you feel like you want to challenge someone to spice things up a little bit you can always play with strangers in online multiplayer mode. Advanced Features Feel like a driver in Bus Simulator Max in which we aimed to combine the realism and satisfaction of driving a real coach to create the most sophisticated bus simulator and city bus on mobile with our most advanced physics engine to date. With the help of our most advanced AI, for the first time ever on mobile, you'll get the experience live passenger feedback while driving The vast open world created to test your ultimate drive skills while providing the real coach bus driving gameplay experience on mobile. Experience the ultimate realism of driving thanks to our improved graphics, day/night cycle, real life sounds and our most refined pedestrian and traffic system to date. You can check the terms of use and privacy policy at the link provided below https://sirstudios.com/privacy-policy/ Download it now for free!

Screenshots

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D4 screens
Bus Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: School Bus Simulator Drive 3D at 74% against Bus Simulator's 22%. School Bus Simulator Drive 3D also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (132K vs 4K). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 15 one-off in-app purchases and Bus Simulator sells 25 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: School Bus Simulator Drive 3D has 132K ratings behind it against 4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of School Bus Simulator Drive 3D's written reviews are positive against 22% of Bus Simulator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D ships an update monthly, Bus Simulator every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
School Bus Simulator Drive 3D versus Bus Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool Bus Simulator Drive 3DBus Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (132K ratings) — better4.1 (4K ratings)
Positive reviews74.0% of reviews — better22.3% of reviews
Number of ratings132K — better4K
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size588 MB577 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGames2winSir Studios

Customer experience

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D

All ratings132,211 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral5.7%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews1,021 reviews
Positive74.0%
Neutral9.6%
Negative16.4%

Bus Simulator

All ratings4,023 ratings
Positive74.7%
Neutral5.6%
Negative19.7%
Written reviews372 reviews
Positive22.3%
Neutral8.1%
Negative69.6%

User reviews

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D

From 132K 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

Bus Simulator

From 4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Realistic simulation
  • 🚌 Variety of bus models
  • 🎨 Nice graphics

Room to improve

  • 💰 Paywall to access core features
  • 📺 Excessive ads that interrupt gameplay
  • 🚗 Unrealistic AI driver behavior

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

Bus Simulator

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game crashes when ads are displayed
  • Buses continue moving during ads, causing crashes
  • Glitches that teleport bus to wrong location

Requested features

3 requests
  • More bus models and customization options
  • Ability to pause game during ads
  • Improved traffic simulation

In-app purchases

15 purchases

School Bus Simulator Drive 3D

One-time15
  • Big long bus$0.99
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Jaw Breaker$1.99
Show 12 more
  • Presidents Beast$1.99
  • Big Bus$2.99
  • Pack of 10,000 coins$2.99
  • Pack of 25,000 coins$2.99
  • 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
  • Pack of 125,000 coins$19.99
  • Mighty Bus pack$24.99
  • Exclusive Offer$29.99
25 purchases

Bus Simulator

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Subscription7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • 3 Days Free Trial3 Days trial$1.997 Days
One-time23
  • Car 010$0.99
  • Car 040$0.99
  • Car 050$0.99
Show 20 more
  • Car 080$0.99
  • Car 170$1.99
  • Unlimited Game$1.99
  • Car 090$1.99
  • Car 130$1.99
  • Car 160$1.99
  • Car 085$2.99
  • Car 200$2.99
  • Car 210$3.99
  • Deck Of Cash$4.99
  • Car 220$4.99
  • 1 Gold Bar$4.99
  • Pile Of Cash$9.99
  • Special Offer$9.99
  • 3 Gold Bar$9.99
  • Car 150$9.99
  • Pallet Of Cash$19.99
  • VIP Concept Bus$39.99
  • A TON OF CASH$39.99
  • Car 230$39.99

Questions

Is School Bus Simulator Drive 3D free?
School Bus Simulator Drive 3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bus Simulator free?
Bus Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, School Bus Simulator Drive 3D or Bus Simulator?
School Bus Simulator Drive 3D is rated higher. School Bus Simulator Drive 3D averages 4.5 out of 5 from 132K ratings, while Bus Simulator averages 4.1 from 4K ratings.
Do School Bus Simulator Drive 3D or Bus Simulator have ads?
Both School Bus Simulator Drive 3D and Bus Simulator show ads.
Which is updated more often, School Bus Simulator Drive 3D or Bus Simulator?
School Bus Simulator Drive 3D ships an update monthly, and Bus Simulator every 5 weeks. Most recently, School Bus Simulator Drive 3D was updated on September 25, 2026 and Bus Simulator on September 25, 2026.

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