Bus Simulator vs PTS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bus Simulator
Experience realistic city driving as a bus driver. Choose from various bus types, customize them, and complete routes in diverse global locations. Enjoy career, free-ride, and multiplayer modes with detailed interiors and advanced physics.
- Realistic global maps
- Variety of bus types
- Bus customization
- Career, Free-ride, and Multiplayer modes
- Detailed interiors
- Bus company management
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Bus Simulator : EVO puts you in the driver’s seat and lets you become a real Bus Driver! Featuring detailed maps all over the world, a wide variety of modern city buses, coach buses and school buses with realistic interiors and a groundbreaking 1:1 physics engine. Get behind the wheel and drive your bus to complete all the routes! Drive a diesel, hybrid, electric, articulated, coach bus or school bus and customize your bus as you wish. This bus simulation game features next-gen graphics, a wide variety of buses to choose from, and multiple cities from around the world to explore in career mode, freeride, and online multiplayer with friends. Completely realistic Coach Bus Simulator. Features: - Realistic intracity and outside of city maps: United States of America (San Francisco,Texas, Boston, and Interstate 95), South America (Buenos Aires), Europe (Germany, Spain, Berlin, London, Prague, St. Petersburg), Dubai, Shanghai and more… - Multiple diesel, hybrid, electric, articulated, coach bus and school buses to choose from. - Six real coach bus - Career, Free-ride and Multiplayer modes. - Lots of bus customization options including paint, accessories, body parts, air conditioning, flags, decals and many more. - Detailed and customizable interiors. - Open/Close Doors button, animated people entering/exiting the bus - Steering wheel, buttons or tilting controls. - Locations of any kind: city, countryside, mountain, desert and snow - Multiple time of day and weather conditions to choose from. - Drive kids to school using three different school bus models. - Bus company management system with hired drivers for your buses and custom route scheduling. - Intelligent Traffic System - Immersive online multiplayer cooperative gameplay. - Add your friends, use live chat and invite them to play in coop bus routes. - Leaderboards, achievements and rankings. Become the best bus driver in the world with Bus Simulator : EVO! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Official website: https://www.ovilex.com/ TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@ovilexsoftware Follow us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OviLexSoft Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OvilexSoftware Privacy Policy - https://www.ovilex.com/privacy-policy/
PTS
Experience the life of a bus driver in this simulation game. Pick up passengers, deliver them to their destinations, and earn money to customize and upgrade your fleet. Enjoy a realistic driving experience with highly detailed and customizable coach buses.
- Realistic coach bus driving
- Passenger pick-up and drop-off
- Bus customization and upgrades
- In-game currency for purchases
- Detailed bus models
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Hey bus drivers. Coach buses need to be driven. People need to be delivered to their destination. If you are up to the task, jump into a coach bus, all of them are highly customizable and fully modeled. Pick up people from the terminal and take them to their destination. Doing this earns you money, which you can spend to buy new buses or upgrade and tune your current one. Enjoy and have fun.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bus Simulator at monthly against PTS's every 8 months. Bus Simulator also leads on ratings volume (23K vs 1.6K) and chart position (#112 vs unranked). PTS's advantage is review sentiment (88% vs 68%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Bus Simulator sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and PTS sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Bus Simulator against 4.5 for PTS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bus Simulator has 23K ratings behind it against 1.6K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Bus Simulator's written reviews are positive against 88% of PTS's.
Bus Simulator ships an update monthly, PTS every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bus Simulator | PTS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23K ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.6K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 68.3% of reviews | 87.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 1.6K |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #112 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.2 GB | 149 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexandru Marusac | SkisoSoft |
Customer experience
Bus Simulator
PTS
User reviews
Bus Simulator
From 23K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Realistic and detailed graphics
- 🚌 Variety of bus models and customization options
- 👍 Immersive driving experience
- 🎨 Ability to customize bus with company logo and name
Room to improve
- 💰 Buses and upgrades are very expensive
- 🚦 Sensitive braking system and strict penalties
- 🚗 Unrealistic and aggressive AI traffic behavior
- 🛑 Certain routes locked behind specific bus types
PTS
From 1.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and engaging
- 🚀 Realistic simulation
- 💡 Detailed graphics
- 🚌 Wide variety of buses
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🚦 Unrealistic AI traffic
- 🔄 Slow acceleration and turning
- 🕰️ Long passenger boarding/deboarding times
Bugs and requests
Bus Simulator
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game progress and purchases not carrying over between updates
- Crashes and glitches when switching between game modes
- Inconsistent performance and loading issues on some devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add more cities and countries to drive in
- Introduce a free roam mode with open doors
- Implement a fuel system and refueling stations
- Add more interactive features like wheelchair ramps
- Improve traffic light and stop sign detection
PTS
Reported bugs
4 issues- Fuel icon remaining on screen after refueling
- Passengers getting stuck or not boarding properly
- Sudden loss of control and steering issues
- Black screen when entering bus depot
Requested features
6 requests- Add free mode
- Improve collision avoidance system
- Introduce pedestrians and more dynamic traffic
- Expand map and route options
- Add interior customization and features
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- Implement company management and scheduling
In-app purchases
Bus Simulator
- VIP Membership2 variants$4.991 Month
- 200.000 money + 350 coins$0.99
- Winter Special Offer$2.99
- 250.000 money + 450 coins$2.99
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- Get 50,000 money!$2.99
- Get 200 coins!$3.99
- Unlock all levels!$4.99
- Get 100,000 money!$4.99
- Get this articulated bus now!$6.99
- Get 500 coins!$7.99
- Get this articulated bus now!$7.99
- Get 250,000 money!$9.99
- Get 1000 coins!$12.99
PTS
- $12000$0.99
- Update 1.2 vehicles$0.99
- Update 1.3 vehicle$0.99
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- All Colors$1.99
- Update 1.1 vehicles$1.99
- Update 1.4 vehicles$1.99
- $30000$2.99
- Update 1.0 vehicles$4.99
- $100000$5.99
Questions
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