Bus Driver

The player selects a route from tiers (described below), and then after a short loading time, the player sees the selected bus either at a bus depot or terminal. After halting at the first stop, the bus must be driven along the correct route (indicated at intersections by orange arrows) whilst obeying all traffic rules and stopping at all bus stops. If the player fails to do so, points will be taken from their score. When the game begins, one tier of routes, which includes six buses, is available.

In total, there are six tiers, thirty-six routes and thirteen buses (seventeen in Temsa Edition). To unlock the next tier, the player must drive at least four of the routes successfully. As the game progresses, routes become more tedious. The player will lose points if they disobey traffic laws (going out of lane without using blinkers, driving on the wrong side of the road, hitting other vehicles, hitting obstacles like streetlamp), upset passengers (by braking too hard or causing accidents) or they depart from the bus stop too early, honking at the passengers to make them board faster at the bus stop or even if they leave passengers waiting at a bus stop.

Bus Driver received "mixed or average" reviews from critics. Review aggregator Metacritic calculated a score of 61 out of 100 based on 10 critic reviews, with two positive, six mixed, and two negative. GameRankings listed an average of 62% based on 12 reviews.

Some reviewers responded positively to the game's basic gameplay. Game Chronicles praised it for making players "feel good about obeying traffic laws and driving safe," in contrast to more conventional driving games that reward reckless behavior. GameWatcher similarly wrote that the game succeeded as "a simple casual game" that accomplished its limited goals well. CPUGamer said the game avoided the "cardboard feeling" found in some other titles.