Best Bus & Tram Simulator Games

Our take: The most-played bus sim on PlayStation and the best entry point for the full city-operator fantasy. Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop hands you open cities, a fleet of officially licensed buses, and a career building up your own bus company — managing routes, finances, a day-night cycle and dynamic weather. With over 8,800 ratings it has by far the largest community here, supports four-player online multiplayer so you can run a transit network with friends, and — crucially — it's included with PlayStation Plus Extra, so many of you can play it at no extra cost. The 3.4 rating reflects launch bugs and rough edges more than a bad game; it's still the deepest dedicated city-bus sim on the platform.

Our take: The game that brought proper city-bus simming to consoles, and still one of the best. Bus Simulator puts you behind the wheel across a large open city, driving licensed buses on fixed routes, keeping to schedules and handling passengers, with up to four players online. It's rated 4.05 from over 6,200 players — higher than its bigger-budget sequel — and rated Everyone, which tells you the fundamentals hold up. It's an older title now and lacks the newer games' polish and content, but if you want a dependable, well-liked city-bus sim and don't need the latest features, it's a safe pick that the community clearly rates.

Our take: The pick for long-distance coach driving rather than city routes. Fernbus Coachbus Simulator is built around Germany's intercity "Fernbus" network, sending you down long stretches of autobahn and country road in a full-size touring coach with realistic controls and licensed vehicles. Rated 3.59 from around 2,200 players, on PS5, ESRB Everyone. It's a more relaxed, motorway-cruising experience than the busy stop-to-stop city sims — and it shows its budget origins — but it's the only real long-haul coach sim on PlayStation, so if cross-country driving is the appeal, this is the one.

Our take: A budget, no-frills city-bus sim. Bus Driving Simulator EVO covers the basics — drive a route, follow the traffic rules, pick up and drop off passengers — without the career depth or licensed fleets of the bigger games. It's rated 3.19 from around 630 players, on PlayStation, ESRB Everyone. The small audience and middling score are fair: it's a simpler, cheaper option that does the core driving acceptably but won't hold you the way Bus Bound or Bus Simulator 21 will. Worth a look mainly if you've exhausted the better picks or want something low-cost.

Our take: The specialist — and the weakest-rated bus entry, included for completeness. Tourist Bus Simulator moves the action to the holiday island of Fuerteventura, where you ferry tourists between resorts and the airport in coaches and shuttle buses, with some light management of a tour operation. It's on PlayStation, ESRB Everyone, but at 2.71 from under 600 players it's the lowest-scoring game on this list — it shipped rough and feels dated. It earns a mention only because the sunny-island tourist-transport angle is genuinely different from everything else here; for most players the city and coach sims above are the better buy.

Our take: The best of the tram sims, and the start of the rail-bound half of this list. City Transport Simulator: Tram puts you in the driver's cab of a modern city tram, managing acceleration, braking and timetables along electrified urban lines with a physics-based driving model and a day-night cycle. Rated 3.95 from around 510 players — the highest of the tram trio — on PlayStation, ESRB Everyone. Trams scratch a different itch from buses: you follow fixed rails and signals rather than weaving through traffic, which makes for a calmer, more rhythmic drive. If that appeals, this is the tram sim to try first.

Our take: The most authenticity-focused tram sim on PlayStation. TramSim: Console Edition brings the detailed PC tram simulator to console, recreating a real European tram network with a faithfully modelled cab and genuine operating procedures — it leans hard into realism over arcade accessibility. Rated 3.91 from around 630 players, on PlayStation, ESRB Everyone. The flip side of that authenticity is a steeper learning curve and a slower pace, so it's aimed at players who actively want the procedural detail rather than a casual drive. For tram enthusiasts after the real thing, it's the closest console gets.

Our take: The tram sim with a multiplayer twist. Tram Simulator Urban Transit has you running a modern light-rail network through a busy city, driving to schedule and managing passenger stops — and uniquely among the trams here, it supports up to four players online so you can operate the network together. Rated 3.68 from around 360 players, on PlayStation, ESRB Everyone. It's the smallest audience of the tram trio and a touch rougher than City Transport Simulator, but the co-op angle makes it the pick if you want to drive trams with friends rather than alone.

Our take: One to watch rather than buy today. Bus Simulator 27 is the next mainline entry from Stillalive Studios, the team behind the Bus Simulator series, and is headed to PS5 — expect the series' signature mix of licensed buses, sprawling cities and company-building career play, refreshed for the current generation. It isn't out yet, so there are no player ratings to go on and we've placed it last for that reason. But for anyone who works through the city sims above and wants what's next, this is the upcoming release to keep an eye on.