Pick a city. Any city. Your hometown, Tokyo, Paris or a seaside village: Bus Manager 26 rebuilds it from real map data, street by street, and works out where its people live, work, study and go out. Your job is to get them there.

Draw your first line on the real streets, place the stops and send out the first bus. Passengers walk to your stops, wait, board, change lines and ride to work, to school or to the stadium. They notice when a bus is late or packed, and they let you know.

Build a network that works

• Draw lines street by street and set their frequency, fares and night service.

• Read demand, crowding and profit on the map, line by line and stop by stop.

• Open depots, expand into new districts, win contracts for schools, hospitals, airports and stadiums, and beat rival companies in tenders.

Run a real company

• 21 bus models from 9 manufacturers: minibuses, articulated and bi-articulated buses, double deckers, coaches, school buses, hybrids and electrics, all in your own livery.

• Hire drivers, mechanics and dispatchers, set their pay and keep them happy, or face a strike.

• Send buses to the workshop, diagnose breakdowns yourself and deal with accidents, fines and insurance.

• Watch the money: fares, loans, fuel and electricity prices, and the result of every single day.

A city that lives

• Concerts, matches, festivals, marathons, roadworks and holidays change the way people travel.

• Rain, snow, fog and storms slow the traffic, and day and night follow your city's real sun.

• Districts grow where your buses go, and new neighbourhoods appear.

• Read the local paper, answer passenger mail and post on the city's social network from your office computer.

Play your way

• Career: rise from local operator to transit giant.

• Four scenarios with their own goals, and a sandbox with unlimited money.

• 20 Steam achievements and leaderboards.

• Fully playable in 13 languages.

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