Desert Bus VR similar games & best alternatives

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Desert Bus VR

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

Desert Bus is back and better than ever! The 1998 Penn and Teller cult hit mini-game is coming to virtual reality, so you can fully immerse yourself in the thrilling eight-hour trip from Arizona to Nevada. It’s almost like you’re driving the “wheel” thing!

What works

  • Unique and meditative gameplay
  • Free to play
  • Supports multiplayer social interaction
  • Faithful remake of classic desert bus
  • Therapeutic and relaxing experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Extremely repetitive and monotonous
  • Long play sessions required
  • Limited gameplay variety
  • Some technical issues and crashes
  • Minimal creative or strategic depth

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Toy Tinker Simulator: BETA

  • Assemble with Care

  • Monuments Flipper: Prologue

  • Barro

  • Barro T23

  • Walking Zombie: Shooter

More exploratory

Games that feels like Desert Bus VR but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • The Long Drive

  • Outbound

  • Back in Service: a Metro Driver

  • Construction Simulator

  • PowerWash Simulator

  • Star Trucker

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Desert Bus VR but with less of a community feel

  • Car Mechanic Simulator 2014

  • OutDrive

  • Euro Truck Simulator

  • Bus Driver

  • Santa Rockstar

  • Ship Graveyard Simulator: Prologue

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Desert Bus VR: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Competence, Experimenting, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026