City Bus Manager 2.6.5 for macOS

You know the feeling of waiting for a bus that never shows up — this game hands you the timetable and says: fix it. That's the whole hook.

Route planning — you draw lines on a real city map and decide where buses stop, how often they run, and what happens when traffic gets ugly.

Fleet buying — you pick from more than 20 bus models, each with its own quirks for capacity, fuel, and breakdowns.

Depot management — you hire drivers, schedule maintenance, and keep an eye on the repair bay before buses start failing mid-shift.

Passenger reviews — riders complain about late buses, crowded seats, and dirty floors. Their feedback is the closest thing to a scoreboard.

Technology tree — you unlock better ticketing, nicer shelters, and cleaner buses as your company grows.

Some of the smartest touches in version 2.6.5 are the ones you might not notice until your second or third city.

Adjust dwell time at a single stop, not the whole route

Right-click any stop on the map and you can adjust the dwell time per stop instead of applying a blanket setting to the whole route. That one tweak has saved me from late penalties on a downtown loop where the third stop always backs up after 4pm. Another quiet helper: holding Shift while placing a new stop snaps it to the nearest road, so you stop fighting the map when you are zoomed out over a tight neighborhood grid.

The driver roster screen now highlights fatigue build-up in yellow forty minutes before a driver hits the legal limit. It is a soft warning, easy to miss, but it prevents those emergency reassignments that used to wreck an evening schedule. And if you ever lose track of a bus mid-shift, double-click its number in the fleet list — the camera jumps to it on the map, even if it is idling on a side street because you forgot to assign a relief driver.

• Shift-click road-snapping for fast stop placement
• right-click dwell-time overrides on individual stops
• fatigue warnings forty minutes before a driver times out
• double-click fleet numbers to jump the camera instantly
• service-center ticket sales now show a weekly trend graph

The service center got a quiet upgrade too: ticket sales now show a small weekly trend graph when you hover over the revenue number. You can spot whether that dip is a one-off weather pattern or something wrong with your route coverage, all without opening a separate report.

Bottom line: it is a spreadsheet with wheels, and that is a compliment.

• macOS: not specified
• Architecture: ARM and 64-bit x86
• Interface languages: Russian, English, German, Bulgarian, Spanish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, French, Czech