Bully: Scholarship Edition
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This open-world action-adventure game, released in 2008 by Rockstar Games, puts players in the role of a student navigating school life. With 36,428 Steam reviews showing 84% positive sentiment, the singleplayer, third-person experience offers substantial content.
Overview
Bully: Scholarship Edition is a 2008 Action game developed by Rockstar New England and published by Rockstar Games. On Steam it has gathered 41,025 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Rockstar New England with publisher Rockstar Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 2.0 million to 4.6 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Bully: Scholarship Edition can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
41,025
Positive
84%
Steam appid
12200
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.02.0M to 4.6M
units (median: 3.3M)
≈ $16.9M to $39.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2008 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_84% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Bully: Scholarship Edition at roughly 2.0 million to 4.6 million copies, with a median around 3.3 million, derived from its 41,025 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $28.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $10.18Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.18 to $14.99, averaging $13.79 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.18 on 2026-05-18.
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Open WorldActionAdventureThird PersonSingleplayerComedyGreat SoundtrackFunnyClassicDark HumorStory RichSandboxSatireAtmosphericExplorationMatureSimulationControllerMultiplayerRPG
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Bully: Scholarship Edition sold?
- indielist estimates Bully: Scholarship Edition has sold between 1,969,200 and 4,594,800 units (median 3,282,000), derived from its 41,025 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Bully: Scholarship Edition?
- Bully: Scholarship Edition was developed by Rockstar New England and published by Rockstar Games.
- When was Bully: Scholarship Edition released?
- Bully: Scholarship Edition was released in 2008.
- How many reviews does Bully: Scholarship Edition have on Steam?
- Bully: Scholarship Edition has 41,025 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Bully: Scholarship Edition within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Rockstar New England's other releases and Rockstar Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Bully: Scholarship Edition sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Bully: Scholarship Edition page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.