Games like Bully: Scholarship Edition
If Bully: Scholarship Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Agefield High: Rock the School, No School No Rules and Arthas - The Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its soundtrack enhances atmosphere, writing quality is exceptional and nostalgic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Bully: Scholarship Edition is an open-world action-adventure game set in a satirical boarding school environment, released by Rockstar New England in 2008. The experience combines character-interaction and school-life-simulation mechanics with combat-systems and open-world-exploration, tasking players with navigating social hierarchies as 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins. Players describe the atmosphere as whimsical and nostalgic, and reviewers highlight that the soundtrack enhances the overall experience. Combat rewards tactical-positioning-matters, adding strategic depth to encounters. The game maintains a normal difficulty level with a medium length, designed as a solo-only sit-down experience. Currently priced at $14.99 USD, it holds an 80% positive rating from 14,817 Steam reviews and is marked as Playable on Steam Deck.
About Bully: Scholarship Edition: Bully tells the story of mischievous 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl and navigate the social hierarchy in the worst school around.
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Agefield High: Rock the School
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Top pick for Bully: Scholarship Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Relive your High School days in the town of Agefield. It’s the early 2000s, and graduation is on the horizon. REBEL with your friends, win over your dream girl and ROCK the school! A coming-of-age adventure about friendship, love, and rebellion inspired by the raunchy teen comedies of the era.
No School No Rules
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Second-strongest match for Bully: Scholarship Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Immerse yourself in the full cycle of life of the most severe school in Russia! The game will tell you the story of a Russian schoolboy Ivan who is on the verge of graduation and expulsion. He intends to finish school in his own way and, along the way, take revenge on all teachers and local bullies.
Arthas - The Game
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Third-strongest match for Bully: Scholarship Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
A great game about a Great man!
South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
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Shares open world exploration and a nostalgic mood with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Ranked #4 for Bully: Scholarship Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.
POSTAL 2
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Shares open world exploration and a whimsical mood with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Ranked #5 for Bully: Scholarship Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Bully: Scholarship Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes South Park: The Fractured But Whole, a sequel to 2014's award-winning South Park: The Stick of Truth.
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
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Shares open world exploration with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Ranked #7 for Bully: Scholarship Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
Saints Row 2
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Ranked #8 for Bully: Scholarship Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
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Yakuza 0
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Reviewers of Bully: Scholarship Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
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Shares open world exploration and a nostalgic mood with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Reviewers of Bully: Scholarship Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Experience entertainment blockbusters Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online — now upgraded for a new generation with stunning visuals, faster loading, 3D audio, and more, plus exclusive content for GTA Online players.
Mafia
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Shares open world exploration and a nostalgic mood with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Reviewers of Bully: Scholarship Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Reviewers of Bully: Scholarship Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Alluring audio! Pixel art perfection! Beat-em up beauty! Discover how hard a 32,000kg ninja hits with The Ninja Saviours!
Red Dead Redemption
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Shares open world exploration and a nostalgic mood with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Reviewers of Bully: Scholarship Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.
The Simplest Game
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Reviewers of Bully: Scholarship Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
The Simplest Game is a 2D logic game with pixel graphics. Yes, this is actually the simplest game ever! Every level in this game is the same. But try to get out of the level and not break your brain!
Red Dead Redemption 2
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Shares open world exploration with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Reviewers of Bully: Scholarship Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bully: Scholarship Edition at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Bully: Scholarship Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Bully: Scholarship Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Bully: Scholarship Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Bully: Scholarship Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Bully: Scholarship Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Bully: Scholarship Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and a whimsical mood with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Priced ~93% under Bully: Scholarship Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~80% under Bully: Scholarship Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and a nostalgic mood with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and a whimsical mood with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes South Park: The Fractured But Whole, a sequel to 2014's award-winning South Park: The Stick of Truth.
Frequently asked about Bully: Scholarship Edition
- Does Bully: Scholarship Edition run on Steam Deck?
- Bully: Scholarship Edition is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Bully: Scholarship Edition cost?
- Bully: Scholarship Edition is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bully: Scholarship Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bully: Scholarship Edition are Agefield High: Rock the School, No School No Rules, Arthas - The Game.
- Who developed Bully: Scholarship Edition?
- Bully: Scholarship Edition was developed by Rockstar New England and published by Rockstar Games.
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