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Bully: Scholarship Edition
Developer Rockstar New England
Bully (released in the PAL region as Canis Canem Edit; Latin for 'dog eat dog') is a 2006 action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. Set in the fictional New England town of Bullworth, the game follows juvenile delinquent student Jimmy Hopkins, who is involuntarily enrolled at Bullworth Academy, the town's prestigious boarding school. Over the course of a school… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
440 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
71
Fresh
260 positive · 107 negative
95% range 66–75%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 260 | 107 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 18 | 2 | 44 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
14,192 of 17,644 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
73% recommend · 208 yes, 75 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 283 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (35,829 of 42,429 positive).
Players love the game itself but say the PC port is broken and needs mods to run. [1][2][3] Many call it a classic and wish for a sequel. [4][5][6] Some find it works well on Steam Deck or Linux. [7][5][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [3]
One of the rockstars finest creations. Shame that the port is so garbage that this is unplayable. There should be laws written to make it illegal to sell product this badly optimized. This game crashes every 30 minutes and without autosave you will lose your progress. Most of the bugs are fixable with mods but it should not be die hard fans responsibility to fix their subpar product.
- [12]
I graduated from high school back in 1978 and I got bullied a lot then, unfortunately I still have terrible dreams of those experiences. However, this game made me get over those experiences and it made me feel better about myself. Thank you Jimmy Hopkins.
- [9]
I'm going to try my best and put into words how much this game means to me. I remember getting the canis canem edit for the ps2 second hand about a year before the scholarship version came out. Didn't really give too much of a thought back then about it. But once I got my hands on the Scholarship version for the xbox 360, Everything changed. This game for me goes down as one of the top 10 best games ever made …
- [1]
this is my first time playing Bully and, god*amn, this game is fun. BUTT, a big one you need mods and fixes to be able to enjoy the game. The best mods to download if you want to just remaster the game are (mods can be found on NexusMods) 1- Reshade 2- Better Sounds 3- Silent Patch (edit frame rate to 60) 4- derpy script loader 5- Balls of Snow mission fix 6- Extended Draw Distance 7- No Blur No Fog 8- Bully …
- [2]
The ultimate masterpiece, the one game I could play forever and forever. I wish there was a Bully 2. Also to fix the crash problem, open task manager and right click, go to details, then right click on Bully exe and set affinity, choose only 2 CPUs and it won't crash anymore.
Summarised from 34 of the 320 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Bully: Scholarship Edition sits at 71% positive across 367 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The PlayStation 2 version of Bully received "generally favorable" reviews, according to the review aggregator website Metacritic. Robert Ashley of 1Up.com found Bully to be a fresh approach to the open-world genre because it departed from the crime stories associated with Grand Theft Auto; Bullworth in particular was deemed to be more accessible than the sprawling world of San Andreas. GameTrailers praised the town's distinctive residents and changing seasons, and welcomed the shorter journeys between objectives. IGN's Jeremy Dunham however found the repeated travel between mission locations excessive, and criticized the slow opening chapter and occasional bugs that prevented missions from…
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Reactions
60 of 440 · most liked firstopened my installed files for Bully: Scholarship Edition on Steam in order to mess with modding it and realized that the soundtrack for the game is there as just regular MP3s you can add to iTunes??
neutral · AI labelView post →this game is awesome but now it's also kinda sad bc you know rockstar's greedy asses aren't ever making games like this ever again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reminds me about how my favorite Rockstar game and world is Bully, because it’s so concentrated that you really gain a sense of comfort in it, and it constantly feels dense with people to see and things to do
positive · AI labelView post →Remember that time when Game Informer "leaked" Bully 2? Except, y'know, it was bull𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵?
neutral · AI labelView post →LOL Consoles are too expensive, and this is the find out stage of their fuck around journey. Its not all that surprising, especially with the ending of physical games on Sony's part and Microsoft being generally shitty... They might not recover for a while. Bully for them!
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the rockstars finest creations. Shame that the port is so garbage that this is unplayable. There should be laws written to make it illegal to sell product this badly optimized. This game crashes every 30 minutes and without autosave you will lose your progress. Most of the bugs are fixable with mods but it should not be die hard fans responsibility to fix their subpar product.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I graduated from high school back in 1978 and I got bullied a lot then, unfortunately I still have terrible dreams of those experiences. However, this game made me get over those experiences and it made me feel better about myself. Thank you Jimmy Hopkins.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great crash simulator. The actual game shows up briefly between crashes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is my first time playing Bully and, god*amn, this game is fun. BUTT, a big one you need mods and fixes to be able to enjoy the game. The best mods to download if you want to just remaster the game are (mods can be found on NexusMods) 1- Reshade 2- Better Sounds 3- Silent Patch (edit frame rate to 60) 4- derpy script loader 5- Balls of Snow mission fix 6- Extended Draw Distance 7- No Blur No Fog 8- Bully Anniversary Edition HUD 9- True Autosave And that's it your game will be great.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I waited too long to play this game. apparently it sucks on windows, but on linux I have no problems or crashes what so ever. Highly enjoyable game, especially if you like gta, saints row and the likes. When on sale, one of the best three fiddy (eur) one can spend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bully is a Christmas Game 😤
positive · AI labelView post →This small-scale (Bully-scale) open world indie crime sim game takes place in a rundown 90's housing estate in Northern England! THE ESTATE has no Steam page yet, but you can follow development here! linktr.ee/ctrlsway by indie dev Ctrlsway #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →rockstar. rockstar i love this game. fix it. fix the game. you can't sell a decade plus old game for $15 USD and have it NOT WORK. love the game. run the patch. devs please make functional games i beg. if you can optimize rdr1 for netflix you can fix bully's crashes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The ultimate masterpiece, the one game I could play forever and forever. I wish there was a Bully 2. Also to fix the crash problem, open task manager and right click, go to details, then right click on Bully exe and set affinity, choose only 2 CPUs and it won't crash anymore.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What the ♥♥♥♥ is wrong with this port? It crashes constantly, the audio is bitcrushed to hell and the first cutscene wouldn't even load. Rockstar is one of the largest game companies on the planet and they're entirely content selling a broken product. Any other platform would pull a game from the store if it was this non functional but somehow on steam it gets away with a Very Positive. It's disappointing to see one of their best games treated like this, and it shows complete disrespect to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love this game, but sometimes, game crashed for no reason..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is actually near impossible to run on modern hardware even with the silent patch
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Our indie game ❤️🔥 - Survive the hordes of Hell - Deck-building on the go - Play as anime girl Dante - Banger OST - Bully the Judge of Hell to tears
neutral · AI labelView post →Certified hood classic. Need a patch to get it working on modern PCs so be wary of that before buying. Make sure you read a guide/watch a youtube video about patching this game for newer systems it's pretty simple.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best Rockstar game to date. To all the people complaining about crashes, literally look at the top guide and follow the instructions and it will work perfectly, it took like 2 minutes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →played this game on ps2 and literally completed the whole game three times, bought it on pc cause i wanted to replay it and oh god is the pc porting insanely ♥♥♥♥. but thank god silentpatch saved us because this would be unplayable. and the game is so buggy idk for others but for me it is. would be a thumbs up review but gng the game is 20 years old no wonder why it isn't getting updated no more. (finished the game btw)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GOING LIVE EARLY 🔴 TIME TO PLAY A ROBLOX GAME WHERE CHILDREN WILL BULLY ME www.twitch.tv/lucah
neutral · AI labelView post →You have to play with the silent patch mod to play this game nowadays due to it fixing the constant crashing on modern windows os but it pays off once you get it running. Easily the most creative rockstar game they have ever made
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →please fix the bugs, the videogames crashes a lot and you have to restart it over and over again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look for these two at my Dealers Den table at Megaplex! And grab yourself a job application for Bully Burger or Bullybusters Game Rental!
neutral · AI labelView post →Its a 32 bit game, so its crashing on 64 bit computers. Because Rockstar is lazy to do what people ask. So Jimmy Hopkins will throw a stink bomb on every Rockstar employee until they fix this problem.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had really high hopes to enjoy this game like I did when i was young, but it crashed three times in the first 30 minutes i played it. No autosave, or a way to save from the menu is awful. Requested a refund unfortunately.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🔴 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙒𝙄𝙏𝘾𝙃!!! Mean Girls Day Bully Squad 💋 Game: Dead by Daylight ⏩️ twitch.tv/pellylicious
neutral · AI labelView post →MINNIFRED IS GONNA DO SOME ART SO SHE CAN PLAY A GAME LATER AND NOT BULLY HERSELF www.twitch.tv/partydemoness 🎨: @drawotion.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm going to try my best and put into words how much this game means to me. I remember getting the canis canem edit for the ps2 second hand about a year before the scholarship version came out. Didn't really give too much of a thought back then about it. But once I got my hands on the Scholarship version for the xbox 360, Everything changed. This game for me goes down as one of the top 10 best games ever made period! Everything about this is fantastic! From the incredible story to the well made…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only problem with this game is the PC port. I believe it's memory issues conflicting with newer hardware, but there's a patch for this problem called SilentPatchBully. Before that it'd crash pretty often but runs smooth so far! As for the game, if you somehow haven't played it, it's a must play. Idk what it is about this game, maybe it's for nostalgia reasons, but I come back every year or couple months to replay the whole story. Great game and isn't anything like it. I'm not sure how…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rockstar, please please PLEASE....fix this lost gem, this game still has a thriving community. i have windows 11 and even with the Silent Patch it still crashes. please don't let this game go to hell. i love this game and many other people do. come on its literally better to play this game on a Xbox 360 emulator than it is to play the steam version. it has no crashing better sound effects and more, so why can't the pc version do it?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →YandereDev just commented on my Bully video basically saying "if you want another game like bully, I recommend Yandere Simulator" Yeah buddy, I'm sure YOU would recommend that game.
positive · AI labelView post →This has always been one of my favorite games since it came out. I'm playing on Steam Deck OLED and it runs flawlessly. The atmosphere of the towns, especially during the holiday segments is great. I find myself just riding a bike around without doing any missions just to take it in. A game that needed a sequel for sure.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The PC port Is a joke, Its 2026 and Rockstar cannot even be asked to keep their games running smoothly, crash free on modern OS. Windows Compatibility Mode set to XP SP2 + SilentPatch Crash 1 - Occurred a few hours In after starting a mission. Crash 2 - Changed custommemorymgr from 0 to 1, lasted 20mins before crashing again, at mission start "Carnival Date". Crash 3 - Changed custommemorymgr from 0 to 2, lasted 10mins before crashing again, at mission start "Carnival Date". I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was my GTA as a kid as I wasn't allowed to play them. Story is charming and gameplay is solid. 100% is fun and simple. The sequel to this needs to become a reality as its been rumoured for years, I know i'll be there day 1.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A classic game that will probably never get a sequel or a spinoff. A Certified Hood Classic.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game on my Steam Deck and it worked great I’ve had no crashes. But on a regular pc the game keeps on crashing and is unplayable. So it’s better to play on the Steam Deck. Note: The game only runs at 30fps on the Steam Deck
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just emulate it. game is great but is completely left to rot by rockstar... cant save settings, resolution changes result in only seeing top left qtr of my game, sound settings dont do anything even at 0, and everyone in the game chats and quips constantly like its bugged via framerate like every old rockstar game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is THE GOAT, Rockstar is THE GOAT, Jimmy Hopkins is THE GOAT, if you play this game you are THE GOAT, if you don't you have unrealised GOAT potential. GOAT!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →People mention silentpatch for a reason. Running the game without it is unplayable sadly. Game will crash for any little thing. After several crashes I tried ailentpatch and had no more crashes until I got to the Balls of Snow mission. Which apparently is pretty common glitch if you set the game to 60 FPS. Though once you switch down to 30, the mission works and can go back to 60 afterwards. Sucks that you have to jump through hoops to get the game to work right but I love this game still.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved this game on PS2 and put many hours into it back in the day, unfortunately this PC port is a broken mess. I cant play for more than 5 minutes without it crashing and I have no idea how to fix it. My PC isnt the most powerful machine in the world but I know it's way more powerful than my old PS2 so I'm stumped as to why it crashes so often. It is literally unplayable and there is zero support to try and fix this mess. Don't buy this version of the game unless you're into constant cbt.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crashes alot dont buy the game great game but crashes too much
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game keeps crashing every 15 minutes despite my many attempts to fix it (alternative settings, online advice, etc). As a result, I have never progressed further than the introduction. I am clearly not the only one, and I am shocked that not much has been done to address the issue (update, patch, etc). I had heard good things about the game itself (on other platforms I assume).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →REQUIRES A THIRD-PARTY PATCH! Don't let that discourage you. Bully isn't a bad game. It's simply a different experience from Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption. In many ways, it laid the groundwork for mechanics Rockstar would later expand on in future GTA titles. The game also features a surprisingly large variety of fun mini-games tied to school subjects like English, Math, Chemistry, Art, and Gym, which help give it its own identity. Yes, you'll likely need a community patch to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked the game don't get me wrong but this game crashes constantly even with silent patch. I had to config the frame cap and other stuff to reduce the crashing to from every 20 mins to probably around 1 crash every 1-2 hours. The reason why I don't recommend it is because you are better emulating this game or playing it on console than the steam pc version. It is very annoying to have to constantly re-do missions mid game. I recommend the game but I don't recommend buying it here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DOES NOT WORK. EVEN INSTALLING MOD/SILENTPATCH THE GAME WILL NOT RUN. AVOID AT ALL COSTS! Everything is fully up-to-date, all drivers, chipsets, even bios and settings. Following multiple guides with different things to install and set up (because you CANNOT install it and expect it to just work) NONE of these worked. Compatibility to older OS's does nothing, mods/slientpatch does nothing. Game refuses to load past main menu. Find this game on the high seas so you dont get robbed of your money…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-Kicked a midget -Gave an 8foot football player a swirly -Made a fat kid piss himself -Shot a christmas elf in the balls with a metal slingshot -Threw a rotten egg at santa -Ran over a young child with a go kart -Beat down a cheerleader with a baseball bat After such a stressful day I can come home and play a game like Bully to unwind and ignore all the backlash I'll have to deal with tomorrow...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sure I'm not the only one who only has down voted because of the port itself. The game can be great. The problem is the functionality. Too many bugs to run on a newer system to where it is not worth the trouble. If it got a full remaster for modern PC, then I'd buy it, day one. Not just for nostalgia reasons.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This feels like a forgotten gem. It might be a small world compared to other R* tittles/GTA games, but it's packed with thing to do. It's basically a PG-13 GTA game, but still funny and entertaining, with fun minigames, good fighting system, customization, sound design, music and atmosphere. Instead of another Red Dead Redemption game after GTA VI, they should restart work on another Bully game. TLDR: This game is really good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bully is one of the best projects released by Rockstar, but unfortunately, the Steam version really suffers from sudden crashes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ever since my days in high school ive always took great pleasure in hurting children. When i reached my twenties i kept getting arrested for this very reason. Then i found BULLY. I could finally indulge in my favorite passtime without fear of being arrested or punished for my actions. Wedgies, Swirlies, Punching, Kicking and exploding kids with firecrackers, This game is the only thing and the everything in my life and i simply couldn't live without it. Thank you rockstar games for creating…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(Already finished this game before, ignore my time played) ✅ One of Rockstar’s most unique settings ✅ School environment is surprisingly fun and full of personality ✅ Strong writing with classic Rockstar humor ✅ Missions are varied and never feel too long ✅ Mini‑games (classes) are actually enjoyable ✅ Soundtrack is iconic and fits the vibe perfectly ✅ World feels alive despite being small ❌ Broken and unplayable on modern Windows system. I only got it working on my secondary OS, Bazzite ❌…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warning: If you dont use a mod to fix the game it will crash about every 30 minutes ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is good but it's old so we need remastered or remake or a new completely game so rockstar has to do something
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bully those hoarders Keep video game history alive
neutral · AI labelView post →The game "Bully" better not be about bullying.
neutral · AI labelView post →Loved this game on PS2, still love it on PC, ***BUT***--- DO NOT WASTE UR MONEY BUYING THIS UNTIL ROCKSTAR FIXES THE BUGS, GLITCHES AND CRASHES THAT ARE HAPPENING BECAUSE THE GAME IS NOT FORMATTED FOR TODAYS PCs. Got through the first two chapters just fine, and then on the third chapter i can't play for more than 5mins without it crashing. Downloaded mods that were suppose to fix the problem, they did nothing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Ah, Dodgeball! How I love the sound of boys crying in the morning!" Bully is an action-adventure game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. (With Scholarship Edition developed by Rockstar New England.) Story Bully takes place in fictional town of Bullworth set in the New England region of the United States. You play as 15 year old James "Jimmy" Hopkins who after being expelled from previous schools is sent to private boarding school - Bullworth Academy. Jimmy…
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