Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has described Bully as an open-world game that remains “unlike any other” two decades after its release. His comments underline the game’s unusual setting and tone: rather than Rockstar’s familiar criminal worlds, it centred on school life, adolescent rivalries and social hierarchy.

Bully was originally released in 2006 and followed pupil Jimmy Hopkins at the fictional Bullworth Academy. Although it has retained a strong fan following, Rockstar has not released a direct sequel; Houser’s reflection instead highlights the distinctiveness of a game that remains unusual within the studio’s catalogue.