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Action-simulation game Surgeon Simulator, released in 2013, offers a physics-based medical simulation. With over 16,834 Steam reviews averaging 82% positive, this title from Bossa Studios was published by Infogrames.
Overview
Surgeon Simulator is a 2013 Action game developed by Bossa Studios and published by Infogrames. On Steam it has gathered 16,875 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Bossa Studios with publisher Infogrames 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 759,000 to 1.8 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, Surgeon Simulator can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
16,875
Positive
82%
Steam appid
233720
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0759K to 1.8M
units (median: 1.3M)
≈ $4.3M to $10.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 75 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Surgeon Simulator at roughly 759,000 to 1.8 million copies, with a median around 1.3 million, derived from its 16,875 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.2M 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
50 observed days · window low $0.99Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $0.99 on 2026-07-14.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
SimulationFunnyPhysicsComedyMedical SimIndieDark HumorDifficultPuzzleIntentionally Awkward ControlsVRFirst-PersonCasualAliensSingleplayerDarkActionBloodGoreGreat Soundtrack
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Surgeon Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Surgeon Simulator has sold between 759,375 and 1,771,875 units (median 1,265,625), derived from its 16,875 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Surgeon Simulator?
- Surgeon Simulator was developed by Bossa Studios and published by Infogrames.
- Who published Surgeon Simulator?
- Surgeon Simulator was published by Infogrames, developed by Bossa Studios. See Infogrames's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Surgeon Simulator released?
- Surgeon Simulator was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Surgeon Simulator have on Steam?
- Surgeon Simulator has 16,875 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Surgeon Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate Surgeon Simulator 82% positive across 16,875 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Surgeon Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as BONEWORKS, Octodad: Dadliest Catch, People Playground, Who's Your Daddy?!, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Bossa Studios's other releases and Infogrames's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Surgeon Simulator 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 Surgeon Simulator 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.
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