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Action indie game Operation: Harsh Doorstop launched in 2023, developed and self-published by drakeling-labs. It has 20,801 Steam reviews, with 78% positive feedback and an overall Mostly Positive rating.
Overview
Operation: Harsh Doorstop is a 2023 Action game developed by Drakeling Labs, who self-published it. It is tracked in indielist's catalog of indie Action titles alongside its developer and publisher relationships. The game is available on windows, and is free to play. As a self-published Action project, Operation: Harsh Doorstop sits among the independent releases indielist tracks where the developer Drakeling Labs retained both creative and commercial control, a path many indie studios weigh against signing with a publisher. Because Operation: Harsh Doorstop is free to play, indielist does not convert its review count into paid copies or revenue; this page reports reception and catalog facts instead. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Operation: Harsh Doorstop can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and public reception.
Reviews
0
Positive
78%
Steam appid
736590
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Paid sales estimate unavailable
This game is free to play. Steam reviews measure reception, not paid copies, so indielist does not publish unit-sales or revenue estimates for it.
Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionCasualIndieSimulationStrategyFree To PlayEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- Is Operation: Harsh Doorstop free to play?
- Yes. Operation: Harsh Doorstop is free to play, so indielist reports its Steam reviews and catalog data without publishing paid-copy or revenue estimates.
- Who developed Operation: Harsh Doorstop?
- Operation: Harsh Doorstop was developed by Drakeling Labs and is self-published.
- When was Operation: Harsh Doorstop released?
- Operation: Harsh Doorstop was released in 2023.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Operation: Harsh Doorstop can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Drakeling Labs's other releases are one click away, letting players and analysts see where Operation: Harsh Doorstop sits among the studio's body of work without a publisher in the loop. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Operation: Harsh Doorstop page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and received, 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 catalog figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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