How many copies has OPERATOR sold?

indielist estimates OPERATOR has sold between 264,132 and 616,308 units (median 440,220), derived from its 7,337 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published OPERATOR?

OPERATOR was published by VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD, developed by VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD. See VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does OPERATOR have on Steam?

OPERATOR has 7,337 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.

Is OPERATOR worth playing?

Steam players rate OPERATOR 86% positive across 7,337 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.

OPERATOR

Aug 1, 2023 Action $19.99

Developer VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD Publisher VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action shooter with simulation and realistic tags, OPERATOR launched in Early Access in 2023. It has 6,235 Steam reviews at 85% positive, listed as mostly positive, and is developed and self-published by Vector Interactive Pty Ltd at an initial price of $19.99.

OPERATOR is a 2023 Action game developed by VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD and published by VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD. On Steam it has gathered 7,337 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD with publisher VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD 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 264,000 to 616,000 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, OPERATOR can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

7,337

Positive

86%

Steam appid

1913370

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

264K to 616K

units (median: 440K)

≈ $3.0M to $7.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

264K median 616K

+ How is this calculated?

7,337 reviews × NB(60) = 440,220 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$20	0
positive_86%	+10
final NB	60

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 OPERATOR at roughly 264,000 to 616,000 copies, with a median around 440,000, derived from its 7,337 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.0M 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

51 observed days · window low $13.39

Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $13.39 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $13.39 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has OPERATOR sold?: indielist estimates OPERATOR has sold between 264,132 and 616,308 units (median 440,220), derived from its 7,337 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed OPERATOR?: OPERATOR was developed by VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD and published by VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD.
Who published OPERATOR?: OPERATOR was published by VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD, developed by VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD. See VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was OPERATOR released?: OPERATOR was released in 2023.
How many reviews does OPERATOR have on Steam?: OPERATOR has 7,337 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Is OPERATOR worth playing?: Steam players rate OPERATOR 86% positive across 7,337 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.

Players looking for games like OPERATOR can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Hell Let Loose, GROUND BRANCH, War of Rights, Call to Arms, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD's other releases and VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where OPERATOR 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 OPERATOR 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.