How many copies has The Operator sold?

indielist estimates The Operator has sold between 356,580 and 832,020 units (median 594,300), derived from its 8,490 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Operator?

The Operator was developed by Bureau 81 and published by Bureau 81.

Who published The Operator?

The Operator was published by Bureau 81, developed by Bureau 81. See Bureau 81's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Operator released?

The Operator was released in 2024.

How many reviews does The Operator have on Steam?

The Operator has 8,490 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is The Operator worth playing?

Steam players rate The Operator 92% positive across 8,490 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.

The Operator

Jul 22, 2024 Adventure $13.99

Developer Bureau 81 Publisher Bureau 81

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure gameplay anchors The Operator, a 2024 release from developer bureau-81. It has 8,312 Steam reviews with 92% positive sentiment, rated Very Positive, and is published by bureau-81 at an initial price of $13.99.

The Operator is a 2024 Adventure game developed by Bureau 81 and published by Bureau 81. On Steam it has gathered 8,490 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $14. The pairing of developer Bureau 81 with publisher Bureau 81 is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 357,000 to 832,000 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, The Operator can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

8,490

Positive

92%

Steam appid

1771980

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

357K to 832K

units (median: 594K)

≈ $2.8M to $6.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

357K median 832K

+ How is this calculated?

8,490 reviews × NB(70) = 594,300 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2024	0
price_$14	0
positive_92%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	70

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 The Operator at roughly 357,000 to 832,000 copies, with a median around 594,000, derived from its 8,490 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.7M 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 $8.39

Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.39 to $13.99. The tracked-window low was $8.39 on 2026-07-18.

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

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieSimulation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Operator sold?: indielist estimates The Operator has sold between 356,580 and 832,020 units (median 594,300), derived from its 8,490 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Operator?: The Operator was developed by Bureau 81 and published by Bureau 81.
Who published The Operator?: The Operator was published by Bureau 81, developed by Bureau 81. See Bureau 81's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Operator released?: The Operator was released in 2024.
How many reviews does The Operator have on Steam?: The Operator has 8,490 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is The Operator worth playing?: Steam players rate The Operator 92% positive across 8,490 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 The Operator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Bureau 81's other releases and Bureau 81's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The 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 The Operator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.