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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 16,857 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
16,857
Positive
82%
Steam appid
233720
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0759K to 1.8M
units (median: 1.3M)
≈ $4.3M to $10.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
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 16,857 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
90d · low $5.60Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $5.60 to $9.99, averaging $9.08 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $5.60 on 2026-06-01.
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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 758,565 and 1,769,985 units (median 1,264,275), derived from its 16,857 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Surgeon Simulator?
- Surgeon Simulator was developed by Bossa Studios and published by Infogrames.
- When was Surgeon Simulator released?
- Surgeon Simulator was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Surgeon Simulator have on Steam?
- Surgeon Simulator has 16,857 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Surgeon Simulator within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. 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.