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Surgeon Simulator
Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
49 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Pros: ✔️Realistic hand movements (If you're an octopus) ✔️ Stress management training ✔️ Teaches patience Cons: ❌The hand has a mind of its own 10/10 malpractice simulator.”
“Honestly dont buy it its good but impossible to play i honestly have no idea”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Ok so, mind you, I only have 47min (at the time of this review) because I used to own this game in a different Steam account, but I've been playing it way longer. I honestly don't really understand all the talk about…”
“Pretty good. I loved watching youtubers play this when i was a kid and now I'm proud to say I've done everything they have, for the most part. funny moments, goofy glitches, and pain in the ass controls. definitely…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“When done right, bad controls can make a game more enjoyable and make you laugh in a mixed emotional bag of joy and frustration. And this is coming from someone who enjoys only certain Tetris games and tries a crazy…”
“Ok so, mind you, I only have 47min (at the time of this review) because I used to own this game in a different Steam account, but I've been playing it way longer. I honestly don't really understand all the talk about…”
“Wow. The amount of people ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about the game being hard is just upsetting. It's supposed to be hard. It's supposed to have clunky controls. If you can't fathom that, then why would you buy this game in the first…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Wow. The amount of people ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about the game being hard is just upsetting. It's supposed to be hard. It's supposed to have clunky controls. If you can't fathom that, then why would you buy this game in the first…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Pretty good. I loved watching youtubers play this when i was a kid and now I'm proud to say I've done everything they have, for the most part. funny moments, goofy glitches, and pain in the ass controls. definitely…”
21 of the 103 reviews raise this · 21 of them still recommend the game.
“WHY WON'T BOBS HEART GO IN!!!!!”
“This is a fun challenging game with hard controls once you play it for a bit you'll get used to it its very fun I recommend this game”
“Now I know what the motivation of the Main Character from Hatred was... He definitely played this game before rage quitting and mowing down everything. The controls are jank, especially grabbing something that's not on…”
16 of the 103 reviews raise this · 11 of them still recommend the game.
“Pros: ✔️Realistic hand movements (If you're an octopus) ✔️ Stress management training ✔️ Teaches patience Cons: ❌The hand has a mind of its own 10/10 malpractice simulator.”
“Honestly dont buy it its good but impossible to play i honestly have no idea”
“Surgeon Simulator isn’t really about medicine. It’s more like a test of how quickly your hands stop cooperating when things get stressful. At first, you think, “This shouldn’t be too hard.” Then within seconds, you’ve…”
16 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“More enjoyable to watch on youtube than play”
“I will never truly understand what the hype was around these types of games back in the early 2010s. It is so much better to watch people play this and play itself. That’s how bad it is. 2/10”
“it only took 5 minutes for me to refund it... terrible terrible, i dont have time for that lol”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Tfw a medical replika, and a mad scientist umamusume, want you to learn autonomy through surgery games. and then you got this, surgeon simulator? more like "sue me" simulator lol. ALSO.... Bossa studios, please add a…”
“if you have a vr headset buy the vr version this one is just simply trash the ambulance surgeries are extremly easy to softlock as every item inculding the organs you need to complete will fly around and fly out of the…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“This game really looks like it'd be so much fun, and I've tried it multiple times - both on PS5, and PC. To be fair, I only tried the PC version after seeing it tagged for VR on Steam - this is NOT in any way shape or…”
“game is impossible on pc”
“I hate that game so much. It has really bad controls for mouse and keyboard. You cant hold tools the way you want and it's so anoying. Dont buy it unless you play on VR. (NEVER TOUCH THAT GAME AGAIN)”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 82.3% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“Watching people play this game when I was a child and relieving these memories now truly is an experience.”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“It let me live out my fantasy of beating terminally ill hospital patients with a hammer - 6/10.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“One of the earliest "streamer bait" games. Fun to watch, but not so fun to play. I've come back multiple times to try it out and it's just not fun.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:45 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Simulation · Funny · Physics · Comedy · Medical Sim · Indie · Dark Humor · Difficult · Puzzle · Intentionally Awkward Controls · VR · First-Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish * |
| Achievements | 123 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.surgeonsim.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP Processor: 2.0 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 7800 GT or better DirectX®: 9.0 Hard Drive: 500 MB HD space Sound: DirectX9.0 compatible sound card Additional: Requires keyboard. Touchpad supported, but mouse strongly recommended for best play experience.