Surgeon Simulator
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (33%); after 5h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 79% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 17,131 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 4.4h for positive, 0.5h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (78.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (123)
story milestone ending side
- Doctor Doctor, Give Me The News Answer the phone. 100%
- Flippin' The Bird Show the patient your disdain. 77%
- Surgery Horns Express your appreciation of the metal. 70%
- Valve Actually Let Us Do This? Successfully use the VHS tape. 62%
- It's Life Jim, But Not As We Know It Perform a heart transplant. 58%
- Shh I Doctor Now Calm your patient. 52%
- Pinky Swear Make a promise with the rib cage. 45%
- Vworrrp Vworrrp Create a Time Lord. 37%
- You've Got To Be Kid'n'ey! Perform a double kidney transplant. 36%
- I Think I Got This Perform a brain transplant. 34%
- Nigel The Secretary Go about your secretarial duties. 22%
- Nine Nine Nine! Perform a heart transplant in an ambulance. 19%
- Let's Go Practice Medicine Perform an uber heart transplant. 19%
- Keyhole Surgery Completely remove the rib cage. 18%
- Socialised Medicine! Perform a heart transplant losing less than 1500ml of blood. 16%
- I Am A Genius! Create a Hammerhead shark. 15%
- When You Have No Choice But To Operate Perform a double kidney transplant in an ambulance. 15%
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Perform a brain transplant in an ambulance. 15%
- 10 Megabytes Of Raw Data Collect all floppy disks. 14%
- Eye've No Idea What I'm Doing Perform an eye transplant. 14%
- Spaaaaaaaaace Go where no surgeon has gone before. 14%
- Mother Hen Don't lose any tools out the back of the ambulance. 13%
- Practically Licensed Complete all procedures. 12%
- Trust Me, I'm Not A Dentist Perform a teeth transplant. 12%
- The Sound Of Progress My Friend! Explode a heart. 11%
- Heterochromia Give the patient heterochromia. 11%
- What Have I Done?? Lose the patient within 15 seconds. 11%
- The Goggles Do Nothing Completely smash up the goggles. 10%
- Like a hotdog down a hallway. Perform a corridor heart transplant. 9.5%
- What A Load Of Bull Listen to the surgeon rap. 9.5%
- In Space, No One Can Hear You Bleed Perform a heart transplant in space. 9.5%
- About As Politically Correct As Fur Give the patient a... scarf. 9.1%
- A New Heart Complete with either Gold or Stone Heart. 8.6%
- I Immediately Regret This Decision Electrocute and drug yourself at the same time. 8.4%
- Like A Wet Paper Towel Throw the new heart away in the surgery. 8.0%
- Zero G Kidney Perform a double kidney transplant in space. 7.8%
- Delivery Coming Through Perform a corridor double kidney transplant. 7.6%
- I Should Never Have Doubted Myself Get an A++ rating on a procedure. 7.5%
- It's Hardly Rocket Science Perform a brain transplant in space. 7.5%
- We're Going Bowling! Perform a corridor brain transplant. 7.0%
- It's In! It's In I Tell You! ...and it was going so well. 6.9%
- Enter The Code I'm not sure that was worth it... 6.7%
- Screw The Prime Directive Reveal your next patient. 6.7%
- Is it Real? Pull his hair for 3 seconds or more. 6.5%
- Don't Run With Scalpels Perform a corridor eye transplant. 6.5%
- Hammer Time Lose 50,000ml of blood using the hammer. 6.4%
- Mobile Dentistry Perform a corridor teeth transplant. 6.1%
- The Beat Of Your Heart Replace the heart with something else. 5.7%
- Go For The Optics! Perform 5.7%
- Don't Be Such A Baby, Ribs Grow Back! Completely smash up the rib cage. 5.1%
- Call Trisha Now where did you leave her number... 4.7%
- Keep Your Eyes On The Road Perform an eye transplant in an ambulance. 4.7%
- One With The Speed Bumps Perform a heart transplant in an ambulance losing less than 2000ml of blood. 4.4%
- Speedrun Time Perform a brain transplant in space in under 1 minute. 4.4%
- Brace For Surgery Perform a teeth transplant in an ambulance. 4.4%
- Performance Anxiety Perform a double kidney transplant losing less than 500ml of blood. 4.3%
- Should I Be Awake For This? Perform an uber heart transplant losing less than 1000ml of blood. 4.2%
- Grin And Bear It Remove all teeth during the teeth transplant surgery. 4.1%
- Archimedes! Hit Archimedes with a heart. 3.9%
- How Long Can You Live Without A Brain? Perform a brain transplant in under 1 minute. 3.8%
- Kali Mah! Perform a heart transplant in under 2 minutes. 3.8%
- At Least He Won't Be Peeing Blood Perform a double kidney transplant in an ambulance losing less than 600ml of blood. 3.8%
- Brainstorm Perform a brain transplant in an ambulance in under 1 minute 15 seconds. 3.6%
- Sweet Blasphemy Perform a brain transplant losing less than 600ml of blood. 3.6%
- Performance Enhancer? Complete a procedure after injecting a drug. (Must be drugged within 10 secs) 3.4%
- I'm Sure He'll Live Complete a procedure with less than 10ml of blood remaining. 3.4%
- My Eyesight Means A Lot To Me Perform an eye transplant in space. 3.3%
- I Have No Idea What I'm Doing Smash all canisters within 10 seconds. 3.2%
- Orbital Dentist Perform a teeth transplant in space. 3.2%
- Nigel You Bloody Hero Perform a brain transplant in an ambulance losing less than 1200ml of blood. 3.0%
- Those Are Some Healthy Gums Perform a teeth transplant losing less than 500ml of blood. 3.0%
- Life's Too Short Perform a heart transplant in an ambulance in under 2 minutes 30 seconds. 2.9%
- We're Going On An Adventure! Take your radio with you. 2.9%
- You're Free Now Set the Gobbleshaft free. 2.9%
- Moooooo Heart of a Cow. 2.8%
- Butter Fingers Lose every organ out the back of the ambulance during the heart transplant. 2.8%
- You Can't Handle The Tooth! Complete the tooth transplant only removing the rotten teeth. 2.8%
- Like An Animal Throw everything on to the floor in the kidney transplant surgery. 2.8%
- Surgetricity Complete a procedure after being electrocuted. (Must be electrocuted within 10 secs) 2.8%
- Frikkin' Lasers Complete a procedure using only the surgical laser. 2.7%
- And They Said It Was Impossible! Complete a procedure after being drugged and electrocuted. (Must be afflicted within 20 secs) 2.5%
- Don't In-Test My Patience Perform a double kidney transplant in under 2 minutes 50 seconds. 2.4%
- First Success Complete an alien organ transplant. 2.4%
- Don't Even Need A Bucket Perform a corridor heart transplant losing less than 1000ml of blood 2.3%
- A Surgeon's Merit Is Based On Speed Perform a double kidney transplant in an ambulance in under 3 minutes. 2.3%
- Open Really Wide Perform a corridor teeth transplant losing less than 600ml of blood 2.3%
- That's How I Lost My Medical License Perform an uber heart transplant in under 2 minutes 30 seconds. 2.3%
- Won't Even Need Glasses! Perform a corridor eye transplant losing less than 1000ml of blood 2.2%
- No More Worse Than Shampoo Perform an eye transplant losing less than 600ml of blood. 2.2%
- Lumberjack Cut out the eyes using the surgical axe. 2.2%
- Let's See That Sick Filth Again Perform a 180° spoon flip. 2.2%
- Best Surgeon In The Universe Complete all 6 secret transplants. 2.2%
- Now I Can Reach Pick the nose (either nostril) with little fingers. 2.0%
- Pink Eye Vodka to the eye. 2.0%
- Best Surgeon In The World Get an A++ rating on all procedures. 2.0%
- Precision Instrument Time Perform a brain transplant in space losing less than 600ml of blood. 2.0%
- Just Enough To Clog The Gravity Engine Perform a heart transplant in space losing less than 400ml of blood. 2.0%
- The Surgery Of The Future Perform a double kidney transplant in space losing less than 400ml of blood. 2.0%
- Tunnel Vision Perform a corridor double kidney transplant losing less than 600ml of blood 1.9%
- Nothing But Skull Complete a brain transplant by throwing it in. 1.9%
- There Is Nothing More To Teach... Completed every achievement. Now go save lives! 1.9%
- No Time To Admire The View Perform a heart transplant in space in under 1 minute 40 seconds. 1.9%
- Stomach O'Clock Perform a double kidney transplant in space in under 2 minutes. 1.9%
- No Need To Curb Stomp Him Perform a teeth transplant in an ambulance losing less than 600ml of blood. 1.8%
- Trumsplant Tower + Steak + Vodka in main cavity. 1.7%
- The Brains Of The Operation Perform a corridor brain transplant losing less than 750ml of blood. 1.7%
- Blink And You'll Miss It Perform an eye transplant in under 2 minutes. 1.7%
- I Can't Work Under These Conditions! Perform a corridor heart transplant in under 2 minutes and 30 seconds. 1.7%
- Maintained Healthy Gums At Least Perform a teeth transplant in space losing less than 500ml of blood. 1.7%
- You May Feel A Light Tapping Perform a teeth transplant in under 2 minutes. 1.7%
- Little Wet Willy Wet Willy with little pinky. 1.5%
- The Speed Of A Neuron Perform a corridor brain transplant in under 1 minute 30 seconds. 1.5%
- I Can See For Miles... Per Hour Perform an eye transplant in an ambulance in under 1 minute and 40 seconds. 1.5%
- At Worst, You're Now Colourblind Perform an eye transplant in an ambulance losing less than 700ml of blood. 1.5%
- Blinding Speed Surgery Perform a corridor eye transplant in under 2 minutes and 30 seconds. 1.5%
- Right Tools At The Right Time Perform a corridor double kidney transplant in under 2 minutes and 40 seconds. 1.5%
- Eye Of The Space Storm Perform an eye transplant in space in under 2 minutes 20 seconds. 1.5%
- Expert Space Stalker Perform an eye transplant in space losing less than 700ml of blood. 1.5%
- The Tooth Is Out There Perform a teeth transplant in space in under 2 minutes. 1.5%
- Not The Time Or Place For Precision Perform a teeth transplant in an ambulance in under 2 minutes and 15 seconds. 1.5%
- Keep Fidgeting To A Minimum Perform a corridor teeth transplant in under 2 minutes and 20 seconds. 1.5%
- A++ is Trumperific Get A++ rating with either Gold or Stone Heart. 1.3%
- A Small Loan From My Father Complete a successful operation that costs more than $1,000,000.00. 1.1%