OPERATOR
Skip · Shooter · 2023 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $13.99.
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($13.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($11.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 1060 (minimum 4GB VRAM), 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
In OPERATOR, you will play as an elite Tier 1 operator undergoing dangerous clandestine operations all over the globe. With a strategic, measured, and unforgiving style of gameplay. You are the tactical advantage, Good luck.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 3 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart. Today's $13.99 at 30 percent off still sits 40 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Operation: Harsh Doorstop (free, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare ($24.99, scores 14).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 68 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 54 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 9 of the 68 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 1,171 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
3 years after release, 527 people were playing it when we last checked, on Sep 26, 07:47 UTC.
The drop-off
67% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
527 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 07:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
OPERATOR scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1913370/operatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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