911 Operator
Worth it · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 6.3h
- Value
- $0.47/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 Mb, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Answer incoming calls and react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / police / ambulances, or sometimes - just ignore the call. Play on ANY CITY in the world!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in January 2020. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 104 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 80 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 65 at list, 79 today.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Plague Inc: Evolved ($14.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Two Point Campus ($29.99, scores 69).
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. A 20-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 604 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 2,269 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6.3 hours; clearing it takes 21, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
78% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 6.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
87 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
As someone who has done 911 dispatch, the only thing that is truly missing are the insanely overweight tobacco spitting coworkers. Honorable mention to the village bicycle coworker as well
Pretty obsessed with this one. I love the storylines and I admitt I learned quite a few things that I didn't knew about before. So this game is even, dare I say, educational. Voice acting is fantastic and I love to play this one casually. 11 outta 10, one of my favorite casual games.
This game Is not very well made, it gets repetitive after 20-30 min, the city system sucks. The one good thing about this game is the voice acting, the voice acting is really good. For $15 don't buy!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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911 Operator scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/503560/911-operatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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