2024 · Detective · Investigation · Conspiracy
How long isThe Operator?
4 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 3.5 hours and 5.5 hours
Pricey for its length: $3.50 an hour, dearer than 176 of 209 detective games here.
76% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
92% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
92% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
90% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
Does The Operator hold up?
Holds steady
At least 90% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 20 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of The Operator tell you?
In the first two hours76%recommend it
After that92%recommend it
8 in 100 said no: 7 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 4 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3.5 hours and 5.5 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 9,020 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 90% and 92% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
3% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 76% of those recommend it. After the window, 92% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 93% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 4 hours in.
When would you get there?
4days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 4 hours on Tuesday, November 17.
Half of its reviewers had played between 3.5 and 5.5 hours: Nov 17 to Nov 19 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in The Operator?
The filter
Second Day
12 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold First Day and never earned it.
How this is counted
98% of the players who launched The Operator hold Welcome to the FDI, its first story achievement on Steam, and 66% hold Completed the Game, its last. The steepest drop comes between First Day (92%) and Second Day (80%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Is The Operator worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
The Operator
- Steam list price, US
- $13.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 4 h
- detective game rate
- $2.00/h
- 4 h at that rate
- $8
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is The Operator worth it? Mostly.
Pricey per hour
A typical detective game gives 1.7× the hours for the money
Loved
92% recommend it after the refund windowmost detective games: 91%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $13.99, the typical player's 4 hours come to $3.50 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 92% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $3.50 an hour, The Operator costs more per hour than 176 of 209 detective games here: the typical one of 209 detective games here charges $2.00.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (detective games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play The Operator today?
On Switch and PC
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- todayPC2024
- todaySwitch2025
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines The Operator came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like The Operator?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Operator, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Operator would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
What did people here do with The Operator?
2 of 4
Copies in the libraries here: never launched it
1 in 330
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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The Rise of the Golden Idol
The Operator, but your choices matter, and three times the hours
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No Case Should Remain Unsolved
The Operator, but told in text, and pixel art
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from The Operator: a kind of game it is that The Operator is not, a feature its tags carry that The Operator's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.