How do players who really played Surgeon Simulator 2 rate it? TrueGG Rating 48.9%

Release date: Sep 2, 2021 Data as of 2026-10-17 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it higher than Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks. Recent reviews are falling.

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗

48.9%

▲ +6.8 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 2+ hours (all time) · 1,696 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 48.9%
Steam overall: 42.2%
Japanese, all time: —

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 36.0% of all reviews. Their positive share is 30.2%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (2h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (all time). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	24.7%	14.3%	611
1–2 h	39.8%	50.0%	344
2–5 h	50.7%	28.6%	917
5–10 h	46.5%	100.0%	544
10–20 h	50.6%	0.0%	178
20–50 h	38.5%	—	39
50–100 h	30.0%	—	10
100–200 h	50.0%	—	6
200+ h	50.0%	0.0%	2

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 2+ hours. 2% had 20+ hours and 0% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Surgeon Simulator 2 has a TrueGG Rating of 48.9%, based on all-time reviews from players with 2+ hours (1,696 reviews) because recent reviews are few. Steam's overall rating is 42.2%.

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 36% of the total, with 30% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.

Positive reviews praise how fun it feels.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (43.3% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-17.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).

− Most mentioned complaints

No standout topics

+ What players praise

Fun & feel22% of positive reviews (15% of negative)

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Counted from 315 recent negative and 306 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

Metric	Positive	Scope
Official Steam rating	42.2%	All time, all languages · 2,632 reviews
Adjusted rating	43.3%	Weighted by trust (95% range 42.0%–44.5%), +1.1pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	28.6%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (−13.6pt vs overall) · 21 reviews · Few reviews; indicative only

Show the positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

Condition	Positive reviews	Negative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review	24%	44%
Very short text	41%	22%
Key activated outside Steam	20%	26%
Received for free	3%	1%
Owns very few games	6%	8%
Over 100 reviews written	6%	4%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.71	0.68

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 4.1 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-17

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative▨ Negative spike

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.Shaded months were detected as concentrated waves of negative reviews (2024-10).Detection rule

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2021-09	195	119	62.1%
2021-10	38	11	77.6%
2021-11	100	13	88.5%
2021-12	20	10	66.7%
2022-01	21	13	61.8%
2022-02	13	5	72.2%
2022-03	17	6	73.9%
2022-04	63	30	67.7%
2022-05	9	2	81.8%
2022-06	15	8	65.2%
2022-07	18	3	85.7%
2022-08	9	0	100.0%
2022-09	9	8	52.9%
2022-10	14	5	73.7%
2022-11	17	3	85.0%
2022-12	17	8	68.0%
2023-01	11	8	57.9%
2023-02	16	2	88.9%
2023-03	11	3	78.6%
2023-04	15	7	68.2%
2023-05	9	7	56.3%
2023-06	20	9	69.0%
2023-07	14	4	77.8%
2023-08	25	5	83.3%
2023-09	12	4	75.0%
2023-10	6	6	50.0%
2023-11	41	8	83.7%
2023-12	41	36	53.2%
2024-01	31	20	60.8%
2024-02	18	8	69.2%
2024-03	27	10	73.0%
2024-04	22	14	61.1%
2024-05	23	50	31.5%
2024-06	10	7	58.8%
2024-07	14	5	73.7%
2024-08	10	8	55.6%
2024-09	6	31	16.2%
2024-10	8	69	10.4%
2024-11	4	49	7.5%
2024-12	11	60	15.5%
2025-01	3	50	5.7%
2025-02	6	46	11.5%
2025-03	11	48	18.6%
2025-04	7	21	25.0%
2025-05	6	42	12.5%
2025-06	4	24	14.3%
2025-07	3	16	15.8%
2025-08	1	22	4.3%
2025-09	4	25	13.8%
2025-10	3	25	10.7%
2025-11	2	24	7.7%
2025-12	4	18	18.2%
2026-01	7	23	23.3%
2026-02	2	10	16.7%
2026-03	6	18	25.0%
2026-04	7	37	15.9%
2026-05	3	11	21.4%
2026-06	1	19	5.0%
2026-07	4	15	21.1%
2026-08	5	4	55.6%
2026-09	6	15	28.6%
2026-10	4	9	30.8%

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Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-17	0	0
2026-09-18	0	0
2026-09-19	1	0
2026-09-20	0	0
2026-09-21	0	0
2026-09-22	1	2
2026-09-23	0	6
2026-09-24	0	0
2026-09-25	3	1
2026-09-26	0	0
2026-09-27	0	1
2026-09-28	0	0
2026-09-29	0	1
2026-09-30	0	2
2026-10-01	0	0
2026-10-02	0	2
2026-10-03	1	1
2026-10-04	1	2
2026-10-05	0	2
2026-10-06	0	0
2026-10-07	0	1
2026-10-08	1	1
2026-10-09	0	0
2026-10-10	0	0
2026-10-11	0	0
2026-10-12	0	0
2026-10-13	0	0
2026-10-14	0	0
2026-10-15	0	0
2026-10-16	1	0