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Surgeon Simulator – Simulation Game Review
Surgeon Simulator is a Simulation/Roleplaying/Entertainment game from Infogrames LLC, first launched in 13th March 2014.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,059+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Surgeon Simulator Stand Out
You are the surgeon. Bob is the victim. Do your worst!
More difficult than real surgery! Can you rise to the challenge?
Take urgent care of the world's unluckiest patient, Bob, with your very own shaky hands. As the would-be surgeon Nigel Burke, perform all kinds of crazy surgeries to try to save his life — or fail hilariously in the process while poor Bob… Well, dies.
Join the ranks of more than three million players who butchered Bob for the amusement of 250 million people who watched the failed surgeries on YouTube, now from the comfort of your awesome iPhone / iPad, anytime, anywhere. Hospitals don't get any better than this, really.
- Over 3 Million units sold Worldwide!
- No. 1 Paid App on App Store Charts – March 2017
- BAFTA 2014 Nominee: Strategy and Simulation
- Mobile Entertainment Awards 2014: Best Design
- Develop 2013 Awards Nominee: Best New IP
"Some of the most fun you can have screwing up"
- IGN
"The world's hardest game"
- redbull.com
"Bob! Booooob! Don't die on me, Bob!"
- PewDiePie
"Where's the %$£%$@£ heart?!? It's gone! It's on the floor now, and I don't think the 5 seconds rule apply, dude!"
- RoosterTeeth
"Shhhhh. I Doctor Now."
- Anonymous meme creator. Awesome work, mate! You should have signed it, though…
In this spiffy version of the classic game, you'll find:
- Six Alien Autopsy transplants, featuring organs you’ve never heard of (and will barely be able to pronounce);
- The trusty Heart and Double-Kidney transplants;
- Two new surgeries: Give Bob a smile with Teeth transplant, and a great look with Eyes transplant;
- Feeling lucky? Abandon the Operation Theatre and try your hand on a moving trolley in the hospital corridors;
- Brand-new control system: gone is Nigel's left arm, in are your nimble fingers;
- More than 50 new achievements to unlock and prove you rule;
- Tons more we won't tell you so we don't spoil the surprise;
- Multiplayer. Show your friends who's the boss. It's a good day to save lives.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Surgeon Simulator is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th March 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Hey there surgeons!
You asked and we delivered! With this new update, we wanted to focus on the online multiplayer features of the game and make sure to deliver the best experience possible.
- We improved the way matchmaking works. You can now find more matches (no no, not the dating website match!).
Much love,
Bossa xoxoxox
Download & Availability
Surgeon Simulator is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Surgeon Simulator on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We feel like its a copy of something its good but like meh.
Love this game but would be nice to adjust the screen to fit the new iphones.
We love this game its all up to strategy and love that great game.
The game is great but can you please support controller and it will be more fun.
We love the game a bunch, challenging, but still fun. The thing is, the game has not had an update in 5 YEARS. Its really needs an update, so yah people who completed the game years ago, will come back once again.
When ze patient woke up, all but his ubercharged heart was missing, and ze doctor was never heared again! Zats how we lost our medical license. ADD THE CROSSOVER.
Please add a button to cut off heart rate its annoying us.
Practice mode and more gore and blood we paid for this game for that so please please do that our iPad doesnt have a lot of space but you might not read this but please we hope you do.
Okay so we just tried out for the corridor heart transplant, and, from experience we can tell you, it is near impossible! They should have things on the sides of bob to hold all of the tools. And if this is not possible, how about… Something. Something that will make it just the taddest bit doable. This game is fun though.
We love this game but the other platforms have different places to do the surgery for example the back of an ambulance or in a space station and it also has more surgeries. We have the Nintendo switch version but its impossible to control we just want those features on the mobile version where we can actually know whats going on.
Ok,we really like this game and it is very well made but can you remove the thing on mobile that it zooms out sometimes in the teeth transplant we do not like that at all it really ruins our aim and we hate it and the green syringe it wont let us hold it sometimes and the drill when we try to pick it up the drill flies off the screen and cant pick it up and we would like it if you could pick up items off the floor. And the achievements are gone when you leave the app Im just saying we would like those improvements but other than that really awesome game.
First, please add brain surgery to mobile, and also space mode please.
Ive had this game for a while and we love it! We love everything about it and is a very fun experience for everyone. What Id REALLY like to see is the brain transplant. Thatd be pretty cool. Thanks much for making such a great game well worth the buy we tell you what. Best game 10/10.
We really really wish surgeon simulator 2 came on App Store.
But you seriously need to update its 3 years without an update maybe some brain surgery.
Ok because this game is dead we dont expect anyone to see this, but for all the people that keep complaining about the controls, the controls are supposed to be bad! On Pc where the game was originally released the controls are just as hard to use. The game is supposed to be frustrating and make you laugh, not be an exact replica of giving someone surgery.
The game needs more operations and more things to do we did them all in 10 minutes easily we recommend adding more stages but besides that the game was da best.
This is a great game and all, but now since iOS 13 has controller support and surgeon sim is on ps4 ( idk about Xbox ) if they could add controller support so you wouldnt have to play with your fingers.
The game is great, but Im having trouble getting the stomach thing out of the body on the heart transplant. Im using an iPhone 6.
We love this game and all its content but we are just disappointed that it does not have the tf2 surgery we saw on PC and VR surgeon simulator. Other than that the game is fantastic and we recommend it.
This game is truly awful. Mechanics, achievements, all of it. Simply awful.
The first time Brain Transplant iPad Please Im So Get Brain Transplant [iPad].
WHY DID YOU MOT COME OUT WITH THIS GAME EARLYER.
Some people are saying how stupid the controls are when that is the literal meaning of the game its a challenge so dont listen to the people who are just very babies just get the controls are apart of the challenge of the game.
We havent played this game in a long time its a very nice game and it scared the crap out of us when we called the phone number on the phone and it says if youre in an emergency call 911.
We like it, the only time we would play a game mainly on ipad.
Hello, our name is Matthew and we were asking in regard to knowing when the next upgrade might us or have you just completely abandoned this even though it has been very successful. With and update and proper advertisement we could really see this app flourishing and becoming very popular again.
We just want you to know that if good.
This game is really fun if youre trying to be funny or serious it makes it 20 times funnier because they controls are funny and then you end up doing something stupid.
Our son bought this on our phone several years ago, now he is unable to download it for free despite having family sharing on.
Love this game, add the Uber heart transplant.
Add more transplants and ambulance mode. It is fun.
It is hard to play it but it is fun.
The game is really fun but maybe add more levels and more special ones.
We love this game we want to get this game but one problem we want the brain surgery and team fortress one too why because we will love more of this.
Its a great game but please update it and we cant get past the eye surgery no matter how many time we try.
Our name is Parker Thomas Garcia and we love this gameAnd this is not a joke we are not a creator we really am a kid and we love this game its so fun to play it it makes it so hard but we love it what it is so hard its like makes it so fun and hes like oh we wanna kill person oh this guy is funny oh youre losing doors are all good thank you we love you we love control is this youre so funny even if it did everybody else says its terrible and our dad so we just wasted our money we still love this game is awesome well we love this game we love this.
Fun game Not realistic Heats up your phone …But we still to end it.
We love this game we think its ours.
We played it and its one of the best games ever.
Can you pls add brain surgery and different modes like ambulance and space modes all so can you add the dlc surgerys tf2 . Trump.
Its an amazing game but its hard to do it on iPad.
This is one of our favorite games on our iPad. We like the challenge that it gives us. Keep up the great work.
This is a fun and weird game to play.
There is One thing that doesnt make sense in this game this is all Im going to talk about is that when youre doing the kidney transplant that your patient is on her back but in real life they would be on their stomach and you have to go through the back that is all.
We have had this game ever since it was released on mobile and we havent deleted yet:) This is our favorite game on the App Store, the controls are much easier on mobile than pc and console but that doesnt take away the fun of taking peoples eyeballs out and playing with a jiggly liver lol. This is a very well made game and it would be even greater if more fun operations were added such as a brain transplant or something lol. Very entertaining game, we love it.
We havent had soo much fun in a long time Im 12 turning 13 in 2019 and we havent laughed soo much since like 5 or 6 dont remember but to the people that say its hard to play it cause of the controls its suppose to be like that thats what makes it fun.
We were so excited when we saw this game was on the App Store since we couldnt get it on steam or ps4.
This game is very fun and challenging but we want more surgerys and more secrets keep it up.
We love this game but could you update the app to fill the entire screen on the iPhone x.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5
- Size: 491.09 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Infogrames LLC
Last updated: 27th March 2017 | Genre: Simulation, Roleplaying | Developer: Infogrames LLC