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Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition

The most critically acclaimed, one-handed, clumsy, bumbling, surgery simulation game has now arrived on PS4! Players use their controllers to operate one of Doctor Nigel Burke’s flailing arms, in an attempt to…

67 12 August 2014 ESRB T

Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition is an indie developed by Bossa Studios, released 12 August 2014 on PlayStation 4.

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What Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition is

Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition is an indie game developed by Bossa Studios and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4 only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The most critically acclaimed, one-handed, clumsy, bumbling, surgery simulation game has now arrived on PS4! Players use their controllers to operate one of Doctor Nigel Burke’s flailing arms, in an attempt to perform life-saving surgery on his peaceful and trusting patient, Bob. Includes the exclusive PS4 multiplayer offline co-op mode. Two controllers, two hands... still one poor Bob!
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition launched on 12 August 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux and Metro Redux. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Metro Redux.

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When did Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition come out?
Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition was released on 12 August 2014 for PlayStation 4.

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