
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 54/day in the week to Jul 18 → 27.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Sums Steam only; GOG, Epic, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $13.99 | 8.5Kreviews | 91% | — | $4.2M |
| $9.09−35% | 40ratings | 72% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
Themes across 913 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
The opening tutorial had me thrilled. The aesthetic and potential seemed very high. I was excited to use these systems to solve some cases. Unfortunately, the game is more interested in telling a story than building on gameplay principles. The story is...fine. It takes some big swings, but most of them are heavily foreshadowed and easy to predict. I wish this game had spent more time filling out the 'digital detective' gameplay suite and puzzles. I thought I'd found another Hypnospace Outlaw, Obra Dinn, or Roottrees. But it's closer to a visual novel than a detective game.
What an incredible game. Not too hard but makes you think and you get very attached to each character
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian*languages with full audio support
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 915 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
10/10! Absolut abgefahrenes Erlebnis. Man spielt einen Operator im Backend, am Büro vor dem PC, der Agents draußen im Einsatz begleitet. Die Handlung mit den Fällen hängt zusammen und birgt so einige krasse Überraschungen. Ich bin eigentlich kein großer Krimi und Thriller-Fan, aber das hier hat mich richtig gepackt. Aus Spoilergründen kann man kaum etwas von der Handlung verraten, obwohl man am liebsten herausplatzen möchte, was schon wieder krasses im Game passiert ist. Was zeichnet The Operator aus? - Sehr stark immersiv. Und das trotz der eingeschränkten Spielweise am Desktop. Als eine Person wegen meinem Versagen starb, hatte ich richtig Schuldgefühle. - Gänsehautmomente am laufenden Band. - Kreative Spielidee. - Einige nette Kopfnüsse beim Finden von Zusammenhängen der Fälle. - Starke (englische) Sprecher. - Dichte, atmosphärische Musik. Einziger Kritikpunkt: Das Erlebnis endet schon nach rund 5 Stunden. Es ist also ein recht kurzes "Spiel" (wobei ich hier bewusst besser vom Erlebnis spreche, da The Operator weniger ein klassisches Videospiel ist). Ich denke auch nicht, dass man es noch einmal spielen kann bzw. denke nicht, dass sich die Handlung ändert; wobei es ein, zwei Situationen gibt, die möglicherweise den Verlauf ändern könnten (so wie die Person, die sterben musste wegen meines Versagens). Vielleicht ändert sich dann etwas im Verlauf? Keine Ahnung. Aber ein zweiter Durchgang wäre eh nicht mehr spannend, weil die großartigen Schockmomente und spannenden Wendungen nicht mehr so wirken. Ich weiß nicht, ob es DLCs mit weiteren Geschichten gibt. Hier wäre das echt großartig. Aber diese Geschichte im Basegame ist in sich abgeschlossen. Zwar kurz, aber diese fünf Stunden hatten es echt in sich! Es hat sich gelohnt, The Operator zu kaufen. Das war eine der besten Spielerlebnisse der letzten zwei Jahre für mich. Wenn du mal Lust hast auf etwas anderes als die ständigen Standard-Games wie Crimson Desert, Starfield, Ubisoft, Elden Ring, blabla, wo man ja letztlich eh immer das gleiche tut, durch eine große Open World hastet, dümmlichen Quests mit meistens wenig Sinn hinterherjagt, Gegner abschießt oder mit Schwert und Magie bekämpft, dann versuch es mal mit The Operator. Es ist eines der kreativsten Spielerlebnisse, die ich kenne und hat ein völlig anderes Spielkonzept als fast alle anderen Games. The Operator zeigt auch, dass Spiele eben NICHT krasse Grafik haben müssen, um krass immersiv und spannend zu sein, sondern simuliert durch einen einfachen PC-Desk von 1992 eine ultraspannende Erfahrung. Gut gemacht, lieber Entwickler! Echt großes Lob, falls du das liest!
[h2]The Operator[/h2] There's a specific kind of satisfaction in being handed a suite of official-looking software and told to go find the truth. The Operator gets that feeling exactly right. You sit at your FDI terminal running facial recognition, pulling phone records, cross-referencing databases, and matching evidence, and the tools are just fiddly and authentic enough that every solved case feels like [i]you[/i] cracked it rather than the game waving you through. Nothing lands harder than dragging two pieces of evidence together on a hunch and watching the system confirm you were right. What surprised me is how well the story holds it all up. The FMV performances could have been cheesy but they're played straight enough to sell a conspiracy that keeps widening in ways I didn't see coming, and the whole thing is wrapped in a moody, convincingly bureaucratic atmosphere that makes a desk job feel tense. It's not a long game, but it's a tight one, and it never overstays its welcome. [b]Recommended[/b], especially if you like detective work that actually makes you think instead of just clicking the obvious next thing.
很有意思!! 就是结局只有一个感觉不太ok。这种感觉可以出多结局。 希望速速出后续!!解密部分比较少吧,主要是要看。拆炸弹的地方是最难的...文字太多了,还有时间,紧张紧张。 [spoiler]结局居然基本上是全体阵亡,那个组织也太——过于厉害了[/spoiler]
非常不错,就是体量太小,时长是我忘记关闭游戏了。唯一不方便的是无法自己选择章节存档。太喜欢每章之间的过场动画了, [spoiler]后面看实时监控,从电车、电视机、猫咪、酒瓶和过场动画中的声音对上时,简直毛骨悚然,被监控的是“我”! [/spoiler] 线索获取很有意思,低画质的视频、图片很有时代感。拆炸弹和使用检测仪器的说明手册也做得很不错,就像真的一样。
uses ai. my fault for not seeing that requirement before getting the game. thank god i only got it for a dollar. support real artists
好玩!查资料翻监控找线索的感觉挺有趣的,剧情也挺吸引人的。解谜不是很多 唯一的问题就是太短了😭完全没玩够
I wish I liked this more. This is not a game about being an FBI operator, solving cases with little guidance. This is a standard conspiracy game that pretends to have options when it is all very railroaded. The game is: 5% cool deductive work, 70% listening to people re-explain what is happening in case you quit and reloaded the game after each day 25% watching a black screen and listening to someone walking home I like the controls, as simple as they are. But I am shocked to see people compare this to anything like Obra Dinn or Case of the Golden Idol. If you have are ok with a corny story, lots of reading and listening (not detective work, just fluff), and one of the worst time-sensitive, feel-bad, mini games if seen in a game like this, then you might actually enjoy your time. This is a $5 game on sale if you have exhausted the other detective games on Steam.
THIS IS THE BEST STORY INTERACTIVE GAME I EVER PLAYED. Thanks For This Game
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