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Operation: Harsh Doorstop

Drakeling Labs · 2023-02-15

Steam

ActionCasualIndieSimulationStrategyFree To PlayEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Feb 15, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Operation: Harsh Doorstop is the ultimate, free to play, tactical shooter sandbox. Play singleplayer, multiplayer, or co-op modes and explore thousands of community-created maps, weapons, and vehicles via the Steam Workshop. Created by developers of the cancelled Project Reality 2 project.

Operation: Harsh Doorstop is an Action, Casual, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2023, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (78% of 20740 reviews).

112
playing now
78%
positive of 21k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

112 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Operation: Harsh Doorstop trailer thumbnail

Operation: Harsh Doorstop v0.14 Update Trailer

≈107,503 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 112 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,763 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~220/week).
  • · Review velocity up 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 3% of 27,535 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.8k1.8k20232026Week of 2023-02-01: 1,810 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1,036 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1,073 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 575 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 477 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 167 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 419 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 606 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 163 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 406 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 125 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 383 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 284 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 361 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,170 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 575 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 168 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 621 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 181 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 568 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 156 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 646 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 140 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 598 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 122 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 533 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 516 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 415 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 494 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 328 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 436 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 416 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 342 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 240 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 400 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 25 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

325552026-09-14 20:00 — 192 players2026-09-16 04:00 — 75 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 196 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 238 players2026-09-20 02:00 — 96 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 139 players2026-09-22 18:00 — 212 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 81 players2026-09-25 09:00 — 109 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 250 players2026-09-28 00:00 — 98 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 76 players2026-09-30 15:00 — 211 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 112 players2026-10-03 06:00 — 88 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 228 players2026-10-05 21:00 — 114 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 56 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 249 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 193 players2026-10-11 03:00 — 93 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 127 players2026-10-13 19:00 — 191 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 112 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
914104Feb 2023Aug 2026Feb 2023 — avg 914 · peak 1,699Apr 2023 — avg 311 · peak 618Jun 2023 — avg 356 · peak 612Aug 2023 — avg 293 · peak 483Oct 2023 — avg 234 · peak 481Dec 2023 — avg 302 · peak 813Feb 2024 — avg 517 · peak 1,257Apr 2024 — avg 489 · peak 1,127Jun 2024 — avg 429 · peak 774Aug 2024 — avg 372 · peak 597Oct 2024 — avg 303 · peak 592Dec 2024 — avg 297 · peak 691Feb 2025 — avg 315 · peak 583Apr 2025 — avg 211 · peak 411Jun 2025 — avg 153 · peak 271Aug 2025 — avg 135 · peak 238Oct 2025 — avg 105 · peak 218Dec 2025 — avg 104 · peak 222Feb 2026 — avg 147 · peak 359Apr 2026 — avg 202 · peak 484Jun 2026 — avg 183 · peak 364Aug 2026 — avg 168 · peak 311
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam WorkshopIncludes level editorFamily Sharing6 DLC

Post-launch support: 6 DLC released, first 2023-02-15, latest 2025-03-30 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSWarActionCasualShooterWargameMilitaryStrategyTacticalRealistic

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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