urgeon Simulator 2013 is a surgical simulation video game by Tom Jackson, Jack Good, Luke Williams and James Broadley of Bossa Studios. The initial version was created in a 48-hour period for the 2013 Global Game Jam, but the developers continued and spent 48 days creating a commercial version released in January 2013. The full version was released via Steam on 19 April 2013, and GOG.com on 10 October 2013 followed by an iPad release on 7 March 2014.The game's protagonist is a surgeon named Nigel Burke, who has a placement at a fictional hospital somewhere in the United Kingdom. He carries out various operations, at first on a patient affectionately named 'Bob' by the game developers, and later operates on Bob inside a Space station orbiting Earth. Afterwards, he is contacted by an alien race by VHS tape, and operates on one of the aliens, gaining the title of 'Best Surgeon in the Universe'.