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Operation: Tango cover art

Operation: Tango

Clever Plays · Team17 · 2021-06-01

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasual

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

Releases: Jul 01, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Jun 01, 2021 (Xbox One), Jun 01, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Jun 01, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Jun 01, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 01, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

It takes two to save the world in this cooperative spy adventure. Pair up with a friend as Agent or Hacker—with only your voices to connect you—and work together to bring a hi-tech global menace to its knees. Now with a FREE CONTENT UPDATE!

Operation: Tango is an Adventure, Casual game released in 2021, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 8899 reviews).

50
playing now
86%
positive of 8.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (31 ratings)
4.08★
PlayStation Store rating (914 ratings)
5h
to beat · rushed 5h · completionist 5h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

50 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Operation: Tango is a cooperative first-person video game, created by the Canadian studio Clever Plays. Two players take control of either an Agent or a Hacker and must work together to solve puzzles to bring down a hi-tech global menace.

Trailer

Operation: Tango trailer thumbnail

Operation: Tango - Launch Trailer | PS5, PS4

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 50 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 479 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~60/week).
  • · Review velocity up 49% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 178k–400k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 8,899 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$4.99-75%
GamersGate$5.00-75%
Steam$6.24-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.27 at GameBillet (2026-07-23) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $227.99 · on sale 114 of 115 observed days · $1.97 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.0k1.0k20212026Week of 2021-06-01: 1,014 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 117 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 379 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 425 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 178 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 16 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

183172026-09-15 12:00 — 89 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 65 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 23 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 143 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 142 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 35 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 46 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 100 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 50 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 90 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 52 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 17 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 42 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 129 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 50 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 62 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 123 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 42 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 25 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 104 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 91 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 17 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 50 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
26334Jun 2021Aug 2026Jun 2021 — avg 263 · peak 852Aug 2021 — avg 105 · peak 368Oct 2021 — avg 98 · peak 359Dec 2021 — avg 76 · peak 206Feb 2022 — avg 144 · peak 430Apr 2022 — avg 164 · peak 956Jun 2022 — avg 114 · peak 445Aug 2022 — avg 72 · peak 300Oct 2022 — avg 40 · peak 146Dec 2022 — avg 74 · peak 256Feb 2023 — avg 77 · peak 415Apr 2023 — avg 137 · peak 584Jun 2023 — avg 108 · peak 566Aug 2023 — avg 88 · peak 308Oct 2023 — avg 136 · peak 679Dec 2023 — avg 83 · peak 312Feb 2024 — avg 102 · peak 481Apr 2024 — avg 79 · peak 329Jun 2024 — avg 86 · peak 415Aug 2024 — avg 104 · peak 447Oct 2024 — avg 49 · peak 161Dec 2024 — avg 75 · peak 240Feb 2025 — avg 71 · peak 295Apr 2025 — avg 54 · peak 287Jun 2025 — avg 60 · peak 220Aug 2025 — avg 54 · peak 188Oct 2025 — avg 67 · peak 282Dec 2025 — avg 72 · peak 342Feb 2026 — avg 69 · peak 267Apr 2026 — avg 112 · peak 537Jun 2026 — avg 88 · peak 307Aug 2026 — avg 93 · peak 485
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$227.99$4.272021-06-012026-10-122021-06-01 — best price $19.992021-10-04 — best price $19.992021-12-23 — best price $19.992022-02-11 — best price $12.992022-03-25 — best price $16.472022-06-08 — best price $16.082022-11-07 — best price $10.992022-12-22 — best price $7.492023-02-08 — best price $9.992023-03-20 — best price $19.992023-05-03 — best price $8.552023-06-16 — best price $19.992023-07-23 — best price $10.392023-09-01 — best price $19.992023-10-23 — best price $16.202023-12-11 — best price $8.392024-01-18 — best price $8.002024-03-11 — best price $19.992024-04-18 — best price $9.992024-06-17 — best price $6.752024-07-30 — best price $19.992024-09-13 — best price $6.992024-11-01 — best price $7.792024-12-20 — best price $8.992025-02-24 — best price $13.942025-04-28 — best price $15.742025-06-17 — best price $13.942025-09-13 — best price $19.992025-11-17 — best price $18.602026-01-23 — best price $6.802026-03-31 — best price $19.992026-05-17 — best price $19.992026-06-26 — best price $4.642026-08-03 — best price $6.802026-08-25 — best price $4.312026-10-11 — best price $6.242026-10-12 — best price $6.24
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4192026-06-02 — 9 pageviews2026-06-06 — 18 pageviews2026-06-10 — 22 pageviews2026-06-14 — 20 pageviews2026-06-18 — 11 pageviews2026-06-22 — 18 pageviews2026-06-26 — 16 pageviews2026-06-30 — 22 pageviews2026-07-04 — 22 pageviews2026-07-08 — 17 pageviews2026-07-12 — 27 pageviews2026-07-16 — 15 pageviews2026-07-20 — 20 pageviews2026-07-24 — 28 pageviews2026-07-28 — 21 pageviews2026-08-01 — 23 pageviews2026-08-05 — 21 pageviews2026-08-09 — 35 pageviews2026-08-13 — 22 pageviews2026-08-17 — 26 pageviews2026-08-21 — 21 pageviews2026-08-25 — 14 pageviews2026-08-29 — 21 pageviews2026-09-02 — 14 pageviews2026-09-06 — 22 pageviews2026-09-10 — 17 pageviews2026-09-14 — 16 pageviews2026-09-18 — 22 pageviews2026-09-22 — 23 pageviews2026-09-26 — 19 pageviews2026-09-30 — 12 pageviews2026-10-04 — 38 pageviews2026-10-08 — 13 pageviews2026-10-11 — 14 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
58.3%
earned "For Your Eyes Only"
32.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-06-08 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)10,95312%26
Steam (Steam)10,7737%30
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)62614%30
PS4 (PlayStation)53318%26
PS4 (PlayStation)29820%26
Switch (Nintendo)50%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

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

Player tags

Co-opCasualPuzzleHackingAdventureCyberpunkDetectiveWholesomeFuturisticMultiplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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