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Shadow Ops: Red Mercury cover art

Shadow Ops: Red Mercury

Zombie Studios · Atari · 2014-07-02

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen

Releases: Jun 18, 2004 (Xbox), Oct 22, 2004 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Race against time and terrorism as a member of the elite counter terrorist team in this all-out first person shooter. Your duty is to hunt down a terrorist overlord carrying a nuclear device before untold disaster is unleashed.

0
playing now
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
57/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
$1.04
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 10:00 UTC (census sample)

The player takes the role of Captain Frank Hayden, an elite Delta Force operative and the former leader of Black Saber, the President's personal black bag unit. Hayden and his team are attempting to recover a briefcase nuclear bomb code named "Red Mercury" from terrorist mercenary Vladimir Styanovich, known by his Nom de guerre "Vlady the Vicious", who is operating out of a coastal Syrian town. The team's Black Hawk is shot down immediately upon insertion, and they fight their way through the streets in pursuit of Vlady. Hayden is too late to stop Vlady from escaping via helicopter, but manage(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

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Current store prices

GOG$0.89-85%
GOG$0.89-85%
Steam$1.04-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $1.04 · on sale 0 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.04$0.892026-08-222026-08-302026-08-22 — best price $1.042026-08-23 — best price $1.042026-08-24 — best price $1.042026-08-26 — best price $0.892026-08-27 — best price $0.892026-08-28 — best price $0.892026-08-29 — best price $0.892026-08-30 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

Census log

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

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