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Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic) cover art

Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic)

MicroProse Software, Inc · Atari · 2014-10-09

SteamGOG

AdventureSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 03, 1990 (DOS), Jul 24, 2014 (Linux), Jan 16, 2014 (Mac), Jan 16, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1991 (Amiga)

Sid Meier's Covert Action - A Techno-Thriller From the Case Files of Max Remington.

1
playing now
90%
positive of 168 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.04
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Sid Meier's Covert Action is an action and strategy video game released in 1990 by MicroProse for MS-DOSs and Amiga. The player takes the role of Max Remington, a skilled and deadly free agent hired by the Central Intelligence Agency, and investigates criminal and terrorist plots and activities. Tommo purchased the rights to this game and digitally published it through its Retroism brand in 2015.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 58% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.2k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 168 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.89-85%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.04-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.97 at Steam (2015-08-24) · bundled 10×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 13 of 23 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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

Price history

$6.99$0.892015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-06-26 — best price $6.992015-12-22 — best price $1.742016-05-02 — best price $6.992016-09-19 — best price $6.992016-11-23 — best price $1.742017-03-30 — best price $1.742017-09-04 — best price $6.992017-12-11 — best price $2.092018-03-19 — best price $2.092018-07-17 — best price $5.592018-11-01 — best price $6.992019-01-10 — best price $6.992019-04-26 — best price $6.992019-08-30 — best price $2.102019-11-04 — best price $6.992020-01-02 — best price $6.992020-03-16 — best price $1.782020-05-11 — best price $2.092020-08-08 — best price $2.092020-11-23 — best price $2.102021-02-11 — best price $2.092021-06-14 — best price $2.092021-08-31 — best price $6.992021-12-01 — best price $6.992022-02-14 — best price $2.092022-05-23 — best price $6.992023-03-13 — best price $6.992024-02-12 — best price $6.992024-11-22 — best price $1.402025-01-02 — best price $6.222025-07-25 — best price $1.742026-02-28 — best price $1.392026-08-30 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

PuzzleClassicAdventureSimulationPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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