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How big is Operation: Tango - Friend Pass?

Estimated owners
≈ 57k–92k
from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Operation: Tango - Friend Pass out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Operation: Tango - Friend Pass's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 509k–1.1M
best case 8.7M (It Takes Two)
Games like Operation: Tango - Friend Pass

The middle of these games

≈ 509k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.5M–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: It Takes Two at ≈ 6.7M–10.8M copies, ≈ $73.2M–$196.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 16k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Co-op (7 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Split Screen + Local Co-Op + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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