A Game Dev’s 4 Favourite Games of 2024 (and 3 for 2025)

When you’re designing games, you need to find the time to try as many as possible. Consider it research, but also one of the very necessary (and fun) perks of the job. Honestly, it helps provide  some inspiration for the team here at Clever Plays. As an example, I recently went into a number of […]

Clever Plays, Community, Happy Bastards / 18 Dec 2024

Happy Bastards and The Art of Looking Ugly

The art of Happy Bastards is ugly – seriously ugly – and that’s the point. It’s meant to reflect the world that Kev lives in, the world that you’ll be exploiting in your quest for fame! This world needs to feel flawed, epic,…and quirky.  I’m Yohan Herve, the Art Director for Happy Bastards (and, technically, […]

Clever Plays, Community, Happy Bastards / 16 Aug 2024

2022 Wrapped!

What a year 2022 has been! We can’t wait for what 2023 has in store, but for now, let’s take a look at what we’ve been up to this last year. We celebrated our first game’s sixth birthday! Over these 6 years, we’ve learned a lot, always striving to make our games better, but we […]

Clever Plays, Community / 21 Dec 2022

Indie Games to Wishlist this Spring

There are so many fantastic indie games coming out this year, but we wanted to highlight a few that are sitting at the top of our wishlists. Why wishlist? One of the best things you can do to help support indie game developers is to wishlist their games! It lets us, and others, know that […]

Community, Operation: Tango / 16 Mar 2021

It Takes Two To Save The World raises funds to support OxFam

Hey everyone! In Operation: Tango, you and a friend must work in tandem as Field Agent & Hacker to infiltrate, investigate, and eradicate the forces threatening the free world. Communication and teamwork are key to completing missions, as “It Takes Two to Save the World”. But at Clever Plays, that’s so much more than a […]

Clever Plays, Community, Leap of Fate, Operation: Tango / 30 Aug 2020

Operation: Tango receives Gamescom Best Multiplayer Game award!

Hey everyone! We have the pleasure and tremendous honor to announce that Operation: Tango was awarded Best Multiplayer Game at the 2020 Gamescom Awards. It is an incredible recognition for us, as winners from previous editions were games like Borderlands 3 and Destiny 2! We want to reiterate our gratitude to the Gamescom organization for this […]

Clever Plays, Community, Leap of Fate, Operation: Tango / 29 Aug 2020

Operation: Tango at Gamescom 2020

Hey everyone! Gamescom 2020 is now live! From the 27th to the 30th of August, an army of games are showcased in the biggest event of the year! As part of Ubisoft Entrepreneurs, we have the chance to be a part of the first Online edition of Gamescom. Come visit us at the Indie Arena […]

Clever Plays, Community, Leap of Fate, Operation: Tango / 28 Aug 2020

The Operation: Tango Demo is now available

Hey everyone! Gamescom 2020 just opened its virtual doors, and we have marked the occasion with the official launch of our Operation: Tango Demo, as announced by Geoff Keighley on Opening Night Live! You and a friend can tackle this exclusive mission right now! Just DOWNLOAD AND PLAY THE DEMO ON STEAM! The fate of […]

Clever Plays, Community, Leap of Fate, Operation: Tango / 28 Aug 2020

Clever Plays Community Discord
Clever Plays Discord channel activities are back!

Hey everyone! New game = New skin for our Discord With the reveal of our new game, Operation: Tango, we have decided to revamp our Discord server to make it the Clever Plays Family Secret Hideout. Jump over to the newly updated Discord and check out the new activities! Among those, you’ll be able to […]

Clever Plays, Community, Leap of Fate / 15 Jun 2020

Clever Plays Steam Developer page
Clever Plays Steam Developer page

Hey everyone! The Clever Plays Steam Developer page is now active, so you can easily follow our studio to keep track of our titles, assets, and any special sales that pop up! If there is any major announcement regarding the studio and our games, you will be able to follow it directly through Steam thanks to […]

Clever Plays, Community / 15 Jun 2020