Espionage operations: steal money, technology, secrets

About this game

Developer: Limbic Entertainment / Realmforge Studios · Publisher: Kalypso Media · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Diplomacy & Characters

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What to study

Espionage is framed as diplomacy by other means: superpowers are postage stamps down the panel's edge, operations are a short verb list (Invite, Steal Money, Steal Technology, Expose Secrets), and the detail pane prices every operation in relations and odds, China at 32 (Cold), 45% success chance, faster with more agents, auto-restarting on completion. The whole loop (pick a target, pick a crime, watch the odds) fits in one panel with no separate mission screen. Frame at about 3:10 in the Tropico 6 Featurette US (Steam). Trailer burn-in: the COMMAND YOUR SPIES title overlay crosses the panel's top edge, an ESPIONAGE watermark sits top left, and subtitle text runs along the bottom; all three are featurette artifacts, not game UI.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel detail-panel tabbed-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs List

Screen inventory

• Espionage panel: superpower stamp tabs (USA, Russia, others) down the left edge
• operation list: Invite, Steal Money (hovered), Steal Technology, Expose Secrets
• detail pane: China Relations: 32 (Cold)
• detail text: expose dirty laundry to gain standing with USA; additional agents speed the operation; success chance depends on enemy counterespionage and unassigned agents; operations restart automatically
• Success chance: 45%
• COMMAND YOUR SPIES trailer title overlay across the panel top (trailer artifact, disclose)
• ESPIONAGE watermark top left (trailer artifact, disclose)
• subtitle burn-in at bottom (trailer artifact, disclose)

Top 3 colors

#707044 26%#f1ede5 20%#f5f1e9 15%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Limbic Entertainment / Realmforge Studios / Kalypso Media, Tropico 6 screenshot: Tropico 6 Featurette US (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Kalypso Media.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-01. verified 2026-11-01: frame extracted from the official Tropico 6 Featurette US (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (espionage panel, stamp tabs, operation list, relations and success chance) confirmed visible beneath the trailer title overlay

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