Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas

Fair · Shooter · 2008

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$2.4975% offFair

Cost per hourA
$1.22/hr
Reviews▼
80% of 1,798
Critics
85 players 5 lower
Genre rank
Top 27% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
8.2h
To 100%
33.4h 4.1x the story

Price and sales

Sales
81 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.49 February 2014
Sale every
48d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.11 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
6 now
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
53% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

81 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 27 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 ($9.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 ($9.99, scores 42).

More about Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas

Of the 522 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 399 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 403 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.

8.2 hours to finish it, 33 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.1 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$1.22/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Replayability~33h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 8.2h main story
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds7 of 522 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Graphics look a little outdated and the AI is a little dumb but the combat, movement, and levels are INSANE. Hands down one of the most awesome and immersive games I've ever played.
Adrian SaturdayRecommendedafter 35h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I wish they'd make shooters like this now of days. Where your not the second coming of Jesus Mowing down 500 guys as you run through a room. This one makes you more slowly approach and methodically take out enemies as you make your way through a really cool setting. Story is really non-existent, but the gameplay and setting carry it.
BatmanRecommendedafter 8.1hSep 2026Read on Steam
Hey kiddo, Handsome Jack here... and I just played Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, and apparently somebody decided that the best way to solve a terrorist crisis was to send a handful of heavily armed professionals into Las Vegas and let them ruin everyone's evening. Honestly? Excellent security policy. You're part of Rainbow, you're dropped into Vegas, and suddenly the city is crawling with terrorists. Your job is...
Handsome JackRecommendedafter 6.5hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six makes its next-generation hardware debut in the most dramatic installment of the renowned first-person shooter franchise to date. Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in 'Sin City' threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/13540/tom-clancy-s-rainbow-six-vegas
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-5
Critics85
Players80
Metacritic critics · 1,798 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperUbisoft Montreal
PublisherUbisoft
GenreShooter
Released2008
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate