Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
Worth it · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 12.5h 16.1h to 100%
- Value
- $0.80/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 4,057 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Enter the world of cinematic stealth action with Splinter Cell, the game that propelled the genre to cult status. You are Sam Fisher, an elite covert agent in the NSA's top-secret division: Third Echelon.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 32 MB 3D video card (64. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 91 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Hitman: Absolution™ ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 ($9.99, scores 64).
More about Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
Of the 627 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 587 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Metal Gear is great, but it ain't Splinter Cell I'm certain that the console versions are the way you should experience this title, but I personally don't really mind the jankiness of this port. I just wish that they leaned more into its actual stealth rather than having Fisher being an action hero. It kinda sucks that action games with stealth elements are favored over action stealth.
2 more reviews
A BLAST from the past. This game almost made me buy the 'original' XBOX from 2001, but unfortunately it wasn't the right time and I went for a PS2 instead. 20 years later i'm finally playing it on PC. [8/10] Would recommend.
I have been a GAME-Enthusiastic from the early age of about 3yrs, maybe 2yrs old, 51 now and think Splinter Cell is a classic, I love the game, challenging and even different from playing Just Cause 2, Keeps you thinking and if at first you don't successfully not die, but practice makes perfect, and I mustn't waste my ammo, there doesn't seem to be in abundance, so yeah I'm getting better each time I take a 12 hour...
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/13560/tom-clancy-s-splinter-cellReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.