Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®

BANGER · Shooter · 2009

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

BUY IT.

A BANGER at $9.99.

Length
12.9h 19.9h to 100%
Value
$0.77/hr
Reviews
93% of 5,840 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.77/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
For context
Refunds14 of 544 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

About the game

Experience one of the most critically acclaimed stealth-action games of all time. Uncover a conspiracy that hits close to home and stop World War III.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 64 MB DirectX 9.0c compliant graphics card (128 MB recommended). Windows only.

The value story

92 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 ($9.99, scores 64) and Assassin's Creed 2 ($19.99, scores 75), are both worse buys on this math.

$11.91 is where it would stop being a BANGER.

More about Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®

Of the 544 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 757 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

Chaos Theory is a role playing game. You decide whether to be a spy with a heart, or brute force your way through enemies and civies alike.
Woody's barnRecommendedafter 7.2hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Weed Cell: Cannabis Theory My name is Sam Fisher, I'm a stoner. I'm not much of a cannabis farmer but if you want to know what i believe i'll tell you, I believe the greatest strains of weed are actually obscure.
elegance.personifiedRecommendedafter 12h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
get the widescreen patch and you will be good to go with this one! splinter cell CT is the best stealth game ever made, and sam fisher is one hell of a charecter
char98Recommendedafter 17hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

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

Cite this score

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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory® scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/13570/tom-clancy-s-splinter-cell-chaos-theory
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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 Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+1
Critics92
Players93
Metacritic critics · 5,840 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperUbisoft Montreal
PublisherUbisoft
GenreShooter
Released2009
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate