Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Island Thunder™

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Island Thunder™

Fair · Multiplayer · 2008

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour
$1.51/hr
Reviews▼
87% of 201
Critics
82 players 5 higher
Genre rank
Top 13% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Reach, Reviews

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Time and effort

Typical playtime
3.3h
To 100%
3.8h 1.2x the story

Price and sales

Sales
77 on record
Typical cut
70% off
Steam low
$1.24 February 2014
Sale every
46d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.24 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
64% of its genre
Better reviewed
86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 77 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold ($9.99, scores 73) and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® ($9.99, scores 79) both outscore it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

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

Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 138 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

Nice expansion pack. Adds 8 new missions, 3 MP modes, 12 new weapons and 5 MP maps. Basically free when it's on sale
⛧Haloman⛧Recommendedafter 4.5hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
It's a very fun expansion for Ghost Recon; it basically reskins the game into a Caribbean/Cuban setting, yet it still feels like something new.
Tony SopranoRecommendedafter 4.9hMar 2026Read on Steam
I first started on the Desert Siege Campaign, finished a few missions, decided to try this one on Elite difficulty and couldn't stop playing until the end! An amazing expansion to an already amazing game! Will go and finish desert siege now lol
mattfrederickwRecommendedafter 17hMar 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Ghost Recon takes the next step in battlefield realism with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™: Island Thunder™. Cuba, 2009: Castro is dead, and the first free Cuban elections in decades are thrown into turmoil by a drug-funded warlord. The Ghosts, an elite team of U.S.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 MB DirectX 8.0-compliant 3D card; Voodoo cards not supported. Windows only.

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

Cite this score

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Island Thunder™ scores 58/100 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/13630/tom-clancy-s-ghost-recon-island-thunder
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+5
Critics82
Players87
Metacritic critics · 201 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRed Storm Entertainment
PublisherUbisoft
GenreMultiplayer
Released2008
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate