Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist
Fair · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.7h
- Value
- $0.47/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 70% over the last 30 days against 79% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB DirectX 10–compliant with Shader Model 4.0 or higher, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
In this stealth-action thriller, a terrorist group known as the Engineers launches the Blacklist, a series of escalating attacks on US interests. Only one man can stop them: legendary covert agent Sam Fisher.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in October 2025. It has been discounted 94 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $4.99 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 46. The current cut is what makes it a 56.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 30 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 ($2.49, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands ($9.99, scores 51).
Players rate it 79 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 70 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 20 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 2,201 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10.7 hours; clearing it takes 28, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
9% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
43 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Without any doubt the absolute best Splinter Cell game, people who say that Chaos Theory or Double Agent are better only say it because of nostalgia. Gameplay, stealth, replay potential, customizations and literally every aspect of Blacklist is miles ahead of all other Splinter Cell games. The game is incredibly difficult if you are trying to completely avoid all enemies without knocking/killing them, especially on...
this is a great game. however you must add something to the launch line in the desktop shortcut. On the internet it says add (space)-offline-offline_mode . I found that I needed ( space)-offline(space)-offline_mode. without this the game would crash after 20 minutes or so. sounds like work but the game is one of the best out there. (space means hit the spacebar once.)
Just here to drop the "♥♥♥♥ you" to ubislop for forcing me to sign in to play a single player game that I purchased legally. Literally go ♥♥♥♥ yourself.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/235600/tom-clancy-s-splinter-cell-blacklistThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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