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Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist

PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Wii U, Xbox 360 • 2013

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Multiple playstyles and approaches
  • Engaging stealth and tactical gameplay
  • Co-op and multiplayer modes
  • Customization and progression system
  • Cinematic story and presentation

Things to keep in mind

  • Technical issues and crashes reported
  • Multiplayer population low and servers shut down
  • Some linear mission design
  • Voice actor change for main character
  • Some ai and gameplay quirks

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Sniper Elite 5

  • Dying Light

  • Enlisted

  • Far Cry® 4

  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™

  • Resident Evil Revelations

More intimate

Games that feels like Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist but with more focus on close relationships

  • ARC Raiders

  • Resident Evil 5

  • Zombie Army Trilogy

  • Killing Floor 2

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

  • Strange Brigade

Less fantastical

Games that feels like Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist but with less imaginative fiction

  • America's Army: Proving Grounds

  • Sniper Elite 4

  • Tom Clancy’s The Division™

  • Battlefield 3™

  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2

  • Sniper Elite 3

Less competitive

Games that feels like Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist but with less competition against others

  • Dead Space™ 3

  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction™

  • Sniper Elite V2 Remastered

  • Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition

  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

  • Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 06/08/2026