Every Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon game, ranked
All 4 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games we hold, spanning 2006 to 2023: 3 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 167,323 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands (GamingPickz Score 7.3), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (2006) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 3 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
3 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 3 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Every game by critic score
The grid above is built from Steam data, so it can only place the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games that were on Steam. This one uses the Metacritic critic aggregate, which the older console-only entries have too, so the whole series lands on a single chart: critic score against release year.
On Steam (also has a GamingPickz Score) Console-only (Metacritic only)
3 best Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
Best for: Playing with other people
7.3GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands at a glance Released 2017 Studio Ubisoft Paris Player sentiment 78% positive of 113,815 Critics No aggregate Price $49.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 50 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 78% shrinks to 78.0 on 113,815 reviews, giving 7.3. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
Worth checking first- Carries in-game purchases. Check what they cost before committing.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- 2
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Best for: Playing through with a friend online
6.7GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint at a glance Released 2023 Studio Ubisoft Paris Player sentiment 73% positive of 47,338 Critics No aggregate Price $59.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size 67 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 73% shrinks to 73.1 on 47,338 reviews, giving 6.7. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
- 3
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Best for: Playing with other people
6.2GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceTom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier at a glance Released 2012 Studio Ubisoft Paris Player sentiment 71% positive of 6,170 Critics 71/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 71% shrinks to 71.8 on 6,170 reviews, then blends with the 71 critic aggregate, giving 6.2.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Only the 3 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games with Steam review data can be scored and ranked. The complete series, scored or not, is charted in order below.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon game we can score is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands at 7.3. The lowest is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier at 6.2, a 1.1-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
How the series scored over time
GamingPickz Score against release year, 2012 to 2023. The later entries score higher than the earlier ones: the series has been trending up.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier at $19.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon entries on Steam:
- Playable: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
- Unsupported: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Platforms across the series
Where the 4 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 3 of 4 |
| Xbox | 1 of 4 |
| Nintendo | 1 of 4 |
The Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series, game by game
Every Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2006
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Metacritic 90Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is a 2006 tactical shooter video game developed and published by Ubisoft. It was released for the Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows. As in previous Ghost Recon games, players command their team while neutralizing hostile forces and completing various… (Wikipedia)
Plot
In 2013, United States president Ballantine, Mexican president Ruiz-Peña, and the Canadian prime minister meet to sign the North American Joint Security Agreement (NAJSA) in Mexico City to cooperate in national security and anti-smuggling initiatives. Elsewhere in the city, a Ghost team led by Captain Scott Mitchell is deployed to recover Guardrail IX, an American communications disruptor device stolen from a spy plane that was shot down in Nicaragua .… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception In May 2005, the Xbox 360 edition of Advanced Warfighter was shown to the press in trailer form at the E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) convention in Los Angeles. The Xbox 360 version of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter was released on March 7, 2006 to multiple rave reviews. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 90. (Wikipedia)
- 2012
In Ghost Recon Future Soldier join an elite team of highly trained, cut-throat special-ops soldiers. Armed to the teeth with unrivalled combat technology, Ghost Recon takes you to the globe’s most deadly warzones to hunt down the highest value targets. (Steam)
Plot
In 2024, Joe Ramirez leads a four-man Ghost Recon squad to Nicaragua to disrupt weapons trafficking in the region. As they inspect a convoy they ambushed, a dirty bomb is remotely detonated, killing the team. In response, Major Scott Mitchell assembles the Ghost Recon team "Hunter" in Fort Bragg , North Carolina , consisting of “Ghost Lead” Captain Cedric Ferguson, Staff Sergeant John Kozak, Master Sergeant Robert "Pepper" Bonifacio, and Sergeant First… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier received generally positive reviews from critics. Some reviewers, like IGN ' s, have praised the game's more thoughtful approach to cover-based shooting, scoring the game an 8. 5 out of 10. (Wikipedia)
- 2017
Lead your elite team of Ghosts in this tactical third-person shooter. Explore a massive open world, infiltrate and destroy the deadly Santa Blanca cartel, and save Bolivia and its people. (Steam)
Plot
Setting The game takes place in Bolivia in July 2019. The country has become increasingly unstable as a Mexican drug cartel known as the Santa Blanca Cartel gains control of several regions throughout the country. Led by the brutal and religious cartel boss El Sueño, the cartel gains more power and influence within and outside the country, turning Bolivia into the world's largest producer of cocaine. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Pre-release As the game was revealed at E3 2015, some critics called the announcement one of the most surprising reveals during E3. Wildlands was nominated for IGN 's E3 2015 Game of the Show, Best PlayStation 4 Game, Best Xbox One Game and Best PC Game awards, and received one of GameSpot s Best of E3 2015 awards. It was also named the best co-operative and the best shooter by Game Informer in their Best of E3 2015 Awards. (Wikipedia)
- 2023
Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a tactical third-person shooter set in a vast open world. You must survive, adapt, and fight a rogue spec ops faction, using stealth, strategy, and high-tech gear in solo or co-op. (Steam)
Plot
Setting and characters The game is set in the then-future year of 2025, six years after the events of Wildlands and one year after the events of Future Soldier . The story takes place on Auroa, a fictional island in the South Pacific owned by a billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist named Jace Skell ( Rodney Mullen ). Skell is the founder of Skell Technology, a blue chip company producing drones for commercial applications, but the company has also… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic . The game was described as "underwhelming" and "miserable", with criticism for its mechanics and mission design. Richard Wakeling of GameSpot wrote that " Breakpoint is a messy hodgepodge of disparate ideas, pulling various aspects from other Ubisoft games and shoehorning them in, half-baked and out of place… (Wikipedia)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
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Common questions
How many Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games are there?
We hold 4 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games in the catalogue, released between 2006 and 2023. 3 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands rates highest at 7.3. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2006 to 2023. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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