Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Hitman: Absolution, which both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult.
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is tagged Stealth, Action, Third Person, Singleplayer, Classic, Shooter, Third-Person Shooter, Multiplayer by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
- 1 are free to download, so you can test the resemblance yourself at no cost.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Hitman: Absolution
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Stealth, Third Person and Third-Person Shooter.
The original assassin is back! Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.
Hitman: Absolution at a glance Released 2012 Studio Nixxes Software Player sentiment 93% positive of 63,506 Price $19.99 StealthThird PersonThird-Person ShooterTacticalShooterDifficultStrategyController
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Hitman: Blood Money
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Stealth, Third Person and Classic; released around the same time (2006).
Money Talks. Silence Pays. Prepare to Make a Killing. When assassins from Agent 47's contract agency, The ICA, are eliminated in a series of hits, it seems a larger, more powerful agency has entered the fray. Sensing he may be a target, 47 travels to America, and prepares to make a killing.
Hitman: Blood Money at a glance Released 2006 Studio Feral Interactive Player sentiment 94% positive of 16,066 Price $9.99 StealthThird PersonClassicThird-Person ShooterShooterDifficultStrategy
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Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Stealth, Third Person and Classic; released around the same time (2002).
Enter the realm of a retired assassin, forced back into action by treason. You may be a hired killer but you still have a sense of loyalty and justice. Visit the dark recesses of a world corrupted by crime, greed, degradation and dishonor. And a past that catches up with you.
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin at a glance Released 2002 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 82% positive of 4,890 Price $8.99 StealthThird PersonClassicShooterDifficultThird-Person ShooterTactical
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Hitman: Codename 47
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Stealth, Classic and Third Person.
As the enigmatic Hitman, you must use stealth and tactical problem solving to enter, execute and exit your assignment with minimum attention and maximum effectiveness. For a price, you have access to the most devious devices, but how you use them will determine if you retire as a millionaire or get permanently retired.
Hitman: Codename 47 at a glance Released 2007 Studio IO Interactive A/S Player sentiment 71% positive of 5,088 Price $7.99 StealthClassicThird PersonShooterThird-Person ShooterDifficultTacticalStrategy
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Stealth, Third Person and Classic; released around the same time (2005).
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.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory at a glance Released 2005 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 93% positive of 5,797 Price $9.99 StealthThird PersonClassicTacticalShooterControllerThird-Person ShooterStrategy
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric and strategy; shares 7 player tags including Stealth, Third Person and Shooter.
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.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist at a glance Released 2013 Studio Ubisoft Toronto Player sentiment 79% positive of 21,615 Price $19.99 StealthThird PersonShooterTacticalThird-Person ShooterControllerStrategy
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Shooter, Stealth and Tactical.
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 takes the bulls-eye precision of its predecessor to new and exciting heights!
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 at a glance Released 2013 Studio City Interactive Player sentiment 76% positive of 18,757 Price $9.99 ShooterStealthTacticalStrategyControllerDifficult
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric and strategy; shares 7 player tags including Stealth, Third-Person Shooter and Tactical.
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.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier at a glance Released 2012 Studio Ubisoft Paris Player sentiment 71% positive of 6,170 Price $19.99 StealthThird-Person ShooterTacticalShooterThird PersonControllerStrategy
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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Why it matched: both stealth, strategy and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Shooter, Third-Person Shooter and Tactical.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the high-stakes winner-take-all shooter that started the Battle Royale craze, is free-to-play! Drop into diverse maps, loot unique weapons and supplies, and survive in an ever-shrinking zone where every turn could be your last.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at a glance Released 2017 Studio PUBG Corporation Player sentiment 61% positive of 2,748,446 Price Free ShooterThird-Person ShooterTacticalStrategyThird PersonDifficultStealth
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Desperados III
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 5 player tags including Strategy, Stealth and Tactical.
Desperados III is a story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game, set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. Play smart if you want to succeed. A good plan can make the difference between survival and finding yourself at the business end of a pistol.
Desperados III at a glance Released 2020 Studio Mimimi Games Player sentiment 97% positive of 16,591 Price $39.99 StrategyStealthTacticalDifficultThird Person
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 5 player tags including Stealth, Strategy and Tactical.
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun at a glance Released 2016 Studio Mimimi Games Player sentiment 96% positive of 38,415 Price $3.99 StealthStrategyTacticalDifficultThird Person
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Hitman: Contracts
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Stealth, Third Person and Classic.
Enter the world of a HITMAN - a world of crime, sin and greed. Delve into the mind of Agent 47 and encounter his greatest adversaries, completing the work that made him so brutally efficient and shaped him as an assassin. Eliminate your targets by any means necessary. There are no rules... only the contract, signed in blood.
Hitman: Contracts at a glance Released 2014 Studio Io-Interactive A/S Player sentiment 87% positive of 3,658 Price $8.99 StealthThird PersonClassicShooterDifficultThird-Person Shooter
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric and strategy; shares 6 player tags including Shooter, Stealth and Tactical.
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.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands at a glance Released 2017 Studio Ubisoft Paris Player sentiment 78% positive of 113,815 Price $49.99 ShooterStealthTacticalThird-Person ShooterThird PersonStrategy
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric and strategy; shares 6 player tags including Tactical, Third-Person Shooter and Third Person.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified at a glance Released 2013 Studio 2K Marin Player sentiment 70% positive of 12,080 Price $19.99 TacticalThird-Person ShooterThird PersonStrategyShooterStealth
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Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Why it matched: both atmospheric and strategy; shares 6 player tags including Classic, Strategy and Third Person; released around the same time (2005).
You're the Stranger, a mysterious bounty hunter on a mission to bag the ultimate prize. And you need that money like no one else because there is something very wrong with your health and the only way to fix it is a very costly operation.
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath at a glance Released 2005 Studio Oddworld Inhabitants Player sentiment 87% positive of 1,817 Price $9.99 ClassicStrategyThird PersonThird-Person ShooterShooterController
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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 4 player tags including Strategy, Tactical and Stealth.
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden at a glance Released 2018 Studio The Bearded Ladies Player sentiment 90% positive of 20,534 Price $34.99 StrategyTacticalStealthDifficult
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GTFO
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 4 player tags including Difficult, Shooter and Stealth.
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
GTFO at a glance Released 2021 Studio 10 Chambers Player sentiment 84% positive of 66,650 Price $39.99 DifficultShooterStealthTactical
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Manhunt
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric and difficult; shares 5 player tags including Stealth, Classic and Third Person; released around the same time (2003).
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
Manhunt at a glance Released 2003 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 71% positive of 9,522 Price $3.49 StealthClassicThird PersonDifficultShooter
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Watch Dogs
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric and strategy; shares 5 player tags including Third Person, Stealth and Third-Person Shooter.
In today's hyper-connected world, Chicago operates under ctOS, the most advanced computer network in America.
Watch Dogs at a glance Released 2014 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 80% positive of 52,443 Price $19.99 Third PersonStealthThird-Person ShooterShooterStrategy
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Dead by Daylight
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 4 player tags including Stealth, Third Person and Strategy.
10 years of horror. 10 years of jump scares and close calls. 10 years of brutal sacrifices and thrilling escapes. Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits.
Dead by Daylight at a glance Released 2016 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 78% positive of 931,065 Price $7.99 StealthThird PersonStrategyDifficult
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Sniper Elite
Why it matched: both stealth and strategy; shares 7 player tags including Stealth, Third-Person Shooter and Shooter.
As World War II draws to a close, the first covert battles of the Cold War begin. Caught in the life and death struggle between Soviets and Germans in war-torn Berlin, you control the fate of a lone American OSS Sniper.
Sniper Elite at a glance Released 2009 Studio Rebellion Player sentiment 76% positive of 4,185 Price $7.99 StealthThird-Person ShooterShooterThird PersonClassicControllerTactical
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Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
Why it matched: both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult; shares 4 player tags including Stealth, Shooter and Tactical.
Become the ultimate assassin in the most realistic modern warfare sniping game available. Engage in an immersive single-player campaign across large, open-ended maps. Tactical thinking, stealth approach and precision in execution of long shots required.
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts at a glance Released 2019 Studio CI Games Player sentiment 73% positive of 13,229 Price $2.99 StealthShooterTacticalDifficult
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Mafia
Why it matched: both atmospheric and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Classic, Third Person and Third-Person Shooter; released around the same time (2002).
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
Mafia at a glance Released 2002 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 88% positive of 16,301 Price $14.99 ClassicThird PersonThird-Person ShooterShooterDifficultController
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PAYDAY The Heist
Why it matched: both stealth, strategy and difficult; shares 5 player tags including Shooter, Stealth and Difficult.
Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
PAYDAY The Heist at a glance Released 2011 Studio OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio. Player sentiment 93% positive of 40,968 Price $9.99 ShooterStealthDifficultTacticalStrategy
Common questions
What game is most like Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell?
Hitman: Absolution, on the evidence we have. It both stealth, atmospheric, strategy and difficult. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.