PCGame

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent®

Third-person stealth action balancing undercover loyalty and conflicting objectives

Ubisoft Montreal · Published by Ubisoft · Released Feb 13, 2009

Action

Reviews
Mostly Negative
35% of 1,997
Recent reviews
Mostly Negative
36% of 19 in 30 days
Players
2
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update on Steam
Unknown
no patch notes on Steam
Minimum PC
DirectX 9 GPU
1 GB RAM · 8 GB disk
Full requirements

Metacritic: 80/100 (critic reviews)

What is Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent®?

A single-player, third-person stealth action game about an agent infiltrating a terrorist group. You carry out missions across international locations, use stealth and gadgets to avoid detection, and choose between NSA and terrorist objectives. Your choices affect the story and equipment upgrades.

For you if...

  • +you enjoy sneaking through missions with upgradeable gadgets
  • +you want choices that lead to different endings

Not for you if...

  • −you prefer action that does not require stealth
  • −you need working online co-op or multiplayer modes

What players say

35% of 1,997 reviews are positive · 36% of 19 in the last 30 days

Players praise the double-agent premise and its loyalty choices, though some find the stealth weaker than in earlier games. Their most common complaints are PC crashes, visual glitches, and other technical problems that some say persist even after installing patches.

Screenshots and trailer

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent® screenshot 1

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent® system requirements

Minimum: DirectX 9 GPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

Can my PC run Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent®?

Tell us your graphics card once and every game page will answer this for you.

Set up my PC →

Minimum

Processor
3 Ghz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 3000 (3.5 Ghz Pentium 4 or Athlon 3500 recommended) - Game optimized for dual-processor-enabled computers.
Graphics
DirectX 9.0c-compliant, Shader 3.0-enabled 128 MB video card (256 MB recommended) (see supported list*)
Memory
1 GB or above (1.5 GB recommended)
Storage
8 GB available hard disk space
DirectX
DirectX® version 9.0c or higher

Does Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent® have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Does Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent® run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

  • Default controller config not fully functional
  • Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
  • Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
  • Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
  • The native resolution is not the default one
  • Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Keyboard and mouse
Platforms
Windows
Steam features
Family Sharing
Age rating
17+
Languages
Text only: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain.

Does Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent® use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

Tags

Games like Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent®