About Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® Blacklist™

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist opens on a tense geopolitical premise: the United States maintains a military presence in two-thirds of the world's countries, and some of them have finally had enough. A group of terrorists calling themselves The Engineers responds by launching a terror ultimatum known as the Blacklist, a deadly countdown of escalating attacks aimed squarely at U.S. interests.

That ticking clock frames the entire experience, giving the action-adventure a sense of mounting urgency as the threats grow more severe with each passing stage. The player is thrust into the role of stopping this campaign before its consequences spiral beyond control, racing against time to unravel who is behind it.

As an entry in the long-running Splinter Cell series on PC, Blacklist channels its story into stealth-driven action-adventure, following the fight to dismantle The Engineers and halt their escalating assault. The premise leans into modern anxieties about power, retaliation, and the price of a sprawling military footprint, using them to justify the high-stakes espionage at the game's core. For fans of tense, mission-based infiltration, it sets up a globe-spanning struggle where preventing the next attack on the Blacklist is always the immediate, pressing goal driving every operation forward.