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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Island Thunder™ cover art

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Island Thunder™

Red Storm Entertainment · Ubisoft · 2008-07-15

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 25, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Ghost Recon takes the next step in battlefield realism with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™: Island Thunder™. Cuba, 2009: Castro is dead, and the first free Cuban elections in decades are thrown into turmoil by a drug-funded warlord. The Ghosts, an elite team of U.S.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Island Thunder™ is a 2008 Action game priced at $4.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (87% of 198 reviews).

3
playing now
87%
positive of 198 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder is a 2002 expansion pack for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Ubi Soft for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. It is also a playable campaign in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm, a game released for the PlayStation 2 and N-Gage systems. Set in an alternate democratizing Cuba two years after the events of the base game, Island Thunder follows the "Ghosts", an elite special forces unit of the United States Army, as they intervene in electoral fraud by a communist party that escalates into terrorism when they lose the election.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 27,701 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.9k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 198 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.24 at Steam (2012-12-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 16 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820132026Week of 2013-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$1.242015-01-012026-09-212015-01-01 — best price $2.992015-06-19 — best price $2.992015-11-25 — best price $2.492016-02-05 — best price $2.492016-05-24 — best price $1.242016-11-23 — best price $1.692017-03-23 — best price $1.692017-11-22 — best price $1.692018-03-22 — best price $1.692018-11-21 — best price $1.692019-02-04 — best price $1.692019-06-25 — best price $1.692019-12-19 — best price $1.692020-02-27 — best price $1.242020-06-25 — best price $1.692020-11-25 — best price $1.492021-01-18 — best price $1.492021-03-16 — best price $1.492021-08-30 — best price $1.492021-11-24 — best price $1.492022-01-20 — best price $1.492022-03-07 — best price $1.492022-08-04 — best price $1.492022-11-22 — best price $1.492023-03-02 — best price $1.492023-04-27 — best price $1.492023-10-09 — best price $1.492023-12-21 — best price $1.492024-03-14 — best price $1.242024-06-19 — best price $1.242024-09-09 — best price $1.242024-12-19 — best price $1.242025-04-13 — best price $1.242025-09-29 — best price $1.242026-02-26 — best price $1.242026-08-06 — best price $1.242026-08-10 — best price $1.242026-08-14 — best price $1.242026-09-20 — best price $1.242026-09-21 — best price $1.24
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

137232026-05-30 — 48 pageviews2026-06-03 — 48 pageviews2026-06-07 — 48 pageviews2026-06-11 — 23 pageviews2026-06-15 — 45 pageviews2026-06-19 — 43 pageviews2026-06-23 — 47 pageviews2026-06-27 — 36 pageviews2026-07-01 — 31 pageviews2026-07-05 — 51 pageviews2026-07-09 — 52 pageviews2026-07-13 — 45 pageviews2026-07-17 — 31 pageviews2026-07-21 — 38 pageviews2026-07-25 — 42 pageviews2026-07-29 — 31 pageviews2026-08-02 — 47 pageviews2026-08-06 — 137 pageviews2026-08-10 — 98 pageviews2026-08-14 — 108 pageviews2026-08-18 — 62 pageviews2026-08-22 — 61 pageviews2026-08-26 — 38 pageviews2026-08-30 — 40 pageviews2026-09-03 — 46 pageviews2026-09-07 — 39 pageviews2026-09-11 — 49 pageviews2026-09-15 — 36 pageviews2026-09-19 — 31 pageviews2026-09-23 — 42 pageviews2026-09-27 — 61 pageviews2026-10-01 — 33 pageviews2026-10-05 — 42 pageviews2026-10-09 — 36 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FPSCo-opActionClassicShooterMilitaryTacticalSimulationFirst-Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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