Good news for fans of Sam Fisher: Ubisoft has not forgotten about the Splinter Cell franchise. They've recently added Steam Achievements to the 2013 release, Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
While the most recent substantial update on the Splinter Cell Remake was back in 2022, when IGN interviewed Ubisoft Toronto developers about their design approach, the developer surprised fans by updating the achievement list for the now 12-year-old Blacklist on Steam overnight.
Ubisoft announced: "Agents, we are pleased to announce that Steam Achievements are now available for Splinter Cell: Blacklist!"
The achievements will be "retroactively earned for the accomplishments already completed in your game," but you'll need to launch the game at least once for this to take effect. "Once synced, the previously unlocked Ubisoft Connect achievements will be automatically unlocked on Steam," the team explained.In addition to adding achievements that can be earned retrospectively, Ubisoft decided against including the additional 19 online achievements available on consoles. This ensures players can still achieve 100% completion on Steam.
The stealth-action series is poised to make a comeback with the Splinter Cell Remake, a complete rebuild of the original game using the cutting-edge Snowdrop engine. Details remain sparse, but we know that the remake aims to refresh elements of the plot, characters, and overall story that may not have aged well, while preserving the core experience of the original, as stated by creative director Chris Auty: “20 years later, we can look back at the plot, the characters, the overall story of the game [and] make some improvements — things that might not have aged particularly well. But the core of the story, the core of the experience will remain as it was in the original game.”
In other Ubisoft news, last month the company established a new subsidiary focusing on its Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six franchises, backed by a €1.16 billion (approximately $1.25 billion) investment from Tencent.
This development follows the announcement that Assassin's Creed Shadows has surpassed 3 million players. Ubisoft has faced challenges with several high-profile flops, layoffs, studio closures, and game cancellations leading up to Shadows' release, putting significant pressure on the game to perform well, especially after the company's share price reached a historic low.
