Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Once you die, you sit out the rest of the round and help your team through drones and security cameras. That is on purpose: the developers concluded that respawns play into the hands of the strongest players.

Siege took the place of Rainbow 6: Patriots. That game got stuck in development, so Ubisoft cancelled it and put together a new team to reboot the series. Siege came out in December 2015 with 20 operators from five counter-terrorism units.

The start was rough. Sales were weak, and reviewers knocked the thin content and the missing single-player campaign, even as many praised the multiplayer. But the audience kept growing: by December 2020 the game had passed 70 million registered players, and in June 2025 Ubisoft opened free access to some of its modes.

Players leave 82% positive out of 1,569,468 reviews; critics give it 79 on Metacritic. By our Recommended Score it is #753 of 4,736 games.

Liked it? Try Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2, with a story campaign in Las Vegas you can play with a friend, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, where one side plants a bomb, the other tries to stop it, and guns are bought with money from earlier rounds.