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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield came out on March 18, 2003 for PC, then for Mac on December 19, 2003. On Steam, 91% of 1,930 player reviews are positive (Very Positive). 19 people are playing it on Steam right now, with a peak of 23 in the last 30 days. It is Playable on Steam Deck.

A tactical shooter with realistic properties, it adapts various features absent in previous installments of the franchise such as the ability to see one's weapon while in first-person view, many new weapons and upgrades, as well as a redesigned multiplayer.

Story

In 1945, as two members of the Nazi-sponsored Ustashe regime in Croatia manage to escape the country with huge amounts of Holocaust-era loot just before Allied troops move into the capital. Sixty years later, in 2005, elite multinational counter-terrorism task-force Rainbow finds itself investigating a series of attacks by Neo-Fascist terrorists against South American oil interests and European financial institutions.

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Releases

Platform
Date
December 19, 2003

Earliest full release on each platform; regional dates can differ.

PC and Steam Deck

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Steam Deck: Playable runs, but may need some tweaks

Minimum
Supported OS
Originally released for Windows 7, the game can be played on Windows 10 and Windows 11 OS
Processor
800 MHz Pentium® III, AMD Athlon™, or equivalent (1.3 GHz Pentium 4, AMD Athlon, or equivalent recommended)
Memory
128 MB RAM (XP users: 256 MB RAM required)
Graphics
32 MB DirectX® 8-compliant 3D video card with hardware T&L
DirectX Version
DirectX 8.1 or higher (DX9 included)
Sound
DirectX 8.1-compliant sound card
Hard Drive
3 GB minimum hard drive space
Multiplayer
You must create an account prior to attempting multiplayer, the in-game link to account creation no longer works, please use this URL.

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Requirements and Deck status as listed on Steam, checked Oct 28, 2026.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield player count

concurrent players on Steam
19playing now9m ago
19peak today
2330-day peak
23highest we have seenNov 1, 2026
Oct 23: 15 Oct 24: 21 Oct 25: 21 Oct 26: 18 Oct 27: 21 Oct 28: 17 Oct 29: 22 Oct 30: 13 Oct 31: 19 Nov 1: 23 Nov 2: 19
Oct 23daily peak, last 11 daystoday

Players counted on Steam every one to six hours; the daily peak is the highest count of the day.