Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction

Assemble your elite team of Rainbow Six Operators to launch incursions in the unpredictable containment zones and face off against an evolving Alien threat. Band together and put everything on the line as you…

77 20 January 2022

Shooter Strategy Action Warfare

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction is a shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 20 January 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Verified 1 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction is

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction is a shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2022. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ubisoft Anvil.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Rainbow operators will face off against a totally new breed of mutated alien parasite. Infecting human hosts and their surroundings, this new enemy is more lethal and challenging than ever before.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Tom Clancy’s series

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction is the 97th of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. The next entry was Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction: React Strike Pack in 2022. Its critic score of 77 is 7 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint - Red Patriot at 96.

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How it was received

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 3.1 GHz, Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.2 GHz, or better, 8 GB RAM and AMD RX560 (4 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (4 GB), or better. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 72GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction launched on 20 January 2022, within three weeks of Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Vampire Survivors, Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Vampire Survivors, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

All media

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction gameplay screenshot

Dlc

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction: React Strike Pack

20 January 2022

Quick answers

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction — frequently asked questions

When did Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction come out?

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction was released on 20 January 2022 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction?

At minimum, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction needs AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 3.1 GHz, Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.2 GHz, or better, 8 GB RAM, AMD RX560 (4 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (4 GB), or better graphics, 72 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction?

The PC version needs about 72 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("72 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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