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Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™
Developer Ubisoft Montreal
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the sixth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series. Its historical timeframe precedes that of Assassin's Creed III (2012), but its modern-day sequences succeed III's own. Black Flag was originally released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U in October 2013 and a month later for… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
277 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky) · newest Oct 8, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
62
Fresh
153 positive · 95 negative
95% range 56–68%
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| Steam reviews | 153 | 95 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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29 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
69,498 of 78,688 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
A beloved pirate adventure, but marred by Ubisoft Connect DRM and technical issues.
Many players praise Black Flag as the best Assassin's Creed game and a masterpiece of pirate fantasy, with an expansive world, solid naval combat, and a story that resonates more with age. Some call it a 10/10 and say it holds up extremely well, even preferring it over the upcoming remake. [1][11][5]
However, a significant number of players report that the game requires an internet connection and the Ubisoft Connect launcher, which often fails to log them in or causes crashes and save file loss. Some allege that Ubisoft raised the price and broke the game to push the remake, calling the launcher a liability and the company scummy. [23][26][27][29][31][34]
Praised pirate fantasy and naval combat · story and characters · world design and exploration
Criticised Ubisoft Connect DRM and login issues · technical bugs and performance · price increase and remake concerns
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Critics, per Wikipedia
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic, with critics praising the open world gameplay, side-quests, graphics and naval combat. In November 2013, Hardcore Gamer ranked Black Flag as the 70th greatest game of the seventh generation era. Black Flag was generally praised as superior to Assassin's Creed III, with Game Informer's Joe Juba noting that Ubisoft responded to criticisms the previous game faced and rectified them. CVG's Matt Gilman called the game "a return to form for the franchise," while Mikel Reparaz of Official Xbox Magazine stated that "After weathering the somewhat diminishing returns of…
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Reactions
60 of 277 · most liked firstA Sea of Regrets: Edward Kenway's Unlikely Redemption Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is a masterpiece of pirate fantasy that often feels like it transcends its own franchise. It delivers an unforgettable adventure on the high seas, even if it can't fully escape the series' most tedious traditions. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3480966131 The game's greatest strength is its surprisingly heartfelt story. Following Edward Kenway, a brash privateer out for glory, you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have been playing through the old titles recently and have now made my way to Black Flag. I didn’t actually like Black Flag initially, as I didn’t think boat warfare was the best fit as the primary activity in an Assassin’s Creed title. But as time went on, I found myself missing it more and more. While I do really like the newer Assassin’s Creed format, I agree with the criticism it has gotten about not feeling like the old games did, and I am also starting to miss the old titles now.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Assassin's Creed iv Black Flag resynced R34 fancomic page 2/10 - sketched! Will begin to colour tomorrow :p #assassinscreedivblackflag #assassinscreedivblackflagresynced #blackflag #edwardkenway #mermaid #comic
unlabelledView post →If I ever decide to reinstall, it will be this version of the game. Let's face facts--Ubisoft lost a combined total of $500-600 million on their last two (assassin genre) games (Skull and Bones & Assassin's Creed Shadows). If ever there was a time to recoup their losses, remastering one of their most popular games was probably one of the best financial decisions Ubisoft has made in the past 10 years. I won't be conned into buying the remaster, let alone at full price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →better then the remake. at least i don't have pop up ads when i open a menu. at least i don't have 85 dollars of dlc that i get told to buy when i play the game. at least there's no way to buy easier progression in the game. at least this version of the game is 40 DOLLARS with all the dlc. ♥♥♥♥ you ubisoft eat sand
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Revisiting the game for the first time after beating it way back in 2014, i went in remembering mostly and faintly only the naval battles. But with age comes a different perspective and replaying it again in 2026, i found myself resonating with more of the parts of the game than i did in the past... The story seemed and felt more complete, the characters and their motives more fleshed out and humane ( with their merits and also their bad habits and passions ) and the main game's premise of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get this one before the remake ruins everything and the original is eventually de-listed from steam just like they did with AC3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ending broke me gng. Gotta be the saddest ending for any AC protag.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic game and one of my childhood favorites, get it before it gets delisted in favor of a soulless remake
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This voyage marked me return to the Assassin’s Creed since the very first tale, many a year ago and by Neptune’s beard, what a journey it was. The world still shines like gold, the towns and ports teeming with life, each harbor boasting its own soul and character. From sailing the open ocean to hacking through dense jungles, plunging beneath shark-infested waves, and storming mighty forts, every adventure added more gunpowder to the voyage. This game captures the Golden Age of Piracy in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ubisoft broke this version a year ago (online only, but the servers are down so you can't progress without mods that can get you banned)... I called it then... They'll make a remake and they'll keep crippling older games to sell them back to you... just like AI slop is stealing all your art and music to sell back to you... You will own nothing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game doesnt launch. You have to use ubisoft's terrible app to play it. Still doesnt launch. Ubisoft is terrible. Dont give them money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, way better than the remaster!!! Just play a pirated version like a true pirate instead of giving Ubislop money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No need to buy the Resynced version when this game holds up extremely well for its time, 10/10 best AC game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →never thought the day I see a game I got to experience in real time be remade this quickly. I was eight when black flag originally dropped, I was as stoked as over, believed graphics couldn’t evolve any further. played the game and followed discourses concerning it in real time. 13 years later, we get a remake. still feels too early but I’m all in. black flag holds a special place in my heart, it’s one of ubisoft’s finest achievements from the assassin’s creed series. the naval combat here…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was 7usd like a couple months ago, not on sale, not on any event, this full game was only 7 dolars on its full price. From one day to another ubisoft raised the game price from 7, to 35usd. 466,7% overpriced, same game, same bugs, same long fix to make it even work on a modern pc, same everything, but now they raised the price just to stop people from playing this game instead of the new black flag remaster to avoid people buying this instead of the remaster, a pathethic way to do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After 2 years of not playing i get on the game and save files are gone. Ubisoft connect is not a feature its a liability.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Better than resynced. Requested a refund of that POS after loosing progress for not being connected to bugisoft servers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you were thinking of buying Resynced, buy this instead. The best game in the franchise, nuff said.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wonderful game but can't recommend to anyone because of the always online DRM that won't let you run the game if Ubisoft Connect decides it won't run for some reason.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Requires an internet connection to start, the launching of Ubisoft's own launcher, and your password every single time. Just to waste your time, storage and sanity. You can suck my balls, Ubisoft.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →>singleplayer game >can't play offline >?? >"a ubisoft service is currently unavailable" ♥♥♥♥ you and your worthless launcher
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excited to play! Installed... run... "Login to Ubisoft Connect". Uninstalled. Stop it. I literally play from steam, I don't need your absolute crap launchers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UBISoft is TRASH!!! Being locked into their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher is the worst thing possible! I have 7 or 8 of their titles, and 909% are unplayable!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game needs no improvement or remake. Do not buy the remake. Buy and play this if you haven't yet.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've just wasted a half hour trying to get this company's abomination of a launcher to work and it still refuses to log me into my account to play my decade old singleplayer game. I've tried jumping on and off wifi. I've installed ProtonTricks and manually installed ubiconnect. Nothing works. This feels like theft. I hope this company folds and everyone working there falls into poverty. Yes, even the environment artists. I'm just trying to play my silly pirate game on my steam deck and you're…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried to install the game today but sadly I have totally forgot my pasworld for the Ubisoft login ♥♥♥♥. I spend like 10 minutes to get the captcha right but never happened. Now im stucked i cant play i cant login. By the way the game is wonderfull Ubisoft suck ass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I won't be buying the new version, i already own this one, i should be able to get the newer edition for free or heavily discounted at the very least. It's literally the same game with a bit of a graphic update and you want us to pay twice the amount Gold edition of this game is worth?... I'll pass. Scummy and scammy. I'll stick to this version.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Account suspended / Ubisoft service unavailable I really loved this games Unity Black Flag and Ezio trilogy but it's this freakin' Ubisoft Connect that has a problem and won't let us play the games we bought! Why keep asking password everytime you play it why not be like Syndicate or the RPG trio games and Shadows that doesn't ask for it everytime! Fix this Ubisoft! It's not only me that's having the problem!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Problem with signing to servers. Game occasionally crashes. Kenway fleet not working unless you either mod it or download older exe through console. Movement can be cancer as often you jump wrong way, stick randomly to walls, can't jump up the tree or when traversing you jump down instead to another branch.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not writing this to compel anyone to play this game and more as a reminder to myself that there are good games that fall into the Ubislop genre, and that being triple A or having a very large development team doesn't always lead to generic mush, but can allow for expansive titles with a load of random historical footnotes Also god bless the people that decided to include shanties
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good but flawed I've only played the original Assassin's Creed upon release before this. I hoped the series had grown quite a bit since that first game. The good The world is quite expansive and mostly beautifully designed. As soon as the story gets underway and you get command of the ship the scale of possible things to do skyrockets. The base game loop on the ship is very solid, and fighting/boarding/chasing other ships can be very entertaining. Atmosphere on the ship is top notch as…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥ you ubisooft
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much better than the so called remake
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ubisoft connect
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is great, only the launcher is trash
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want to buy Ubisoft games please consider a sale and give them as little money as possible or non at all. Ubisoft has repeatedly demonstrated an anti-consumer attitude. The company permanently revoked access to The Crew, leaving paying customers unable to play a game they purchased after its servers were shut down. Ubisoft has defended its position in court against Stop Killing Games and argued that players are purchasing a service, not something that lasts indefinitely. Until Ubisoft…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ubisoft....why to i need to log into a 15 year old game .... oo thats right because its your way of me "OWNING" the game. If you weren't so anti consumer i would buy more of your games,,, the game is still a 10/10 its the company that need work...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buy this because it's good. BUT! It installes spyware called "Ubislop Connect". But this is a game about piracy... so... This is why I have 100 hours in it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have quite the personal history with this game: - Pirated it back in 2014–15 when I was a teenage brat (couldn't find physical disks in stores and parents won't buy it online) - Game was fun and action-packed - Raided many ships because I wanted the money and loot (I was greedy) - Began to realise from Blackbeard that many pirates stole out of necessity - Learned lessons about greed - Taught me about loss in life as Kenway gradually lost everyone dear to him (partly due to his own greed) - I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the Best Assassins Creed game and Probably the best Pirate game ever. But The Physx Bugs and no Cloud Saves cancel out 1 point 9/10 67
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is amazing but it did take some research and trail and error to get it to run perfectly. Because of its age, it doesn't run well on new processors or graphics cards. First fix would be to download process lasso. When you start the game find the ac4 process in the process lasso program and disable hyperthreading and make sure it only uses physical cores. That will fix the stuttering, frame drops and crashes. Once that's done, disable the physx in the graphics option if your using a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bruh a game from 2013 & you can't play it nowadays without signing into your Ubisoft account. Just let me play jfc
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →do not buy, you have to sign in to ubisoft connect and if you have any issue at all, their support refuses to help. Steam can't do anything since it's 3rd party, youre just screwed out of your money and unable to play the game because Ubisoft sucks and hates their customers i guess
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Latest patch broke fullscreen, unplayable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game however with Ubisoft’s new policy of forcing you to be online to launch the game I can’t recommend it. Especially if you use a Steam Deck and don’t always have internet access. If you don’t mind that then grab it as its still one of the best AC games ever made!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY, Kenways fleet will not load and after much research. It seems Ubisoft is uninterested in fixing it. You will not find out until after the refund window has passed. This issue has been going on for years and they continue to sell a game you can't complete.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gosh, this game is horrible. First of all, when you download it, Ubisoft's launcher is what you have to get passed first. There's no way around it. LITERALLY. You are forced to create an account. Unfortunately, that account is IMMEDIATELY locked and you have to contact Ubisoft support, who will then do absolutely nothing to help. ... and that's it. That's the whole game. What utter garbage. To summarize, DON'T BUY GAMES FROM SCUMBAG DEVS WHO FORCE YOU INTO THEIR FLAMING-GARBAGE-PILE ECOSYSTEM.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuhSPOtNXks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5vxChqmA0g
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every start-up they force you to login to the Ubisoft launcher again, but I learned to live with that. But guess what? This awful forced launcher doesn't sync your savegame. Moved to a new machine, savegame gone. Thanks a lot!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No, just because Ubisoft connect doesn't allow you play games that you already own.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is great, but Ubisoft connect is sh*t
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best AC Games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ubisoft has lost touch with reality. It is a shame that I bought this game so long ago and only recently started replaying it, otherwise, I would have returned it immediately. It is abysmal that you have to log into Ubisoft's stupid launcher every time or nearly every time the game launches. It is supposed to be "once a day" but I have found that to be a lie. Shame that there is no way to fight against companies that enforce ridiculous policies like this. Otherwise, the game is what I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →why the hell cant i play the game because of this ubisoft connect problem thing that already happen more than 2 days
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the start of my third playthrough of the game. I've wanted to replay it again for a few years, and seeing videos of Black Flag Resynced pushed me over the edge (and into a stack of hay). For anyone wondering, the original Black Flag still holds up. Because it can so easily run on max settings, it looks gorgeous. The only noticeable downside is that the faces look awful in conversations, but it doesn't affect the enjoyment of the game. The sailing gameplay is still incredible, still…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic game, but it's broken on modern PCs and I highly doubt that ubisoft is going to consider fixing it now that resynced is out.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ahoy there matey… I been out on the waves for ten hours straight. Ten! Didn't do a single lick of proper work (quest), just chased the horizon from island to island and smashed into every boat I saw. The deck is spinnin' but the loot was good. Absolute chaos, I love this game. So join the chorus, matey! "What will we do with a drunken sailor? What will we do with a drunken sailor? What will we do with a drunken sailor? Early in the morning" 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game made in ubisofts prime I have so many great times on this game but now im bombing it over how ubisoft has done the new unreal engine 5 resynced 1stly making us rebuy the game already bad not to mention the reported state of it and how it wasnt transfered well 2nd making people who had the dlcs rebuy for the new game and then defending that greedy pricepoint of 60 dollars for a 13 year old game that just had a unreal engine upgrade how come some minor studios upgrade their system…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the Best AC Games That Barely Feels Like OneAssassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is still the best pirate game ever made. Sailing through the Caribbean, upgrading the Jackdaw, boarding ships, hunting treasure, listening to sea shanties and exploring every island in sight never gets old. But the game never really needed the Assassin's Creed name. The Assassin and Templar story is there, but Black Flag is a pirate adventure first. Without the title, most people probably would not even notice.…
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