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Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Developer Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Belgrade, Ubisoft Bordeaux
Assassin's Creed Shadows is a 2025 action role-playing game developed by Ubisoft Quebec and published by Ubisoft. It is the fourteenth main installment in the Assassin's Creed series and the successor to Assassin's Creed Mirage (2023). Set in 16th-century Japan towards the end of the Sengoku period, the game focuses on the millennia-old struggle between the Assassin Brotherhood, who fight for peace and liberty, and… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
423 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
46
Mixed
123 positive · 142 negative
95% range 41–52%
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| Steam reviews | 123 | 142 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
158 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
30,185 of 40,414 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 423 · most liked firstPetting animals in Assassin's Creed Shadows unlocks them for your hideout, where you can place dozens of new friends.
unlabelledView post →NEWS: Assassin's Creed Shadows is delayed again, now to March 20, Ubisoft says, as the company pursues "various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders" (looks for a potential sale).
unlabelledView post →Oh shit, Assassin's Creed: Shadows has tone tags in its subtitles for non verbal subtext?!?! Apparently called soemething like "Emotional Indicators" I have been advocating for game devs to try this as an autism accessibility option for YEARS!!! I can't believe someone's finally doing it!!!!
unlabelledView post →So... I notice that the cats from Assassin's Creed Shadows have cat eyes responding to the lighting, distance and angle of the camera. Superb job! 🐈⬛🐈👁️👁️
unlabelledView post →Finished the game but I honestly can't give it a thumbs up, it's possibly the most frustrating AC game I've played and I've played them all. Your greatest enemy in this game is the camera and controls who constantly double-team you into submission.. and you cannot defeat them. The amount of times I got stuck on world geometry is also unacceptable. And the complete lack of the real world story.. ugh.. I know it's divisive but that was always one of my favourite things in these games; the mystery…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What an incredibly frustrating experience this is. I was actually a fan of the new open world rpg-ish direction Ubisoft took with Assassins's Creed, and remain a resolute fan of Odyssey and even Valhalla to a degree. But my god whatever the f*ck they did with Shadows, it does NOT work. 4/10 - The game world, while pretty, is as empty and boring as it gets. There is almost nothing to do aside from conquering enemy camps. Imagine Valhalla's map, but everything except for the enemy bases, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Assassin's Creed Shadows has reached 2 million players
unlabelledView post →Ubisoft Brasil has shared a new trailer for Assassin's Creed Shadows, created in tokusatsu style! More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokusatsu (via @TheRealZephryss)
unlabelledView post →Assassin's Creed Shadows (2025)
unlabelledView post →The backlash over Yasuke being in Assassin's Creed: Shadows is hilarious because these fools know it's a fictional game but whine about historical accuracy. Yasuke was a samurai in Dynasty Warriors, but all of a sudden he isn't. The game isn't even out yet. All this bitching about woke is dumb.
unlabelledView post →Ubisoft Brazil gets top notches for the way they went full tokusatsu marketing for Assassin's Creed Shadows
unlabelledView post →@ubisoft.com You guys could have made so much money from me if you'd had more in-game purchase cats for Assassin's Creed: Shadows. Would've started a whole damn cat sanctuary at the hideout. 😔
unlabelledView post →Here's a fun one... Assassin's Creed: Shadows has been the best-selling video game in the US for each of its first 3 weeks in market, according to Circana's Retail Tracking Service (dollar sales, latest data through April 5th). Currently ranks #2 year-to-date trailing only Monster Hunter: Wilds.
unlabelledView post →-Purchase and downloaded game -Need Ubisoft account -Tried creating a new account -Sorry cannot complete at this time. Try again later -Uninstall Game -Request Refund Classic Ubisoft
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was enjoying Assassin’s Creed Shadows at first, even though it has a lot of performance problems. I’m running an RTX 5090 and still struggle to reach 60 frames per second. It’s ridiculous — I can play Red Dead Redemption 2 at 4K with 120 FPS, but this game barely manages 30–50 FPS at the same resolution. Like most Ubisoft titles, it’s a massive map filled with repetitive tasks and endless collectibles that have little to no impact on the actual gameplay. For the first 10 hours, I was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →5 hours with Assassin's Creed Shadows reveals a game that is unsuccessfully trying to remix the core Assassin's Creed gameplay loops, splitting them out across two separate characters in a way that feels awkward and poorly thought out. My impressions: youtu.be/aAlobYH_zzM?...
unlabelledView post →Assassin's Creed: Shadows releases in less than 72 hours and it's fucking insane that employees are being advised not to post that they worked on the game as to avoid harassment. www.bfmtv.com/tech/gaming/...
unlabelledView post →Ubisoft has truly mastered one thing: selling the same game over and over again, just with a different postcard in the background. This time, the postcard happens to be Japan. If you’ve played Origins, Odyssey, or Valhalla, you already know exactly what you’re getting. Climb towers. Reveal the map. Clear icons. Repeat. The progression system, quest structure, loot treadmill — it’s all comfort food at this point. Very familiar. Almost aggressively familiar. Somewhere around the halfway mark, I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve played every Assassin’s Creed game, often buying multiple copies, and I spent over 200 hours in Shadows, loving the atmosphere and the incredible open world (even if a bit empty). I definitely enjoyed it, even though it never reaches the narrative strength of Bayek in Origins. I uninstalled the game because DLC from Ubisoft Connect does not work with the Steam version. My accounts are linked, the DLC is activated, but the game refuses to load it. Ubisoft has silently disabled cross‑store…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Forty Hours of Nothing Oh god, what has Ubisoft become? It's so sad what once a leading exciting game studio become a liver service soulless game developer.I never want to see Ubisoft go bankrupt, because why would I want a major AAA game studio to go down? People would lose their jobs and we would get fewer games, it's not a win for anyone. But playing games like Shadows makes me question this thought. I had already played Assassin's Creed Shadows before I actually played it. If you have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another disappointing entry in the franchise. I cannot say this is a bad game, the gameplay is fine, but the overall game is so shallow and boring that I cannot in good conscience recommend it. Just like Valhalla and Odyssey, this one is just too long. I can see every decision made to maximise playtime and expose you to the microtransaction store as much as possible. I see no other explanation. I just cannot look past the monotony and shallowness of Act 2 and 95% of the side content, all of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Japanese game developer Hideki Kamiya, known for titles such as Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, and Bayonetta, has reacted to the controversy over Assassin's Creed Shadows: He says that there is a silent majority of "normal people" who don't care and will just play & enjoy the game.
unlabelledView post →Assassin's Creed Shadows tops 2 million players, "surpassing" the launches of Origins and Odyssey www.eurogamer.net/assassins-cr...
unlabelledView post →Pretty, yet shallow and falls flat, wasting the massive potential it had. 80% done with the game: - Game is too big, as in the literal sense; a LOT of areas to explore, with nothing to do. Does make a good photo capture game though? - Combat is reduced to monotonous button smashing and parrying is VERY generous. - Stealth is without a doubt the best part of the game, but Yasuke has none. - Naoe starts of as an interesting character, but loses all credibility and integrity in act 2. -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The biggest launches in #AssassinsCreed history 🎮 1️⃣ 'Assassin's Creed Valhalla' 2️⃣ 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' (via The Game Business)
unlabelledView post →A new addition to the "Stream your own game" library is emerging from the darkness soon. Stay on your toes for Assassin's Creed Shadows: xbx.lv/4heOdsm
unlabelledView post →Japanese pond turtle #AnimalMonday Assassin's Creed Shadows #AssassinsCreedShadows #AssassinsCreed #VirtualPhotography
unlabelledView post →After almost 90 hours, I feel finally ready to articulate why I feel Assassins Creed Shadows is a fairly mediocre game. There are 3 primary criticisms I would level at Assassins Creed: Shadows. From least important to most important: 1. A fairly mediocre artistic direction. I think that engaging environmental and artistic design is very important to make a game enjoyable to play. In fact, the more video games I play, the more important I believe art direction to be (along with music…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If I'd have to describe the word "average" to someone I'd probably show them this game. If you are happy by just running from quest marker to quest marker for hours on end, then I highly recommend this game. Because that's pretty much all you do for the entire game. And I personally found it oddly satisfying to just turn off my brain and wander through the admittedly very beautiful open world - hence the positive review. But if you actually have some higher standards when it comes to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Assassin's Creed: Shadows Sunset on the horizon
unlabelledView post →Look what just landed 🥷 Assassin's Creed Shadows is available to play now: xbx.lv/4kACZkR
unlabelledView post →Bought a single-player game and got an always-online gatekeeper instead. Assassin’s Creed Shadows refuses to launch offline because Ubisoft Connect needs constant authentication. That means no internet = no access to a game I already paid for. This isn’t about multiplayer, this is basic single-player functionality. I travel and don’t always have a stable connection, so this design choice makes the game unreliable at best and unusable at worst. If you’re going to require online checks, be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like the setting (Samurai Japan) and to be honest the story isn't half bad either. The visuals are gorgeous but unfortunately it is not optimised. I have a beefy PC (7900xtx) and I try to play most games without FSR, I don't mind reducing the graphical fidelity (medium/high settings) to avoid FSR, also don't care too much about raytracing, I play on HDR and this is enough for me. Other games managed to turn things around and optimise (Stalker 2) even when all hope was lost - if this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Assassin's Creed: Shadows The rising sun
unlabelledView post →I’ll never understand Ubisoft. Idk why they do this every single time. AC Shadows looks incredible in every way, the engine, gameplay, graphics, environment, atmosphere, world design, the whole vibe is just perfect. But why kill a game this beautiful with boring, repetitive bloat just to inflate the playtime? Like, do some gamers actually enjoy grinding the same loop for 40-50 hours? At first, you’re genuinely loving the world, but then you get sucked into this exhausting cycle of copy-pasted…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Assassin's Creed Shadows is beautiful Starting my screenshot journey across 1579 Japan 📸😄 #AssassinsCreedShadows #PS5Pro
unlabelledView post →Assassin's Creed Shadows, or something. Idk I didn't play the game - #assassinscreed #brart #acshadows @ubisoft.com @ubisoftbr.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →I've completed 100% of the game. I've done everything I could do in base game and DLC, I did ALL the achievements, so now it's time for my honest opinion on the whole thing. PROS: +4 Yasuke's story arc. He's brilliantly written, a very likeable character, and even though he's a historical figure and his story is fictional, the whole thing is told realistically, giving plenty of reasons why he's in Japan, what drives him, why we don't hear about his achievements in history, etc. +3 The scouts…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Assassin's Creed Shadows looks amazing and I'm rooting for it to succeed. No room for negativity here.
unlabelledView post →Assassin's Creed Shadows PC giveaway, thanks to Ubisoft! 🥷 Repost and comment to enter, tell me what AC game is your favorite! ##AssassinsCreedShadows
unlabelledView post →I fully cleared 2 regions - it took me 37 hours. There were still 7 regions left 👀😒, and I realized I wasn’t ready to spend more time on it 😑. I could easily run around Ancient Egypt for 200 hours in AC Origins, or spend 120 hours in Odyssey or Valhalla -- but not here. Aesthetically, this one just isn’t for me. The game is built on quantity, not quality. The game has about 7,294,932 missions and 42,048 km of distance to cover - of which 30,000 km is just running through bushes and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shadows — the Assassin’s Creed of feudal Japan. Naoe and Yasuke. Between Kuji-kiri and Katas, between corrupt bandits and samurai clans, between conspiracies and dark secret organizations working against the empire. For me — and of course in this review I am speaking only for myself — Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the best Assassin’s Creed I have ever played. I can’t relate to all the “criticisms” and reviews from gaming journalists. Most of them are completely exaggerated, and the community…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What did the devs do to this game. It crashes every 30 minutes. The game was mostly fine when it first came out so WTF happened. I loved this game at first but coming back in 26 This game is dam near unplayable with the constant crashing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I needed to blog about how good Assassin's Creed Shadows is at hills and forests for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/assassins-cr...
unlabelledView post →Ubisoft has delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows once again, this time by a month to March 20 "to better incorporate the player feedback gathered over the past three months." www.ign.com/articles/ass...
unlabelledView post →This is the best part about Assassin's Creed Shadows 🥹 ##AssassinsCreedShadows
unlabelledView post →After just one week in market (w/e 4.26) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered is already the 3rd best-selling game of 2025 in the US ($ sales) trailing only Monster Hunter: Wilds and Assassin's Creed: Shadows. It was the best-selling game of the week. Source: Circana Retail Tracking Service
unlabelledView post →~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it 🔲 Easy ✅ Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 Dark Souls ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Graphics dont matter in this game 🔲 Good ✅ Beautiful ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Bad 🔲 Not special ✅ Good 🔲 Eargasm ~ STORY ~ 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Like playing Temple Runners for the story ✅ It's there for the people who want it 🔲 Well written 🔲 Epic story ~ PRICE ~ 🔲 Free 🔲 Underpriced 🔲 Perfect Price ✅ Could be cheaper 🔲…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Naoe Fujibayashi -- Assassin's Creed: Shadows
unlabelledView post →Graphics are really good and the game itself is fun for a few hours but then it gets very repetitive and very boring fast. Every mission is similiar. I pushed myself to see the ending which is also garbage
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First snaps from Assassin's Creed Shadows 📸 This game is beautiful 😍
unlabelledView post →Naoe Fujibayashi -- Assassin's Creed: Shadows
unlabelledView post →Fujibayashi Naoe -- Assassin's Creed: Shadows
unlabelledView post →Assassin's Creed: Shadows I love it so much when a game launches with photomode
unlabelledView post →June Discord poll winner: Naoe Fujibayashi-- Assassin's Creed: Shadows
unlabelledView post →Assassin's Creed: Shadows Four Seasons
unlabelledView post →My latest @RollingStone features exclusive dev interviews and several hours of hands-on gameplay with Assassin's Creed Shadows. I was surprised at what I saw when I went to Quebec City, and I think you might be too... www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...
unlabelledView post →September Patreon poll winner: Naoe Fujibayashi -- Assassin's Creed: Shadows
unlabelledView post →Assassin's Creed Shadows is the second best-selling game in the US in 2025 so far, behind Monster Hunter Wilds. It has also been the top selling game for each of its first 3 weeks since launch. Via: Circana (NPD) ➡️ @matpiscatella.bsky.social #AssassinsCreedShadows
unlabelledView post →Playing AC Shadows has made me realize that game review channels are either overly critical or I’m just easily impressed. Honestly, both are probably true. That said, this game is awesome. The prologue introducing both protagonists is incredibly compelling. I’m genuinely invested in where both of their stories are headed, which surprises me, especially since I wasn’t initially very interested in playing Yasuke as a fighter rather than a traditional assassin. I’m also really enjoying the side…
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