Assassin's Creed Shadows

Assassin's Creed Shadows is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Québec and released in 2025. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ubisoft Anvil.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, historical, open world and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 75 achievements to unlock.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is the 192nd of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed Shadows: Thrown to the Dogs in 2025. Its critic score of 85 is 10 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Assassin's Creed III: Deluxe Edition at 96.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Players rate it 79, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

The main story runs about 35 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 74 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path.

The minimum specification calls for INTEL® Core TM i7 8700K AMD RYZEN 5 3600, 16 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GEFORCE GTX 1650 4GB / AMD RX-5500 XT 8GB / INTEL® ARC TM A380 6GB (REBAR ON)". A 16GB memory requirement is demanding — worth checking before you buy, because 8GB is still common in older and budget machines. It also needs around 115GB of free storage, which is a real consideration on a 512GB drive. 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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Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Indonesia is the cheapest region we track at Rp 799,000 (about $44.59), while United Kingdom pays £59.99 — 1.8 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 51 on Steam, which is about $50.99.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows launched on 20 March 2025, within three weeks of Inzoi, Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds and Blue Prince. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Inzoi, Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds, Blue Prince.

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