Prior to Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the last few Assassin’s Creed titles launched exclusively on Ubisoft Connect, with their Steam releases arriving later.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is officially here, and the game has debuted to the franchise's highest Steam player count, which will be encouraging for Ubisoft.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is an incredible success for Ubisoft, and it couldn't have come at a better time for the company. After game shutdowns, lackluster launches, and studio closures, it needed a win. But an internal memo warns staff not to compare it to Valhalla.

Assassin's Creed Shadows just hit another milestone, putting it just a katana slash away from becoming the biggest game in the series.

Final numbers are in. Assassin's Creed Shadows did 27.5% worse than Dragon Age Veilguard on PC. The final weekend numbers shows AC peaked 2 hours ago at 64,825. It never broke into the top 20 played games on Steam. pic.twitter.com/j4zGkolPwd