Impressive Success From Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Assassin’s Creed Shadows past one million players on its launch day, which is remarkable success for the first day.
The Success of Assassin’s Creed Shadows
The highly requested Feudal Japan setting in an Assassin’s Creed game is a reality at last, thanks to the much awaited release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Besides the fascinating time period, the action RPG also features an intriguing pairing of two very different protagonists, a samurai named Yasuke and a shinobi known as Naoe. The saga of these dual main characters has been received fairly well at launch, with the action adventure title earning an average score of 81 on OpenCritic. Now, it has also been shared that the strong reception goes beyond critics’ reviews, with a multitude of players checking out the game at present.
On Twitter, Assassin’s Creed Shadows announced that its player base had already crossed the one million mark, just around 15 hours after rolling out across platforms. A few hours prior to this update, it was also revealed that the Ubisoft Quebec developed title had topped Steam’s Top Sellers chart in next to no time, leapfrogging other recent hits such as Monster Hunter Wilds and Split Fiction. Moreover, at the time of writing, the well received Assassin’s Creed sequel also boasts a peak of 41,412 concurrent players on Steam, per SteamDB data.
The initial response from fans to Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been quite incredible so far, getting the latest entry in the long-running historical series off to a solid start. Its 41K+ peak concurrent player count on Steam is more than that of the previous two Assassin’s Creed titles, Mirage (7,870) and Valhalla (15,679), combined. On the critical front, the 81-rated Shadows is well ahead of its 2023 predecessor, which has an average score of 76. However, the newly released game is still marginally behind Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s score of 83.
This success for Assassin’s Creed Shadows is undoubtedly a big relief for Ubisoft, which endured a particularly underwhelming year in 2024 with its big releases, such as Star Wars Outlaws and XDefiant, falling short of the company’s expectations.
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