Assassin's Creed Shadows (2025)

Ubisoft Québec

Mac · Nintendo Switch 2 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

3.43 from 145 ratings

485 members have it in their collection · 38 playing now · 165 backlogged · 336 wish listed

How long? Main story 37h · with extras 80h · 100% 81h (from 15 logged playthroughs)

Experience an epic historical action-adventure story set in feudal Japan! Become a lethal shinobi Assassin and a powerful legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos. Switch seamlessly between two unlikely allies as you discover their common destiny. Master complementary playstyles, create your shinobi league, customize your hideout, and usher in a new era for Japan.
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Release dates

  • Mar 20, 2025 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
  • Dec 02, 2025 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch 2

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Assassin's Creed by AlisShade · 14 games · 0
GOTY 2025 by LarsFrukt · 40 games · 0

Rating distribution

5 stars
22
4 stars
49
3 stars
53
2 stars
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1 star
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Community All Reviews Statuses

Sir_Laguna

Status Sir_Laguna Jun 21, 2026

Finished the with the quests added in the last free update. That was a better climax for the story than the actual "ending".

ace_always

Status ace_always May 3, 2026

This game infuriates me to no end. Beautiful world, great historical settings, pretty good parkour this time around, and yet Ubisoft did nothing with it. They still stuck with the same old disjointed story missions, uninteresting characters, facial animation that looks worse than 10 years ago and the open world activities are still the same old repetitive slop. After 20 …

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This game infuriates me to no end. Beautiful world, great historical settings, pretty good parkour this time around, and yet Ubisoft did nothing with it. They still stuck with the same old disjointed story missions, uninteresting characters, facial animation that looks worse than 10 years ago and the open world activities are still the same old repetitive slop. After 20 hours into this game trying to complete everything on the map, I gave up and just made a beeline to the ending. The worst part is that I found the last few hours to be actually quite interesting as it revealed the backstory for both characters and the ongoing conflict of Templar vs Assassins in Japan, but the actual process of getting there is dreadful. The ending is quite a slap in the face too, but I don't really care because at that point I just wanted the game to end more than anything.

I finished the game in 35 hours, which is half the time I spent on Death Stranding 2 last month. In that game, I also did repetitive tasks, compulsively trying to finish every delivery, but not once I found myself thinking "this is boring, I should just focus on story missions". It's very weird now that I think about it.

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BMO

Status BMO Apr 18, 2025

Ubi released an update within the last week to add things like bulk item management and auto horse navigation but they introduced some pretty bad stutter to the game related to shader caching. They put out a hot fix two days ago to fix the stutter and so far it’s basically broken the game.

  • Shader compilation stutter is still present …
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Ubi released an update within the last week to add things like bulk item management and auto horse navigation but they introduced some pretty bad stutter to the game related to shader caching. They put out a hot fix two days ago to fix the stutter and so far it’s basically broken the game.

  • Shader compilation stutter is still present
  • Control input randomly stops responding especially when standing or walking along a ledge making it hard to react if an enemy spots you
  • Physics are broken and when doing a quick evade that lets Naoe leap backwards away from enemies I go flying backward 5-10 metres.
  • Enemies are not being tagged as enemies, remain greyed out in Eagle Vision, and I can’t always properly target them.

A shame because this game was bug free at launch.

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BMO

Status BMO Apr 17, 2025

I don’t understand why, despite setting the game to immersive mode which is supposed to set all dialogue to Japanese and Portuguese depending on who is speaking, Yasuke and the jesuits speak in Japanese rather than Portuguese when speaking to each other.

BMO

Status BMO Apr 12, 2025

Returning to this after a week hiatus to work on a project, and it’s nice to just relax with a tea and invest in some sneaky stabby stabby shinobi time!

Sir_Laguna

Status Sir_Laguna Apr 9, 2025

I already finished this game and even got the Platinum Trophy, but I can't stop playing. It become a comfort game for me. Infiltrating castles to stealth kill daisho samurai, beating every enemy to pulp with an overpowered Yasuke, uncovering the map and doing the minigames is just... fun.

Not sure when I'm gonna stop. When I run out of …

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I already finished this game and even got the Platinum Trophy, but I can't stop playing. It become a comfort game for me. Infiltrating castles to stealth kill daisho samurai, beating every enemy to pulp with an overpowered Yasuke, uncovering the map and doing the minigames is just... fun.

Not sure when I'm gonna stop. When I run out of activities on the map? Its not like I don't have anything else to play.

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BMO

Status BMO Apr 8, 2025

I’ve read a number of professional reviews for this game lately that give me the impression that a number of critics don’t realize you can upgrade your gear.

May_Odaigahara

Status May_Odaigahara Apr 3, 2025

I'll be honest I'm having so much fun with this game. The stealth gameplay is some of the best I've experienced in years

BMO

Status BMO Mar 29, 2025

I love that NPCs hide from the rain under shelter during a storm instead of continuing to walk around unfazed. And those that do walk around act like someone waking in a storm and reacting to the hard rain and wind.