Assassin's Creed Shadow hit 2 million players 2 days after release, Ubisoft says it's now surpassing Origins and Odyssey launches
Blog Andrew Joseph 22 Mar , 2025 0
Ubisoft praises another Assassin's Creed Shadow Player milestone, but the game's sales figures have not been confirmed yet.
exist Social Media PostsUbisoft said Shadows has seen 2 million players since its sale on March 20, compared with 1 million on the first day.
Ubisoft added that this is enough to surpass the origins of Assassin's Creed and the launch of the Odyssey. “Thank you for joining the Japanese feudal journey!”
It's an impressive start for Assassin's Creed Shadow, but it's worth mentioning that Ubisoft has yet to announce sales figures for the game. Still, we do know that this is the best-selling game on Steam.
At the time of this article’s publication, the shadow of Assassin’s Creed was 58,894 concurrent players on Steam, enough to break into the 30 most popular games on Valve’s platform. The peak is expected to rise as we continue to enter the opening weekend of the competition.
For comparison, Origins' historical steam peak was 41,551 seven years ago and Odyssey peaked at 62,069. It seems that later this weekend, Shadows may be the most played game on Steam.
Bioware's single player RPG Dragon Age: Veil Launched on Steam on Thursday, October 31, 2024 and saw a peak of 89,418 players on Valve’s platform.
The true concurrency peak for Assassin's Creed Shadow will of course be higher, as it is also launched on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox series X and S. Neither Sony nor Microsoft have disclosed player numbers.
After multiple delays and last year’s sales failure, the Assassin’s Creed shadow puts a lot of pressure on Ubisoft “Star Wars”. Indeed, Ubisoft suffered a lot High-profile slippers,,,,, Layoffs,,,,, Studio closeand Game Cancel In the release of Assassin's Creed Shadow. Ubisoft's situation has become so bad that its founding Guillemot family and its largest shareholders are Negotiations are being reportedly being conducted with large Chinese Tencent and other investors In the acquisition agreement, control may be retained.
The Assassin's Creed Shadow also encountered many controversies themselves, especially in Japan. This week, IGN confirmed Ubisoft quietly releases all day long shadows of Assassin's Creed This seems to have made many important changes to some Japanese politicians' attention to in-game temples and shrines.
During an extraordinary exchange this week, Japanese politician and Japanese member of the House of Representatives Hiroyuki Kada raised the question of Assassin's Creed shadow at an official government meeting and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba responds.
Every Assassin's Creed Game Layer
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At least on Steam, the shadow of Assassin's Creed is going very well with the players. It has a “very positive” user evaluation rating, with 81% of over 6,000 user reviews marked as positive. IGN's Assassin's Creed Shadow Review Returned 8/10. We said: “By sharpening the edges of its existing system, Assassin’s Creed Shadow has created one of the best versions of the open world style that has been honed over the past decade.”
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