Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is off to a robust begin on Steam, with round 100,000 concurrent gamers — greater than some other title in the franchise up to now.
Ubisoft’s ground-up remake of its beloved pirate journey recreation at the moment has launch peak of 99,451 gamers at the time of writing, making it comfortably the collection’ greatest ever launch on Steam.
By comparability, 2025’s feudal Japan-set Assassin’s Creed Shadows recorded a launch peak of 64,825 gamers, whereas the Historical Greek-set Assassin’s Creed Odyssey earned 62,069. Not all Assassin’s Creed video games have appeared on Steam at launch (the hugely-popular Viking entry Valhalla turned up later), so comparisons aren’t fully easy.
Nonetheless, no different Assassin’s Creed recreation comes near matching Black Flag’s early haul, which can possible show a reduction for writer Ubisoft after a turbulent few years of layoffs, delays, and underwhelming gross sales.
Black Flag Resynced had been anticipated to carry out properly on Steam, after a report this week recommended pre-orders on the PC platform had been 5.39 instances increased than these for Shadows. Impressively, this additionally signifies that Resynced has already crushed the lifetime gross sales of Cranium & Bones, Ubisoft’s pricey, long-in-development pirate spinoff from Black Flag that ultimately emerged in 2024.
“Greater than only a shinier model of the identical recreation you bear in mind, Murderer’s Creed Black Flag Resynced brings what was already considered one of the greatest video games in the collection as much as at present’s requirements,” IGN wrote in our Murderer’s Creed Black Flag Resynced assessment, dredging up a superb 9/10 rating.
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