The Daily Populous Sunday March 23rd, 2025 night edition
Authored by gameluster.com and submitted by TokyoDrifblim

Ubisoft has announced that just two days since launch, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has surpassed 2 million players across platforms. This beats the total player count from the launches of both Assassin’s Creed Origins and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, two of the most successful titles in the franchise. This is a great start for Ubisoft’s latest stealthy offering, especially given its somewhat positive reception, but there are some questions that remain unanswered.

The phrasing of having two million “players” rather than ‘copies sold’ is rather intentional, as Assassin’s Creed Shadows is also available on Ubisoft+, the subscription service that allows players access to the latest Ubisoft games including Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Whilst these subscribers do still make money for Ubisoft, they aren’t worth as much as an actual game sale, especially if the subscriptions don’t renew once the player is done with the game.

Looking at Steam charts does add some additional context to where Assassin’s Creed Shadows is at with its commercial performance. It’s currently the second most concurrently played Assassin’s Creed game on Steam with over 54,000 players today, second only to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s peak concurrent player count of 62,000. This is still rising at the time of writing, so there may be a follow-up if the game manages to surpass Odyssey. This suggests that the game is at least performing okay if it’s comparable to the big success of Odyssey.

Have you tried out Assassin’s Creed Shadows yet? If so, what are you thinking of the game so far? Do you think this will be a success for Ubisoft? Sound off your thoughts in the comments down below, and keep your eyes on GameLuster for more breaking gaming news and Assassin’s Creed Shadows coverage.

OverAddition6264 on March 22nd, 2025 at 19:56 UTC »

This is players, this doesn’t mean sales.

ShearAhr on March 22nd, 2025 at 16:37 UTC »

Odyssey still has a higher peak on Steam than Shadows, which doesn’t add up.

The numbers just don’t make sense. They aren’t aligning with other games that have had great sales.

Take Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, they announced 2 million sales after a few weeks, and its Steam peak was 250k. Meanwhile, Assassin’s Creed Shadows just hit 2 million, yet the peak is only 60k? Not saying it has to be similar but it should be somewhat higher unless PC gamers don't care about it.

Something doesn’t add up here.

aseedman on March 22nd, 2025 at 16:22 UTC »

Great game. Happy people are playing.