{"id":1153944,"date":"2026-02-08T21:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5AVg3MMxaekvuuezBCvAcF"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:25:12","slug":"after-ubi-came-crawlin-back-to-steam-assassins-creed-shadows-blasts-past-a-million-players-in-under-24-hours-and-has-already-smashed-valhallas-player-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/after-ubi-came-crawlin-back-to-steam-assassins-creed-shadows-blasts-past-a-million-players-in-under-24-hours-and-has-already-smashed-valhallas-player-record\/","title":{"rendered":"After Ubi came crawlin&#8217; back to Steam, Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows blasts past a million players in under 24 hours and has already smashed Valhalla&#8217;s player record"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Bad news for Nobunaga and his ambitions: Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows has parkoured past 1,000,000 players in under 24 hours. Naturally, Ubisoft immediately bragged about it on social media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s not even 4PM here in Canada and Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows has already passed 1 million players!Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts for joining this adventure in Feudal Japan. We are beyond excited to start this journey with you! \ud83d\udc9d pic.twitter.com\/1cqwABrQfN<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1902802072640295067\">March 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ubisoft specifies &#8216;players&#8217; rather than &#8216;sales&#8217; here, mind you, and I reckon there are two reasons for that. The first is that more than a few of those shinobi will have accessed the game via their Ubisoft+ subscriptions instead of buying the game outright, so it&#8217;d be inaccurate to call them buyers.<\/p>\n<p>The second\u2014and I&#8217;m making some assumptions here\u2014is that I think Ubi delights in making my life, specifically, harder. It&#8217;s never been consistent in how it reports its own success. Back when AC Valhalla was the new hotness, the company only boasted that it was its <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/assassins-creed-valhalla-is-ubisofts-biggest-pc-game-launch-ever\/\">biggest PC launch ever<\/a>, without giving hard numbers. So is Shadows doing better than Valhalla Your guess is as good as mine, but Ubisoft at least seems pretty happy with how the game&#8217;s doing so far.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be surprised if it <em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em> doing better than the previous game in the series, though, if only because this is the first AC in a long time to hit Steam on launch day. I might be a freak in many respects, but I reckon I&#8217;m far from the only person whose policy with Ubisoft games has always been to wait for them to come unstuck from Ubisoft Connect and arrive on Steam before I finally buy them. I like having all my stuff on the same digital shelf, what can I say?<\/p>\n<p>We do have <em>some<\/em> numbers, though, even if they don&#8217;t come from Ubisoft itself. Shadows is sitting pretty right now with an all-time peak concurrent player count of 41,412 per <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/charts\/?sort=peak\" target=\"_blank\">SteamDB<\/a>. That puts it squarely in third place, ahead of Valhalla but behind Origins and Odyssey. I&#8217;d be astounded if it didn&#8217;t at least pip ahead of Origins, though\u2014it only needs to beat its current peak by about 100 players and it&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>Which, hey, I reckon it will. PCG&#8217;s Morgan Park thought the game was pretty darn good in his <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/assassins-creed-shadows-review\/\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows review<\/a>, scoring the game 80% and praising it as a &#8220;stealth action buffet&#8221; with &#8220;surprisingly great combat,&#8221; even if the story didn&#8217;t grab him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"71e17554-258b-4e54-af48-5af7b15f5c46\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"AC Shadows review\" data-dimension48=\"AC Shadows review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1080px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"ZtpqSTuMhGRvPUGkubDKRU\" name=\"ac shadows boxout\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/after-ubi-came-crawlin-back-to-steam-assassins-creed-shadows-blasts-past-a-million-players-in-under-24-hours-and-has-already-smashed-valhallas-player-record.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/assassins-creed-shadows-review\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"71e17554-258b-4e54-af48-5af7b15f5c46\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"AC Shadows review\" data-dimension48=\"AC Shadows review\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>AC Shadows review<\/strong><\/a>: Late bloomer<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/ac-shadows-best-weapons\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best AC Shadows weapons<\/strong><\/a>: Superior firepower<strong><br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/ac-shadows-best-armour\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best AC Shadows armour<\/strong><\/a>: The best threads<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/ac-shadows-skills-best\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best AC Shadows skills<\/strong><\/a>: Level up<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/ac-shadows-scouts-increase\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AC Shadows scouts<\/strong><\/a>: Get more trusty recons<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/ac-shadows-rations-upgrades\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AC Shadows rations<\/strong><\/a>: Get more healing items<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/ac-shadows-shadow-projects-unlock-rewards\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AC Shadows Shadow Projects<\/strong><\/a>: Free loot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/after-ubi-came-crawlin-back-to-steam-assassins-creed-shadows-blasts-past-a-million-players-in-under-24-hours-and-has-already-smashed-valhallas-player-record\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for Nobunaga and his ambitions: Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows has parkoured past 1,000,000 players in under 24 hours. Naturally, Ubisoft immediately bragged about it on social media. It&#8217;s not even 4PM here in Canada and Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows has already passed 1 million players!Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts for joining this adventure in Feudal Japan. We are beyond excited to start this journey with you! \ud83d\udc9d pic.twitter.com\/1cqwABrQfNMarch 20, 2025 Ubisoft specifies &#8216;players&#8217; rather than &#8216;sales&#8217; here, mind you, and I reckon there are two reasons for that. The first is that more than a few of those shinobi will have accessed the game via their Ubisoft+ subscriptions instead of buying the game outright, so it&#8217;d be inaccurate to call them buyers.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/after-ubi-came-crawlin-back-to-steam-assassins-creed-shadows-blasts-past-a-million-players-in-under-24-hours-and-has-already-smashed-valhallas-player-record\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1153945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[23,296,748],"class_list":["post-1153944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-action","tag-assassins-creed","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>After Ubi came crawlin&#039; back to Steam, Assassin&#039;s Creed Shadows blasts past a million players in under 24 hours and has already smashed Valhalla&#039;s player record | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bad news for Nobunaga and his ambitions: Assassin&#039;s Creed Shadows has parkoured past 1,000,000 players in under 24 hours. 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