Assassin’s Creed Shadows Is Second Best Selling Game in the US in 2025

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a bona fide success for Ubisoft. The action-adventure title has been the best-selling sport in the US all through the three weeks since its launch, as per the newest knowledge from market analysis agency Circana. Whereas Ubisoft has not shared unit gross sales determine for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the firm has confirmed the sport is the sequence’ second largest launch.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows US Gross sales

Based on Circana’s newest gross sales knowledge by April 5, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been the high promoting sport in the US for every of its first 3 weeks in market. Circana’s Mat Piscatella, who shared the replace in a put up on Bluesky on Monday, additionally confirmed that Assassin’s Creed Shadows was the second best-selling sport of 2025 in the US to date, trailing solely Capcom’s Monster Hunter Wilds in the gross sales chart.

Whereas Ubisoft has not shared gross sales figures, Circana’s knowledge suggests the sport has been successful for the French firm. Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been performed by over three million individuals, as per Ubisoft. The action-adventure title additionally recorded the second highest day one gross sales income in Assassin’s Creed franchise historical past, making it the second largest launch in sequence historical past behind Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which launched in 2020. Ubisoft additionally confirmed final month that Shadows was the greatest day-one launch on the PlayStation Retailer for the firm.

Based on SteamDB charts, the Japan-set action-RPG has seen an all-time peak concurrent participant rely of 64,825 on Steam. Shadows launched on Steam in addition to Ubisoft Join on PC, alongside PS5 and Xbox Collection S/X.

Ubisoft had been banking on the sport’s success after a sequence of misfiring AAA releases that resulted in the firm’s inventory value falling 40 p.c in 2024. Final month, the firm introduced a brand new devoted subsidiary for its core IPs of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six. The subsidiary is backed by a €1.16 billion (roughly Rs. 10,694 crore) funding from Chinese language conglomerate Tencent, which holds a minority stake in the new entity.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows launched on March 20 throughout PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection S/X. The sport is about in sixteenth century Japan and follows the tales of its twin protagonists — Naoe, a shinobi, and Yasuke, a samurai.