Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Has Already Earned the Series' Biggest Player Peak on Steam

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is disconnected to a beardown commencement connected Steam, with astir 100,000 concurrent players — much than immoderate different rubric successful the franchise to date.

Ubisoft's ground-up remake of its beloved pirate escapade crippled presently has motorboat highest of 99,451 players astatine the clip of writing, making it comfortably the series' champion ever motorboat connected Steam.

By comparison, 2025's feudal Japan-set Assassin's Creed Shadows recorded a motorboat highest of 64,825 players, portion the Ancient Greek-set Assassin's Creed Odyssey earned 62,069. Not each Assassin's Creed games person appeared connected Steam astatine motorboat (the hugely-popular Viking introduction Valhalla turned up later), truthful comparisons aren't wholly straightforward.

Still, nary different Assassin's Creed crippled comes adjacent to matching Black Flag's aboriginal haul, which volition apt beryllium a alleviation for steadfast Ubisoft aft a turbulent fewer years of layoffs, delays, and underwhelming sales.

Black Flag Resynced had been expected to execute good connected Steam, aft a study this week suggested pre-orders connected the PC level were 5.39 times higher than those for Shadows. Impressively, this besides means that Resynced has already beaten the beingness income of Skull & Bones, Ubisoft's costly, long-in-development pirate spinoff from Black Flag that yet emerged successful 2024.

"More than conscionable a shinier mentation of the aforesaid crippled you remember, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced brings what was already 1 of the champion games successful the bid up to today’s standards," IGN wrote successful our Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced review, dredging up a good 9/10 score.

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