With a new game coming out almost annually, Ubisoft’s series has seen a lot of growth, changꦰe, peaks, and valleys. It’s done some daring 💙and unusual things, but its core mechanics and design has mostly stayed the same, creating a series that’s almost always fun but also reliably safe to enjoy.

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Picking a favorite is a very personal endeavor, and it’s really down to which story, protagonist, setting, and mechanics you prefer. That said, some games have aged better than others, and some can be praised over others for their ingenuity and ambition. So here are the thirteen main-serie𝐆s Assassin’s Creed games, ranked.

Updated on March 24th, 2025 by Tom Hopkins: Assassin's Creed's long-awaited debut in Japan is finally out. Shadows introduces two new protagonists to the series, letting players live out the samurai fantasies. With that, we have revisited out ranking of all Assassin's Creed games to add in the latest title.

15 Assassin꧙’s Creed

Assassins Creed I Altair On Top Of A Wall.
Assassin's Creed
Open-World
Stealth
Action

Released
Nov🍰ember 14, 2007 💞
ESRB
M For Mature 17+ Due To Blꦫood, Strong Language, Violence
Developer(s)
☂Ubisoft Montrea💝l
Publisher(s)
Ubisoft
Engine
anvilnext, havok, scimitar𒁏
Sequel(s)
Assassin's Creed 2
Number of Players
Single Player ♑
Platform(s)
PC, PS3, Xbox 360
How Long To Beat
ꦿ 14.5 Ho🌠urs
How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
32 Hours

The first gam🅺e dazzled upon release, with its building on the then-popular wall-running gem Prince of Persia by allowing gamers the freedom to climb any surface and have total freedom of the city.

It also had that awesome twist about how you’re actually a boring Nolan North in the future playing through the memories of his ancestor. The game was cool for its time, and it set up mechanics which are still used to this day, but it was also repetitive with little variety and a frighteningly boring protagonist. Its historical inaccuracies gave license to future installations 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:occasionally neglecting🌳 history ꦑentirely.

14 Assassin's Creed Rogue

A character in front of a boat in Assassins Creed Rogue.
Assassin's Creed Rogue
Action
Open-World

Released
🔯 November 11, 20🐬14
ESRB
M For Mature 17+ due to Blood, Strong Language, Violence 🐼
Developer(s)
Ubisoft
Publisher(s)
Ubisoft
Engine
AnvilNext
How Long To Beat
11 Hours
PS Plus Availability
Extra & Premium 𝓡
OpenCritic Rating
Fair

Shat Patrick Cormac will not be found on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a list of the most powerful assassins of all tim♚e. He's a self-serving traitor to the Assassins. It's🐓 too bad the entry called "Rogue" is reserved for somebody who ends up preserving the establishment instead💧 of dismantling it.

The game takes advantage of the sailing foundation laid by𝓡 previous games, but not much else. The historical figures are interesting, but their time on screen is too brief and the feel of the controls outside of the ship is just wrong.

13 Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry

Assassins Creed Freedom Cry character.
Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry
Adventure
Action-Adventure

Released
November 17, 2013 ﷺ
ESRB
M For꧋ Mature 17+ // Blood, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
Developer(s)
Ubisoft, Ubisoft Quebec
Publisher(s)
Ubisoft
Engine
AnvilNext
How Long To Beat
4 hours
PS Plus Availability
Extra & 🍬Premium

This game is a hea🎀rtfelt labor of love and an intense experience from beginning to end. So why is it so low on the list? Beginning to end, being charitable, takes only about seven hours. It was originally meant to be DLC for Black Flag.

Former slave Adéwalé is a perfect fit for the Assassins. His personal connection to the theme of freedom is so strong that you can't help but be inspired by him. Of 168澳洲幸运5开✤奖网:all the unique boss fights in the series, plantation💟 owners and slave traders make for sat🌱isfying villains to take down.

12 Assassin's Creed Mirage

Basim in Assassin's Creed Mirage looking to the right
3.0/5

OpenCritic Rating
Strong

Spawning from a potential DLC to a previous game, Mirage was the series going back to its simpler origins. Many of the RPG elements were removed, the map is smaller, and t𒁏here's a lot less to do than in🐼 the likes of Valhalla, Origins, and Odyssey.

However, the story and characters simply weren't interesting enough to make up for the lack of content in the game. While some aspects match the quality of modern Assassin's Creeds, it simply fee꧑ls too small scale to challenge the best entries in the series.

11 Assassin’s Creed Revelations 💫 💧

Assassins Creed Revelations Cover Art of the main character standing.
Assassin's Creed Revelations
Action
Open-World

Released
🐭 November 15, 2011
ESRB
🌜 M for Mature: Blood, Language, Mild Sexual Themes, Violence
Developer(s)
🦩 Ubisoft Mo🀅ntreal
Publisher(s)
Ubisoft
Engine
havok
Multiplayer
🐬 Online Multiplayer 𝕴
Platform(s)
PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Switch, PC
How Long To Beat
13 Hours
Metascore
80
PS Plus Availability
Extra & Premium 🎐

Although the story of Ezio wound up being so popular with fans that Ubisoft decided to turn it into a trilogy, said trilogy certainly lost its momentum as it went along. AC Revelations took the aging Ezio to Constantinople, a whole new setting and a fairly interesting 🧜story that brought his saga to a close and made som🐲e neat links between him and the first game’s protagonist: Altaïr.

While Revelations isn’t a bad game (none of them are), it certainly relied on fan engagement 💧with Ezio and their excitement to see his story wrap up as a waꦰy to keep players engaged.

10 Assassin’s C𝓀re🅷ed Brotherhood

Assassins Creed Brotherhood Promotional Art Lineup or characters.

Released
ꦇNovember 16, 2010
ESRB
M for Mature - Blood, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence 𒀰
Developer(s)
🌼 Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher(s)
Ubisoft
Engine
Anvil
Multiplayer
Online Multi🐻player
Steam Deck Compatibility
Playable
PC Release Date
March 17, 2011ꦏ 🅘
Nintendo Switch Release Date
Fe꧑bruary 17, 2022 💖
How Long To Beat
15 Hours
How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
41½ Hours

How could we not ask for more Ezio after fans fell in love with his cheeky charms in Assassin’s Creed II? Its sequel, Brotherhood, offered us a more condensed world in the form of Rome, as well as the series’ introduction to online multiplayer through an Animus system that i🌺s inconsistent with the lor🐬e.

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At the time this game was released, every gꦯame of every genre was having online multiplayer awkwardly shoehorned into it, from Bioshock 2 to this. The games industry will always insist on capitalizing on any potential market that it can, no matter how poor the experience is.

9 Assassin’s Creed Unity 🤡 🐈

Assassins Creed Unity Arno Firing Wrist Crossbow.
Assassin's Creed Unity
Action
Open-World

Released
November 11, 2🧜014
ESRB
M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intensꦛe Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol
Developer(s)
Ubisoft
Publisher(s)
Ubisoft
Engine
💫 ✱ AnvilNext 2.0
Multiplayer
Online 𓄧Multiplayer 🌺
Platform(s)
PS4, Xbox One, PC, Stadia
How Long To Beat
17 Hours
PS Plus Availability
Extra & 🗹Premium 🐼
How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
80 Hours
OpenCritic Rating
Fair

I personally enjoyed Unity a whole♔ lot, though I recognize that Arno felt like Ezio’s boring li💯ttle brother. I also recognize that it was a buggy mess upon release (though by sheer luck I finished my first playthrough without any bugs).

The game also sufferedཧ from an oversaturation of repetitive tasks which justও felt like busywork. It was also released following the success of Black Flag, and yet this entry didn’t feature a single ship. That’s an immediate let-down. Still, the game is set during the French Revolution, so it feels like playing through Les Misérables, and that is engaging enough.

8 Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Eivor Pictured In The Codex in Assassins Creed Valhalla.

Released
Novಌember 10, 2020
ESRB
💟 M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Part꧑ial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs and Alcohol
Developer(s)
Ubisoft
Publisher(s)
Ubisoft
Engine
♓ Ubisoft Anvil♏
Cross-Platform Play
🌱 Assassin's Creed Valhalla supports cross-progression between all platforms!
Cross Save
yes
Steam Deck Compatibility
yes
How Long To Beat
61 Hours
X|S Optimized
yes
Metascore
84
PS Plus Availability
Extra & Pꦺremium
How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
144 Hours
OpenCritic Rating
Strong

From one game that suffered from game-breaking bugs to another, Valhalla is even more painful to complete due to a long, bloated, and boring story. And 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it raised more questions than answers in a story that is rapidly becomꦕ🍸ing more convoluted.

It is bailed outꦬ by some things that it does better than any other game on this list. For being so vast, the architecture and environment are unique and beautifully crafted, the accessibility options are on an entirely new level, and the sky, with accompanying weather🐼, is downright gorgeous.

7 Assassin’s Creed Origins ꧟

The main character from Assassin's Creed Origins in front of a pyramid.

Released
🔴 October 27, 2017
ESRB
🧸 M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence🉐, Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol
Developer(s)
Ubisoft
Publisher(s)
Ubisoft
Engine
💯 AnvilNext 2.0 💧
PC Release Date
🦂 October 27, 2017 𒁏
How Long To Beat
30 Hours
X|S Optimized
Yes
File Size Xbox Series
༒ 49 GB🐼 (November 2023)
PS Plus Availability
𒈔 🐼 Extra & Premium
How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
88 Hours
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty

For me, a lot of what makes the Assassin’s Creed series fun is its settings. As a history buff, if I find that particular period exciting then I’ll p🐭robably be into th🌳e game despite its flaws. For that reason, I could never muster up much love for Origins because I’ve never liked the period of Ptolemaic Egypt.

Although the game received a massive overhaul in its gameplay, map design, and approach to exploration, and it looked and felt gorgeous to play, the setting was a letdown. But this one is very subjective, more so than any other on the list, and I recognize that. It’s still a damn fine game, and mechanically one of the best in the series, despite introducing a few new annoying systems that Odys🎃sey and Valh🗹alla would copy.

6 ꦓ ♍Assassin’s Creed III

Kenway in front of a flag in Assassin's Creed III.

Released
𒈔 October 30, 2012
ESRB
M for Mature: Blood, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Stro♉ng Language
Developer(s)
Ubisoft🅰 Montreal
Publisher(s)
Ubisoft
Engine
🔥 anvilnext, h🦩avok
Multiplayer
ౠ Online♉ Multiplayer
How Long To Beat
17 Hours
PS Plus Availability
Extra & Premium 𓄧 🎃
How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
55 Hours

In the same way that Assassin’s Creed I🦋I built on all the foundations laid down by the series’ first e🌄ntry, so too did ACIII attempt to take what made its predecessor great and keep building. Connor was certainly not in the same league, as protagonists go, as Ezio was in, even though his story and stakes felt far greater than those of the previous trilogy’s.

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What also made this game a big winner was the series’ introduction to naval combat. Although it paled in comparison to what it would later become, this was a really good start. Its setting and aesthetics were also fantastic. The gorgeous townships 🐷and a greater focus on wilderness exploration really added an extra layer to the series.