The most recent instalment in Ubisoft’s blockbuster Murderer’s Creed franchise obtained a “very optimistic” score on Steam based mostly on 751 person evaluations, with 80% of them being optimistic, round 4 hours after its launch on the sport distribution platform.
The twice delayed launch of Murderer’s Creed Shadows, based mostly in rural Japan, is Ubisoft’s first main sport premiere because the muted reception of Star Wars Outlaws in August final 12 months.
Its launch could also be thought-about a “make-or-break second” for the French videogame maker grappling with falling income, a sinking inventory value and takeover hypothesis. Ubisoft’s shares have been up 3.4% at 10.29am SAST on Thursday.
The sport was ranked first on Steam’s high at present promoting video games globally on Thursday, with concurrent gamers on the platform peaking at 25 863 within the first hours of play.
On Sony’s PlayStation Retailer, the place the action-adventure sport launched at midnight, the latest Murderer’s Creed obtained a person score of 4.79 stars out of 5 based mostly on 1 834 rankings.
The PC model scored 78 factors on the Metacritic 100-point scale after 45 critic evaluations, with PlayStation 5 model scoring 81 factors based mostly on 78 evaluations and Xbox Sequence X model hitting 85 factors based mostly on 20 evaluations.
Within the optimistic person evaluations on Steam, gamers praised the sport’s “lovely graphics”, detailed atmosphere and gameplay. A few of them described the sport as “higher than anticipated” and mentioned they have been having fun with the story.
‘Good basis’
Destructive evaluations talked about some errors and crashes at launch, and a few mentioned the story didn’t have “an excellent basis”. Some gamers additionally mentioned the sport was left within the shadow of Sucker Punch Productions’ critically acclaimed Ghost of Tsushima which takes place in the same setting.
Ghost of Tsushima, an open-world motion journey which debuted in 2020, has a critics’ rating of 83 factors on Metacritic, with a person rating of 9.2 out of 10.
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Later this 12 months, Murderer’s Creed Shadows will face competitors from one more sport set in feudal Japan, as Sucker Punch Productions plans to launch Ghost of Yotei, a follow-up to Ghost of Tsushima. — Adrianna Ebert, (c) 2025 Reuters
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