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Assassin's Creed 2 cover art

Assassin's Creed 2

Ubisoft Montreal · Ubisoft · 2010-03-09

SteamEpic Games StoreXboxMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventure

Franchise: Assassin's Creed · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Dec 03, 2009 (PlayStation 3), Nov 17, 2009 (Xbox 360), Mar 17, 2011 (Mac), Mar 09, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

An epic story of family, vengeance and conspiracy set in the pristine, yet brutal, backdrop of a Renaissance Italy. New low price!

Assassin's Creed 2 is a 2010 Action and Adventure game priced at $19.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Very Positive (89% of 61460 reviews) sentiment.

395
playing now
89%
positive of 62k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
13
twitch viewers (latest)
3.3
viewers/channel (concentration)
90/100
critic score (8 outlets, IGDB)
87/100
IGDB user rating (3186 ratings)
26h
to beat · rushed 20h · completionist 37h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

395 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Assassin's Creed II is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the second major installment in the Assassin's Creed series, and the sequel to 2007's Assassin's Creed. The game was first released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2009, and was later made available on Microsoft Windows in March 2010 and OS X in October 2010.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 395 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3,833 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~479/week).
  • · Review velocity down 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,536 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.5M–5.0M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 61,984 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.15 at GreenManGaming (2023-11-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 101 of 120 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.2k1.2k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 197 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 234 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 315 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 234 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 269 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 322 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 467 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 482 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 618 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 548 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1,229 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 114 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 801 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 656 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 687 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 122 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 405 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 272 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 556 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 564 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 627 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 649 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 616 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 600 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 368 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 448 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 517 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 544 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 409 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 475 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 466 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 670 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 602 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 409 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 672 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 519 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 555 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 501 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 382 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 713 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 495 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 833 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 641 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 573 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 311 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 597 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 897 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 97 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 614 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 316 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 339 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 426 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 575 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 420 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 405 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 486 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 370 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 353 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 489 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 109 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 507 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 618 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 96 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 373 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 372 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 264 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 548 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 110 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 544 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 334 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 762 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 628 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 446 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 309 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 159 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 467 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 630 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 353 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 415 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 310 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 636 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 605 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 332 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 681 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 390 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 348 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 325 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 601 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 349 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 406 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 28 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.3k1232026-09-14 20:00 — 283 players2026-09-16 04:00 — 123 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 232 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 548 players2026-09-20 02:00 — 480 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 634 players2026-09-22 18:00 — 874 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 432 players2026-09-25 09:00 — 699 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 1,188 players2026-09-28 00:00 — 516 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 496 players2026-09-30 15:00 — 961 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 472 players2026-10-03 06:00 — 657 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 1,286 players2026-10-05 21:00 — 588 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 439 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 748 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 689 players2026-10-11 03:00 — 499 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 471 players2026-10-13 19:00 — 556 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 395 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
966205Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 966 · peak 1,812Dec 2012 — avg 749 · peak 3,582May 2013 — avg 285 · peak 556Oct 2013 — avg 328 · peak 701Mar 2014 — avg 519 · peak 1,550Aug 2014 — avg 389 · peak 757Jan 2015 — avg 530 · peak 1,460Jun 2015 — avg 402 · peak 1,384Nov 2015 — avg 366 · peak 856Apr 2016 — avg 240 · peak 595Sep 2016 — avg 205 · peak 455Feb 2017 — avg 341 · peak 851Jul 2017 — avg 431 · peak 1,067Dec 2017 — avg 515 · peak 1,292May 2018 — avg 382 · peak 1,763Oct 2018 — avg 351 · peak 788Mar 2019 — avg 465 · peak 1,338Aug 2019 — avg 364 · peak 920Jan 2020 — avg 517 · peak 1,248Jun 2020 — avg 336 · peak 758Nov 2020 — avg 457 · peak 1,389Apr 2021 — avg 322 · peak 855Sep 2021 — avg 324 · peak 906Feb 2022 — avg 390 · peak 811Jul 2022 — avg 491 · peak 998Dec 2022 — avg 668 · peak 1,846May 2023 — avg 234 · peak 456Oct 2023 — avg 352 · peak 747Mar 2024 — avg 414 · peak 962Aug 2024 — avg 527 · peak 1,185Jan 2025 — avg 511 · peak 1,038Jun 2025 — avg 279 · peak 785Nov 2025 — avg 296 · peak 554Apr 2026 — avg 366 · peak 701Aug 2026 — avg 356 · peak 733
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
60602026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 60 new positive2026-09-21: 11 new negative2026-09-22: 19 new positive2026-09-22: 1 new negative2026-09-23: 13 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-24: 18 new positive2026-09-24: 2 new negative2026-09-25: 25 new positive2026-09-25: 1 new negative2026-09-27: 13 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 26 new positive2026-09-28: 2 new negative2026-09-29: 20 new positive2026-09-29: 4 new negative2026-09-30: 18 new positive2026-09-30: 1 new negative2026-10-01: 19 new positive2026-10-02: 43 new positive2026-10-02: 3 new negative2026-10-03: 16 new positive2026-10-04: 24 new positive2026-10-04: 4 new negative2026-10-05: 16 new positive2026-10-05: 5 new negative2026-10-06: 22 new positive2026-10-06: 2 new negative2026-10-08: 10 new positive2026-10-08: 1 new negative2026-10-09: 16 new positive2026-10-10: 16 new positive2026-10-10: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 9 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new negative2026-10-12: 17 new positive2026-10-12: 2 new negative2026-10-13: 12 new positive2026-10-13: 3 new negative2026-10-14: 7 new positive2026-10-14: 1 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$2.062015-01-012026-09-302015-01-01 — best price $4.992016-09-03 — best price $19.992017-09-29 — best price $19.992018-11-29 — best price $19.992019-04-25 — best price $19.992019-12-03 — best price $19.992020-06-18 — best price $19.992020-12-01 — best price $19.992021-05-20 — best price $5.992021-09-18 — best price $19.992021-12-16 — best price $5.162022-03-12 — best price $3.262022-05-28 — best price $19.992022-09-10 — best price $19.992022-12-22 — best price $2.582023-03-23 — best price $19.992023-06-09 — best price $19.992023-08-29 — best price $9.992023-12-11 — best price $4.992024-02-13 — best price $9.992024-05-07 — best price $5.002024-07-23 — best price $9.992024-09-30 — best price $7.732024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-03-03 — best price $7.732025-05-12 — best price $2.102025-07-31 — best price $19.992025-10-23 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $7.732026-03-09 — best price $2.062026-05-19 — best price $19.992026-07-16 — best price $4.992026-09-13 — best price $4.992026-09-30 — best price $4.73
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.2k4582026-05-29 — 628 pageviews2026-06-02 — 547 pageviews2026-06-06 — 874 pageviews2026-06-10 — 631 pageviews2026-06-14 — 628 pageviews2026-06-18 — 555 pageviews2026-06-22 — 718 pageviews2026-06-26 — 799 pageviews2026-06-30 — 645 pageviews2026-07-04 — 716 pageviews2026-07-08 — 1,047 pageviews2026-07-12 — 1,154 pageviews2026-07-16 — 960 pageviews2026-07-20 — 958 pageviews2026-07-24 — 884 pageviews2026-07-28 — 826 pageviews2026-08-01 — 771 pageviews2026-08-05 — 669 pageviews2026-08-09 — 677 pageviews2026-08-13 — 602 pageviews2026-08-17 — 638 pageviews2026-08-21 — 667 pageviews2026-08-25 — 596 pageviews2026-08-29 — 554 pageviews2026-09-02 — 509 pageviews2026-09-06 — 549 pageviews2026-09-10 — 514 pageviews2026-09-14 — 463 pageviews2026-09-18 — 550 pageviews2026-09-22 — 552 pageviews2026-09-26 — 701 pageviews2026-09-30 — 568 pageviews2026-10-04 — 571 pageviews2026-10-07 — 589 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

11302026-09-30 18:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-01 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 12:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-01 21:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-02 06:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-02 15:34 — 113 viewers2026-10-03 00:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-03 09:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-03 18:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-04 03:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-04 12:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-04 21:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-05 06:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-05 15:34 — 35 viewers2026-10-06 00:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-06 09:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-06 18:34 — 24 viewers2026-10-07 03:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-07 12:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-07 21:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-08 06:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-08 15:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-09 00:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-09 09:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-09 18:34 — 42 viewers2026-10-10 03:34 — 44 viewers2026-10-10 12:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-10 21:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-11 06:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-11 15:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-12 00:34 — 63 viewers2026-10-12 09:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-12 18:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-13 03:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-13 12:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-13 21:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-14 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 15:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 13 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-player

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Korean

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

ActionParkourStealthAssassinAdventureConspiracyHistoricalOpen WorldStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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