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Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China cover art

Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China

Climax Studios · Ubisoft Entertainment · 2015-04-21

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ActionAdventure

Franchise: Assassin's Creed · Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 21, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 21, 2015 (PlayStation 4), Apr 21, 2015 (Xbox One), Apr 05, 2016 (PlayStation Vita)

The first entry in the Assassin’s Creed Chronicles saga takes place in China, 1526, as the Ming dynasty starts to crumble. You embody Shao Jun, the last remaining Assassin of the Chinese Brotherhood, returning to her homeland with a vendetta.

4
playing now
74%
positive of 3.9k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (8 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (129 ratings)
5.6h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Set in 16th-century Imperial China during the Ming dynasty, the story follows Shao Jun, a determined member of the Assassin Brotherhood. In 1526, she returns home to China after a long journey to Europe, where she sought out the retired Assassin Mentor Ezio Auditore da Firenze and learned the key to freeing her oppressed people. Her homeland lies under the secret grip of the Eight Tigers, a cabal of powerful Templars who rule China from the shadows with the Emperor as their puppet, and who orchestrated the near-total extermination of the Chinese Assassins. Armed with her training and a mysteri(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 166 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~21/week).
  • · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 97k–234k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,898 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.32 at GameBillet (2020-11-23) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 54 of 81 observed days · $8.67 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-08-06 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 5 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.86$0.002015-03-312026-08-272015-03-31 — best price $9.662015-07-16 — best price $9.992015-12-23 — best price $6.692016-05-11 — best price $9.992016-12-19 — best price $5.002017-08-17 — best price $5.872017-12-21 — best price $3.992018-05-04 — best price $9.992018-10-20 — best price $8.892019-02-01 — best price $0.002019-05-23 — best price $3.402019-08-20 — best price $3.402019-11-21 — best price $3.392020-02-05 — best price $8.892020-04-09 — best price $8.892020-06-26 — best price $8.912020-09-11 — best price $2.842020-11-16 — best price $8.892021-01-11 — best price $8.892021-03-08 — best price $2.482021-05-06 — best price $8.892021-08-18 — best price $3.502021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-02-21 — best price $3.002022-05-09 — best price $2.692022-08-23 — best price $2.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-02-27 — best price $2.992023-06-05 — best price $2.992023-09-11 — best price $2.692023-12-29 — best price $8.682024-05-01 — best price $2.992024-09-16 — best price $7.732025-01-23 — best price $2.992025-06-09 — best price $2.482025-10-21 — best price $2.992026-03-09 — best price $2.482026-07-06 — best price $2.492026-08-27 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
7.6%
earned "Vengeance Begins"
1.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller Support

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Player tags

2D2.5DActionParkourStealthAssassinAdventureHistoricalOpen WorldPlatformer

Census log

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

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