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Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition cover art

Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition

Ubisoft Montreal · Ubisoft · 2008-04-09

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ActionAdventure

Franchise: Assassin's Creed · Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 11, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Assassin's Creed™ is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that redefines the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of...

54
playing now
81%
positive of 25k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (93 ratings)
17h
to beat · completionist 32h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

54 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Assassin's Creed is a 2007 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the first installment in the Assassin's Creed series. The game was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2007. A Microsoft Windows version titled Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition containing additional content was released in April 2008.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 54 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,349 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~294/week).
  • · Review velocity up 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 10,906 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.0M–2.0M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 25,264 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.54 at Nuuvem (2015-07-08) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 76 of 110 observed days · $3.45 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
37037020182026Week of 2018-01-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 274 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 224 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 197 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 213 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 259 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 221 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 213 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 297 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 370 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 221 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 272 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 279 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 152 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 130 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 265 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 105 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 197 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 25 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

97222026-08-06 21:00 — 73 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 48 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 66 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 76 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 48 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 70 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 88 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 52 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 85 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 97 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 37 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 58 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 62 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 27 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 45 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 57 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 27 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 44 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 75 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 25 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 27 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 54 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 27 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 40 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 44 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 33 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 36 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 46 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 30 players2026-08-30 17:00 — 54 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.002015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-04-27 — best price $7.592015-08-14 — best price $4.992016-03-02 — best price $7.602016-12-22 — best price $6.792017-11-24 — best price $9.992018-06-19 — best price $19.992018-10-15 — best price $16.992018-11-27 — best price $16.992019-01-13 — best price $16.992019-02-23 — best price $16.992019-04-08 — best price $10.092019-05-25 — best price $19.992019-09-28 — best price $9.842020-01-11 — best price $19.992020-04-09 — best price $17.792020-07-10 — best price $19.992020-10-03 — best price $19.992020-12-10 — best price $5.992021-02-16 — best price $19.992021-05-06 — best price $17.882021-08-19 — best price $5.992021-12-11 — best price $19.992022-03-15 — best price $19.992022-06-17 — best price $17.842022-10-27 — best price $5.992023-02-06 — best price $9.622023-05-25 — best price $17.882023-10-03 — best price $9.422024-02-11 — best price $2.152024-07-04 — best price $19.992024-12-02 — best price $19.992025-04-29 — best price $5.002025-09-14 — best price $19.992026-02-02 — best price $2.102026-06-15 — best price $2.082026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.8k6272026-05-28 — 802 pageviews2026-05-31 — 766 pageviews2026-06-03 — 769 pageviews2026-06-06 — 1,305 pageviews2026-06-09 — 881 pageviews2026-06-12 — 658 pageviews2026-06-15 — 627 pageviews2026-06-18 — 670 pageviews2026-06-21 — 881 pageviews2026-06-24 — 701 pageviews2026-06-27 — 710 pageviews2026-06-30 — 769 pageviews2026-07-03 — 772 pageviews2026-07-06 — 924 pageviews2026-07-09 — 1,689 pageviews2026-07-12 — 1,619 pageviews2026-07-15 — 1,358 pageviews2026-07-18 — 1,526 pageviews2026-07-21 — 1,281 pageviews2026-07-24 — 1,312 pageviews2026-07-27 — 1,270 pageviews2026-07-30 — 961 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1,104 pageviews2026-08-05 — 933 pageviews2026-08-08 — 875 pageviews2026-08-11 — 850 pageviews2026-08-14 — 804 pageviews2026-08-17 — 833 pageviews2026-08-20 — 778 pageviews2026-08-23 — 866 pageviews2026-08-25 — 733 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

322026-08-26 19:15 — 2 viewers2026-08-26 19:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-26 20:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 3 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Where its players are

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

Player tags

ActionCombatParkourStealthAssassinMedievalAdventureRealisticConspiracyHistorical

Census log

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

Recent updates

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