GamesSeries Deep Dive

Assassin's Creed

The modern era in order — from the Origins reboot through Odyssey, Valhalla, Mirage and Shadows, to the Black Flag Resynced remake and the long wait for Hexe.

Assassin's Creed Hexe

In development at Ubisoft Montreal · no release date announced. Reports point to 2027 at the earliest — we'll start the countdown the moment Ubisoft dates it.

7

Entries

6

Released

1

Remakes

1

Announced

The Journey
2017Released

Assassin's Creed Origins

Where the Brotherhood began.

27 October 2017 PS4 · Xbox One · PC

2018Released

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Ancient Greece, your choices, your legend.

5 October 2018 PS4 · Xbox One · PC

2020Released

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Raid, settle, conquer England.

10 November 2020 PS5 · PS4 · Xbox Series X|S · Xbox One · PC

2023Released

Assassin's Creed Mirage

Back to the rooftops.

5 October 2023 PS5 · PS4 · Xbox Series X|S · Xbox One · PC · iOS

2025Released

Assassin's Creed Shadows

Two protagonists in Sengoku Japan.

20 March 2025 PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · PC · Mac

2026Released

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

Raise the black flag again.

9 July 2026 PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · PC

2027+Announced · No date

Assassin's Creed Hexe

The darkest Creed yet.

No date confirmed TBA

Every Game In Detail
The rebootReleased

Assassin's Creed Origins

After a year off, Ubisoft Montreal rebuilt Assassin's Creed as an open-world RPG set in Ptolemaic Egypt. You play Bayek of Siwa, a Medjay whose personal tragedy becomes the founding of the Hidden Ones. Hitbox-based combat, loot tiers, levelling and the Eagle Vision replacement Senu all arrived here and defined the next decade of the series.

The RPG reboot that reset the whole series

Release

27 October 2017

Studio

Ubisoft Montreal

Platforms

PS4 · Xbox One · PC

Key points

  • Ptolemaic Egypt, from Siwa and Alexandria to the pyramids
  • First full RPG systems: gear tiers, levels, skill trees
  • Bayek and Aya found the Hidden Ones — the Brotherhood's origin
  • Free Discovery Tour mode turned the map into a history lesson
The RPG peakReleased

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Ubisoft Quebec pushed the RPG turn all the way: pick Kassandra or Alexios, make dialogue choices, romance characters and reach multiple endings. Set during the Peloponnesian War, Odyssey layered naval combat, mercenary bounty hunters and a mythological Atlantis storyline over the biggest map the series had built at that point.

The furthest the series has leaned into full RPG design

Release

5 October 2018

Studio

Ubisoft Quebec

Platforms

PS4 · Xbox One · PC

Key points

  • Choice of protagonist — Kassandra or Alexios — with dialogue choices
  • Peloponnesian War setting with Conquest Battles and naval combat
  • Mercenary system: bounties escalate if you cause trouble
  • Fate of Atlantis DLC took the series openly mythological
The Viking eraReleased

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Eivor leads a Norse clan out of Norway to carve out a home in 9th-century England. Valhalla swapped Odyssey's gear grind for a settlement you build up, raids on riverside monasteries, and a region-by-region alliance structure. It became the best-selling entry in franchise history and was supported for years with expansions ending in Dawn of Ragnarök.

Highest-grossing entry in the franchise

Release

10 November 2020

Studio

Ubisoft Montreal

Platforms

PS5 · PS4 · Xbox Series X|S · Xbox One · PC

Key points

  • Norway and 9th-century England, plus Vinland and mythic realms
  • Build and upgrade Ravensthorpe, your own settlement
  • River raids, alliance pledges and a lighter gear system
  • Biggest-selling Assassin's Creed to date, with years of DLC
The throwbackReleased

Assassin's Creed Mirage

Mirage deliberately shrank the series back down. Basim Ibn Ishaq, first met in Valhalla, is a street thief in 9th-century Baghdad who joins the Hidden Ones. It is a compact, city-focused stealth game — no sprawling RPG tree, no levelled loot, just social stealth, hidden blade assassinations, notoriety and parkour, deliberately echoing the first games.

A deliberate return to the classic formula

Release

5 October 2023

Studio

Ubisoft Bordeaux

Platforms

PS5 · PS4 · Xbox Series X|S · Xbox One · PC · iOS

Key points

  • One dense city: 9th-century Baghdad during the Anbar uprising
  • Return to social stealth, notoriety and one-hit hidden blade kills
  • Roughly 20 hours — a deliberate reaction to 100-hour entries
  • Basim's story links directly back to Valhalla
The Japan entryReleased

Assassin's Creed Shadows

The setting fans had asked for since the beginning. Shadows splits play between Naoe, a shinobi from Iga built around stealth and grappling, and Yasuke, the historical African samurai who serves Oda Nobunaga and fights head-on. Feudal Japan's seasons change the world dynamically, light and shadow drive the stealth system, and each character opens completely different routes through the same objective.

The long-requested Feudal Japan setting

Release

20 March 2025

Studio

Ubisoft Quebec

Platforms

PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · PC · Mac

Key points

  • Dual protagonists: Naoe the shinobi and Yasuke the samurai
  • Sengoku-era Japan with dynamic seasons that reshape stealth and traversal
  • Light and darkness matter — snuff lanterns, hide in shadow
  • Delayed twice from November 2024 before landing in March 2025
The remakeReleased

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

After more than a year of leaks, Ubisoft officially revealed Black Flag Resynced on 23 April 2026 and shipped it on 9 July. Led by Ubisoft Singapore, it is a faithful ground-up remake of 2013's Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag in the latest Anvil engine — ray tracing, Dolby Atmos, seamless land-to-sea transitions and dynamic weather — with new content and Matt Ryan returning as Edward Kenway. It sold two million copies on launch day.

Two million copies sold on launch day

Release

9 July 2026

Studio

Ubisoft Singapore

Platforms

PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · PC

Key points

  • Revealed 23 April 2026, released worldwide 9 July 2026
  • Full remake of Black Flag (2013), rebuilt in the modern Anvil engine
  • Ray tracing, Dolby Atmos, dynamic weather, seamless ship-to-shore
  • New content with original Edward voice actor Matt Ryan returning
What's nextAnnounced · No date

Assassin's Creed Hexe

First teased as Codename Hexe during Ubisoft Forward in September 2022 as part of the Assassin's Creed Infinity plan, Hexe is Ubisoft Montreal's next mainline entry — widely reported to be set in the Holy Roman Empire during the 16th-century witch trials, with a much darker, smaller and more focused design than the RPG entries. Ubisoft reaffirmed it was in development in March 2026, but it still has no announced release date. Leaks through mid-2026 pointed at a June 2027 target, with other sources saying the second half of 2027 at the earliest and warning it could slip again.

Officially in development · release window unannounced

Release

No date confirmed

Studio

Ubisoft Montreal

Platforms

TBA

Key points

  • Announced September 2022 as Codename Hexe — still no official date
  • Ubisoft Montreal, reportedly set during the Holy Roman Empire witch trials
  • Expected to be darker and tighter than Odyssey or Valhalla
  • Leaks point at mid-to-late 2027 at the earliest — treat dates as unconfirmed