{"id":11566,"date":"2026-07-09T19:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=11566"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:37:36","slug":"assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-has-already-earned-the-series-biggest-player-peak-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-has-already-earned-the-series-biggest-player-peak-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced Has Already Earned the Series&#8217; Biggest Player Peak on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced is off to a strong start on Steam, with around 100,000 concurrent players \u2014 more than any other title in the franchise to date. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ubisoft&#8217;s ground-up remake of its beloved pirate adventure game currently has launch peak of 99,451 players at the time of writing, making it comfortably the series&#8217; best ever launch on Steam. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">By comparison, 2025&#8217;s feudal Japan-set Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows recorded a launch peak of 64,825 players, while the Ancient Greek-set Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey earned 62,069. Not all Assassin&#8217;s Creed games have appeared on Steam at launch (the hugely-popular Viking entry Valhalla turned up later), so comparisons aren&#8217;t entirely straightforward. <\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">The Complete Assassin&#8217;s Creed Timeline<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\">&lt;img alt=&quot;Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows may be the latest game in the long-running series, but its feudal Japan setting places it at the midpoint of the series\u2019 historical timeline. That\u2019s because Assassin\u2019s Creed doesn\u2019t progress chronologically; this long-running franchise hops forwards and backwards in time between each entry, exploring significant events from as far back as the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, and right up to the dawn of the First World War.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p>With 14 games in the mainline series and counting, the timeline of these events is increasingly complex. That\u2019s why IGN has pored over every scrap of lore to make sense of the series&#8217; centuries-spanning timeline, the overarching story, and how the games all fit together. The result is this timeline, which covers all the key events in the Assassin\u2019s Creed timeline in chronological order.&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; class=&#8221;progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity&#8221; loading=&#8221;lazy&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-has-already-earned-the-series-biggest-player-peak-on-steam.gif&#8221; data-cy=&#8221;progressive-image&#8221;&gt;<span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Still, no other Assassin&#8217;s Creed game comes close to matching Black Flag&#8217;s early haul, which will likely prove a relief for publisher Ubisoft after a turbulent few years of layoffs, delays, and underwhelming sales. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Black Flag Resynced had been expected to perform well on Steam, after a report this week suggested pre-orders on the PC platform were 5.39 times higher than those for Shadows. Impressively, this also means that Resynced has already beaten the lifetime sales of Skull &amp; Bones, Ubisoft&#8217;s costly, long-in-development pirate spinoff from Black Flag that eventually emerged in 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;More than just a shinier version of the same game you remember, Assassin\u2019s Creed Black Flag Resynced brings what was already one of the best games in the series up to today\u2019s standards,&#8221; IGN wrote in our Assassin\u2019s Creed Black Flag Resynced review, dredging up a fine 9\/10 score.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Tom Phillips is IGN&#8217;s News Editor. 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