It's only March, but 2025 has been a pretty significant year for big gaming releases already — and later this week, we're about to get another one with Assassin's Creed Shadows. The latest open-world action RPG from publisher and developer Ubisoft has a lot riding behind it, largely due to the underwhelming performance of many of the studio's recent titles and the subsequent decline of its reputation in many gaming circles. Like most Ubisoft games, Shadows will be playable on Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PS5 when it launches on March 20.
Ahead of that release, Assassin's Creed Shadows reviews from outlets and critics have gone live — and so far, they're promising. At the time of writing, the game has a "Generally Favorable" 82/100 score on the review aggregation site Metacritic, along with an 81 on Opencritic; that average comes from nearly 100 reviews conducted across the ARPG's platforms, a collection of which you'll find linked below along with some noteworthy quotes:
