Assassin's Creed Shadows has been a huge success for Ubisoft. Within its first week, it reached over three million players, and in the months since, it became one of the best-selling games of 2025. However, on Steam, it has already been dethroned by an earlier entry in the series.
At the time of writing, Shadows has a peak 24-hour concurrent player count of 5,131, making it the second most-played game in the series. Edging slightly ahead is Odyssey, with a peak of 6,137. It's not too surprising when you dig back through the data, though.
Shadows still has the highest all-time peak, with 64,825 players.
More than any other entry in the series, Odyssey has maintained an impressive peak player count over the years; in December, it reached a staggering 31,729 players, vastly outperforming the record-breaking success Valhalla, which reached just 5,456 players, and even the then-newly released Mirage, which peaked at 3,238.
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