Assassin's Creed Shadows

The 2025 game set in Sengoku-era Japan with two protagonists, Naoe and Yasuke.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is a 2025 action role-playing game developed by Ubisoft Quebec and the fourteenth main installment of the series. It came out on March 20, 2025 for macOS, PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S.

The game is set in 16th-century Japan near the end of the Sengoku period.

Quick Facts

Developer: Ubisoft Quebec
Publisher: Ubisoft
Director: Jonathan Dumont; Charles Benoit
Producer: Karl Onnée
Artist: Thierry Dansereau
Writer: Ryan Galletta
Composer: The Flight, TEKE::TEKE
Series: Assassin's Creed

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Background

It has two playable protagonists with different play styles: Fujibayashi Naoe, a kunoichi, and Yasuke, an African samurai based on the historical figure of the same name. Quests can be approached in more than one way depending on who is used.

The open world, about the size of Origins, changes with the seasons, and winter freezes the ponds Naoe can hide in. Targets are not marked by default: players recruit scouts to narrow down where they are from clues.

Other new features include going prone, a grappling hook for parkour and breakable objects. A Nintendo Switch 2 version followed on December 2, 2025.