Ubisoft has announced a full return to Steam, with all its new releases set to launch day one on Valve’s storefront starting with Assassin’s Creed Shadows on 14th February next year.
Assassin’ Creed: Shadows will be the first Ubisoft game to get a day one release on Steam since Starlink: Battle for Atlas all the way back in April 2019. Since then, the publisher has opted to launch its PC titles on its own storefront and the Epic Games Store.
In fact, for a long time, new Ubisoft titles weren’t available on Steam at all, but that changed in December 2022, when Assassin’s Creed Valhalla made the jump to Valve’s platform – some two years after its initial release. Anno 1800 and Roller Champions followed, and the experiment was seemingly a success; in the years since, the majority of new Ubisoft titles have been released on Steam, albeit trailing other digital stores by several months at least.
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