Assassin's Creed Games in Order: Release Order and Story Order (2026)

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Assassin's Creed games in release order

This is the order the games came out, which is also the order Ubisoft's own series guide uses. Dates are the first release on any platform as listed in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed games catalogue. Several older games reached PC weeks or months after consoles: Syndicate, for example, came out on consoles on 23 October 2015 and on PC on 19 November 2015.

Assassin's Creed games in chronological (story) order

Story order follows the historical years each game covers. The years below are the ones Ubisoft gives in its Evolution of the Brotherhood timeline, written for Mirage. Ubisoft does not give a span for Assassin's Creed II or Shadows there, so those rows use the century from Ubisoft's game pages.

Mirage sits before Valhalla because it tells how Basim became the Master Assassin you meet in Valhalla. Rogue and Assassin's Creed III overlap, with Rogue starting two years earlier.

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Spin-offs, remasters and collections

Ubisoft's official games list has 21 Assassin's Creed titles. Besides the mainline games it includes remasters, collections, a mobile game and a VR game. These are the ones you are most likely to see in a library or a store.

Two story add-ons stand out. Freedom Cry continues Black Flag with Edward's first mate Adéwalé in Saint-Domingue, and Liberation, the companion to Assassin's Creed III, follows Aveline de Grandpré in New Orleans. Shadows got its paid expansion, Claws of Awaji, on 16 September 2025.

Newest: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced (2026)

Ubisoft released Black Flag Resynced on 9 July 2026 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, where it sells through the Ubisoft Store, Steam and the Epic Games Store. Ubisoft Singapore led the remake, 13 years after the original, on the same Anvil engine version used for Shadows. Matt Ryan, the original voice of Edward Kenway, recorded new lines.

• New parry-based combat, takedowns, a rope dart and a new Demolitionist enemy type
• Stealth additions: crouch anywhere, dive anywhere, and light and shadow affecting visibility
• Officers for the Jackdaw, a reworked Kenway's Fleet, new naval weapons and 10 new sea shanties
• New missions and scenes, dynamic weather and fully reworked water

According to Ubisoft's launch guide, the PC version needs Windows 11 and an online connection once to install, after which the whole game is playable offline. Ubisoft sells Resynced as its own product, separate from the 2013 game.

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Play Edward Kenway's 2013 story first, then compare it with the remake.

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Upcoming Assassin's Creed games: Hexe, Jade and Invictus

Only one future project has an official profile from Ubisoft. Everything else you read about release windows comes from leaks, and none of it is confirmed.

If a site gives you a firm Hexe date, check it against Ubisoft's news page. As of 18 October 2026 the only Assassin's Creed release of the year is Black Flag Resynced.

Release order or story order: which should you play

Ubisoft describes the series as a centuries-spanning metanarrative that is meant to unfold in a specific order, which is the release order. The modern-day plot with Desmond Miles runs from the first game to Assassin's Creed III, and Layla Hassan carries it through Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla.

Playing Assassin's Creed on PC through Ubisoft Connect

Every mainline game is on PC. Ubisoft Connect is Ubisoft's PC app for managing and launching its games, and copies bought on Steam or the Epic Games Store are tied to a Ubisoft account the first time you link the two accounts.

• If you launch through Steam while signed in to a different Ubisoft account, Ubisoft shows the "Game activated on a different account" error.
• Ubisoft warns that linking and unlinking can have a permanent effect, and you can only re-link the same platform account you connected before.
• A Ubisoft account's library shows which Assassin's Creed games it owns, which is what you compare on an account listing.

For how Ubisoft account links work across platforms, read our Ubisoft account linking guide. If you are comparing accounts, our NFA vs Full Access explainer covers what access you get.

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Sources and editorial scope

Reviewed 18 October 2026. Release dates come from Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed games catalogue and Black Flag Resynced launch guide, settings and characters from Ubisoft's How to Play the Assassin's Creed Games In Order and its game pages, story years from The Evolution of the Brotherhood, the Shadows era from Ubisoft Québec and the Shadows page, and the Hexe and Invictus announcement from The Future of Assassin's Creed (September 2022). Ubisoft account behaviour is from Ubisoft Help. Release windows reported by leakers are left out. The play-order advice is ALVIRAN editorial.

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