Every Assassin's Creed Game Tier List

The latest successful Ubisoft’s agelong enactment of stealth-action unfastened worlds, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, is yet here. But wherever does it fertile successful the series? We’re asking you to marque that decision. There person been implicit 30 games released nether the Assassin’s Creed banner, but we’re conscionable including the “mainline games” here, truthful nary mobile, side-scrolling, VR entries, oregon spin-offs similar Bloodlines oregon Liberation here, I’m afraid.

AC started each the mode backmost successful 2007 erstwhile Desmond Miles stepped into the Animus to capable the shoes of his ancestor Altaïr, and present finds itself successful 16th-century Japan 18 years aboriginal arsenic players instrumentality power of Naoe and Yasuke. This latest escapade is the 14th successful the halfway series, and I’ve had a spell astatine ranking them via 1 of our IGN Tier Lists, based purely connected my idiosyncratic enjoyment of each game. Take a look astatine my tier database here:

Simon Cardy's Assassin's Creed Tier List

Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is inactive the introduction I clasp closest to my heart. The premix of land exploration, vessel combat, and colourful formed provides the champion all-around AC acquisition successful my mind. It’s joined by Assassin’s Creed 2 successful the S-tier, the crippled that truly catapulted the bid into the limelight. I besides person Valhalla successful the A-tier, which whitethorn astonishment some, but I truly loved the Viking-influenced combat, and americium a sucker for the Orlog minigame. Alongside it is Unity, a crippled whose recreation of French Revolution-era Paris inactive looks stunning a decennary later.

Don’t hold with me? Think that Valhalla is acold excessively bloated for its ain good? Think that Assassin’s Creed 2 is really overrated? Well, wherefore not person a spell astatine ranking each of the mainline AC games yourself successful a tier database beneath wherever you tin comparison your ain S, A, B, C, and D tiers with the full of the IGN community.

Enjoying Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Where successful the satellite would you similar the bid to spell next? Let america cognize successful the comments, arsenic good arsenic wherefore you’ve ranked the consoles successful the bid you’ve chosen.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editorial Producer who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.