Murderer’s Creed: Shadows is the second-best-selling recreation of the yr within the US to date.
Based on knowledge from Circana, the sport trails solely Monster Hunter Wilds within the general year-to-date charts within the US.
Circana’s Mat Piscatella famous that Murderer’s Creed: Shadows has been the best-selling recreation within the US for every of its first three weeks available on the market.
Whereas the sport suffered a protracted growth, which included a number of delays, robust critiques and optimistic participant sentiment have seemingly turned the sport right into a modest hit for Ubisoft.
The sport was successful within the UK too, shifting extra bodily copies in a single week than fellow Ubisoft recreation Star Wars: Outlaws managed in three months.
Murderer’s Creed Shadows can be the most important bodily launch of the yr, forward of Monster Hunter Wilds. Based on knowledge supplied to VGC, Shadows was the sequence’ second-biggest launch ever.
The sport, which launched on console and PC final week, marked the primary main Ubisoft recreation to launch day one on Steam since 2019. Beforehand, the writer prioritized its personal digital retailer, in addition to the Epic Video games Retailer, at launch.
In VGC’s Murderer’s Creed Shadows evaluation we wrote: “With wonderful gameplay, a compelling narrative and a large, stunning world to discover, it’s so a lot better than many anticipated it to be.
“Even when it’s not the sport that saves Ubisoft, it did precisely what it wanted to, bringing confidence again to certainly one of trendy gaming’s greatest and most troubled franchises.”
Shadows additionally arrives throughout a pivotal second for writer Ubisoft. Following a number of underperforming releases and a worsening monetary outlook, Ubisoft stated in January it was taking “decisive steps” to reshape the corporate and “actively exploring numerous strategic and capitalistic choices to unlock the complete worth potential” of its property.
