Assassin’s Creed Shadows fueled a 24% increase in PS5 players across 9 AC games

While the Assassin’s Creed Shadows trophy will keep us hooked when it releases on PS5 later this year, we’re seeing it right now. The reveal of Assassin’s Creed Shadows caused a spike in PS5 players. It looks like the upcoming Assassin’s Creed game may not have had the best-received trailer, but it sure has generated a lot of interest for all the other games in the long-running series – from Assassin’s Creed II on Assassin’s Creed Mirage.

The Assassin’s Creed series is booming on PS5 after a new trailer was revealed

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows was revealed last week, causing a huge spike in player count across the nine PS5 and PS4 entries
• As a whole, Assassin’s Creed Series players up 24%
• Assassin’s Creed Mirage saw the biggest increase with 46% more players

Assassin’s Creed is a very popular franchise with 14 games on PS4 and PS5. In nine games in Assassin’s Creed series, player count increased by 24.4% according to our sample of 3.1 million PSN accounts courtesy of GameInsights. While it’s not unusual for a new game in a popular series to cause a surge in the previous entry, we rarely see the entire franchise to see how the number of players has grown like this.
Everyone is here Assassin’s Creed game that saw player growth, along with the exact percentage each game gained last week (Sunday, May 12, 2024 to Sunday, May 19, 2024) after the reveal Assassin’s Creed Shadows May 15, 2024. The Assassin’s Creed games below are ranked from highest total players to lowest.

As you can see, during the week in which Shadows was revealed, all games had a substantial increase in players. Especially, Assassin’s Creed Mirage saw the biggest increase as the number of players increased by 46% and has the second highest total number of players of all Assassin’s Creed game right now. As I mentioned in my Assassin’s Creed Mirage review – it’s much shorter and more concise than the RPG entries, which might make it easier to dive into.
While Assassin’s Creed Rogue may have seen the least growth of the games listed above, but that’s mostly due to the limits of our data sample. Our preview looks at only the top 500 games for PS5 and PS4 — AC Rogue failed to create a chart in the previous week. So we excluded it from the total percentage for accuracy. However, we ranked it higher as a secret tenth Assassin’s Creed a game that has seen an increase in the number of players because it is worth playing Redone PS4 version if you get a chance!

With a significant number of players than Rascal, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla saw a week-on-week growth of 14%. Its player count was already significant enough to land it at #51 in the top 500 games for PS5 and PS4, so this 14% increase in player count is a pretty big increase in players. The interesting thing is that it looks Brotherhood, Disclosure, Assassin’s Creed IIIand Chronicles games were postponed in favor of the other nine games in the series.

In case you haven’t noticed, Assassin’s Creed the series is on sale starting May 9, 2024. However, we didn’t see a big increase in player numbers in the first week of sales, so sales alone didn’t cause a jump. In fact, we’ve seen the opposite reaction — most games he dropped active players when it went on sale. There were exceptions Assassin’s Creed II, Black flagand Exemptionwhich have all seen a small increase in players for the past two weeks in a row.

Other games in the series dropped for the week ending Sunday, May 12, 2024, and picked up significantly and unanimously for the week ending Sunday, May 19, 2024 — the week the Assassin’s Creed Shadows PS5 trailer was released. So while the sales may have helped facilitate the increase in players, it’s clear that the exposure Assassin’s Creed Shadows played the biggest role in bringing players back to the series.

But what do you think of all the data? We previously reported that Assassin’s Creed Mirage saw a steeper drop in player count in one month than most of the rest of the series, but this event seems to have revived it a bit! So write in the comments and let us know what’s on your mind and I’ll catch you down there Team TrueTrophies!