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10 Best Assassin’s Creed Games to Play
Compare ten Assassin’s Creed adventures for stealth, exploration, RPG progression and sailing, with spoiler-free premises and official trailers.
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The best Assassin’s Creed for you depends on whether you want a carefully planned infiltration, a sprawling RPG, or a ship pointed toward the next island. This selection makes room for those differences. It assesses individual games rather than promising that one recommendation will suit every fan, and treats Black Flag Resynced as the modern version selected for its particular adventure. The stories below are introduced through their settings and protagonists, with later twists left alone. Before buying an older game, check the current edition, account requirements, and availability of any online features separately from its single-player campaign.
For a broader comparison, see our stealth games on PC guide.
10. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
Syndicate gives you Jacob and Evie Frye in Victorian London, with a city whose rooftops, streets, and moving traffic encourage a lively approach to navigation. The siblings give its adventure two perspectives without requiring the story to be explained in advance. Choose it if a dense urban setting sounds more appealing than a map dominated by countryside. Its mix of infiltration and street-level conflict makes it approachable when you want the series in a more compact form than the later RPGs. Check the current platform version and performance updates rather than assuming the original console release describes every available edition.
Official game trailer — PlayStation Europe. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – Jacob Launch Trailer.
9. Assassin’s Creed Unity
Unity centers on Arno in revolutionary Paris, where crowded streets and intricate buildings make the city itself a major attraction. Pick it if you enjoy finding an entrance, reading a space, and attempting an assassination with some control over the approach. Its movement systems take practice and can be uneven, so patience helps more than expecting every rooftop transition to feel automatic. The single-player campaign is the core recommendation. Online cooperative missions are a separate feature whose current availability and requirements should be checked before purchase. Its opening personal conflict is enough context without learning where Arno’s relationships eventually lead.
Official game trailer — PlayStation Europe. Assassin’s Creed Unity | Launch trailer.
8. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
Valhalla follows Eivor from a Norse home into the competing ambitions of England, with settlement growth providing a recurring point of return. It is the pick for someone who wants a long journey filled with regional stories, equipment, and optional distractions. That breadth can also be a drawback if you prefer the tighter city-based games. Choose it because that scale appeals to you, not because completing the whole series seems obligatory. The base game and its expansions are separate content decisions, and an edition’s name is not a reliable substitute for reading what is included.
Official game trailer — PlayStation. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – Launch Trailer | PS5.
7. Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Mirage puts Basim in Baghdad and gives investigation, parkour, and infiltration a more concentrated role than the largest RPG entries. It is a useful choice if the urban assassin fantasy is what drew you to the series in the first place. Learning a district and thinking about a route can matter more than collecting another distant map marker. The game has connections to the wider series, but a detailed character recap risks spoiling the very questions it sets up. Pick it for its focused structure, while recognizing that it is not intended to offer Valhalla’s sheer volume of activities.
Official game trailer — PlayStation. Assassin’s Creed Mirage – Launch Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games.
6. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Odyssey follows a mercenary across ancient Greece, with travel, conversation choices, equipment, and open combat giving it a clear RPG identity. Choose it if building a character and taking detours through a large world sound like the point of the journey. It is less obvious for a player who wants almost every mission to revolve around a tightly controlled stealth approach. Its family-centered opening gives the adventure personal stakes without requiring later revelations to be summarized. Check the base-game and expansion packages carefully, particularly if you want a specific story arc rather than every extra in a premium edition.
Official game trailer — PlayStation. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – Launch Trailer | PS4.
5. Assassin’s Creed Origins
Origins follows Bayek in ancient Egypt, mixing exploration and equipment-driven combat with a more personal search for answers. It is a good entry point for players curious about the series’ move toward a broader RPG format. Wandering through settlements and the surrounding landscape is a major part of the appeal, so leave some room between main objectives. This recommendation does not require revealing how the larger Assassin story comes together. Choose it for its setting and character-led journey. Additional regions and story expansions are separate purchases or bundle contents, which should be checked against the edition you actually intend to buy.
Official launch trailer on Ubisoft’s localized Chinese channel. Assassin’s Creed: Origins – Legend of the Assassin Launch Trailer.
4. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Brotherhood brings Ezio to Rome and gives him reasons to influence the city beyond completing the next assassination. Recruiting allies and navigating a large urban space create a satisfying sense of building momentum. Pick it if you already enjoyed Assassin’s Creed II and want more of that character and style. It follows the earlier story directly, so II is the better first stop for a newcomer. Its single-player campaign is the reason for the recommendation; historical multiplayer features are not a promise of current service. Modern collection packages can be convenient, but compare their contents and supported platforms.
Official Brotherhood single-player launch trailer, localized Dutch upload. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood – Single Player Launch Trailer [NL].
3. Assassin’s Creed II
Assassin’s Creed II gives Ezio a personal reason to enter a world of rival factions, with Italian cities providing memorable spaces to climb and investigate. Its balance of movement, discovery, and a clearly developing protagonist makes it one of the easiest older entries to recommend. Choose it if you want to understand why the series’ character-led urban adventures developed such a following. Expect older mission design and controls, rather than the combat and dialogue systems of the later RPGs. The Ezio Collection is one modern route to investigate on supported consoles, while the PC release has its own requirements and edition details.
Official Assassin’s Creed II launch trailer. Assassin’s Creed 2 – Launch Trailer.
2. Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Shadows places Naoe and Yasuke in feudal Japan, using their different approaches to offer more than one way into a dangerous situation. Stealth, direct combat, and the spaces between objectives give it an identity beyond simply moving the familiar formula to another map. Choose it if you like switching perspectives and deciding which strengths fit the task ahead. The contrast is the useful spoiler-free starting point; the story can introduce the protagonists’ connections itself. Check the current PC or console requirements and the contents of any expansion bundle, especially when comparing a base-game offer with a more expensive edition.
Official game trailer — PlayStation. Assassin’s Creed Shadows – Launch Trailer | PS5 Games.
1. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced
Black Flag Resynced is the version selected here for Edward Kenway’s pirate adventure, where sailing, naval encounters, island exploration, and on-foot missions share the journey. Pick it if the attraction is heading out to sea with a new destination in mind, then finding reasons to stop along the way. It is a remake of Black Flag, so the original game is not ranked again as if it were another story. Read the remake’s own feature and platform information rather than transferring every old multiplayer or technical assumption to it. Edward’s early ambitions provide plenty of context without outlining his whole career.
Official game trailer — PlayStation. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced – Horizon Launch Trailer | PS5 Games.
Which Should You Play First?
Choose Mirage for a focused city adventure, Odyssey or Valhalla for a larger RPG commitment, and Black Flag Resynced for sailing. Assassin’s Creed II followed by Brotherhood remains a useful route through Ezio’s story. The right starting point is the format you want to spend time with, rather than whichever map has the most icons.
If you want to explore another direction, our open-world games guide offers a useful next step.
