Throughout its 16-year historical past, the Assassin’s Creed has explored quite a few areas, historic durations, protagonists, mythologies, and even genres. It’s this expansiveness, constructed on a basis of extremely detailed worlds, partaking tales, and evolving gameplay, that’s led Assassin’s Creed to turn out to be Ubisoft’s most profitable franchise, and what makes for such all kinds of AC followers.
There’s so much to take pleasure in in Assassin’s Creed video games, and lots of of their finest attributes may be discovered within the video games we’ve compiled beneath. As we await the discharge of Assassin’s Creed Mirage later this yr, these are 9 video games we advocate for Assassin’s Creed followers, whether or not you come to the sequence for its wealthy open worlds, historic fiction, mythological exploration, or old-school stealth-action gameplay.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
For followers of Assassin’s Creed’s fight, RPG mechanics, and open-world design.
In evolving Assassin’s Creed’s core mechanics from stealth-action to action-RPG, Ubisoft cited Skyrim, Fallout, and The Witcher 3 amongst its inspirations, although none is extra obvious than CD Projekt’s 2015 RPG epic.
In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Valhalla particularly, the record of design similarities features a huge open world stuffed with over 100 hours of content material, an emphasis on participant company by narrative choices and branching dialogue (together with a strikingly related dialogue-selection design), and comparable gear techniques. Gameplay-wise, The Witcher 3 options fast-paced, third-person motion fight akin to that present in Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla, although it provides one other wrinkle with indicators (i.e., magical talents).
Tastes will differ, however The Witcher 3 arguably does all this higher than Assssin’s Creed, main us to call it the finest RPG of the final 15 years and one of many ten finest RPGs of all time.
Horizon Zero Dawn & Forbidden West
For followers of Assassin’s Creed’s fight, traversal, RPG mechanics, and open-world design.
Similar to our suggestion for The Witcher 3, Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West are third-person, open-world action-RPGs that ought to attraction to followers of the newest Assassin’s Creed video games. Both video games provide fluid third-person fight with viable choices for close-quarters melee and long-range bow-and-arrow assaults, in addition to satisfying stealth mechanics and free-climbing techniques. On the RPG entrance, every affords dialogue selections and a gear-based loot system with stat-affecting weapons and armor.
Like the latest Assassin’s Creed video games, Horizon encompasses a huge map teeming with finally unimportant factors of curiosity, making it a terrific suggestion for individuals who wish to discover AC’s worlds whereas splitting their consideration between a recreation and a podcast/audio e book.
Ghost of Tsushima
For followers of Assassin’s Creed’s fight, historic fiction, and open-world design.
Assassin’s Creed will lastly discover the long-requested feudal Japan setting in Codename Red, however within the meantime, Ghost of Tsushima presents a superb alternative to discover that historical past by stealth-action gameplay. (Our Ghost of Tsushima assessment likened its fight to “a witches’ brew made with bits of the Batman Arkham sequence, the pre-Origins Assassin’s Creeds, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.”)
In addition to its third-person, stealth-melee fight, Assassin’s Creed followers will discover a acquainted degree of open-world exploration couched in historic fiction: Ghost of Tsushima options dozens of facet quests and a predominant narrative set through the real-world, Thirteenth-century invasion of Japan by the Mongol Empire.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor & War
For followers of Assassin’s Creed’s fight, traversal, and Mercenaries system.
WB’s Middle-earth video games are one other straightforward suggestion for Assassin’s Creed followers. AC gamers will really feel at dwelling with the video games’ shared mechanics: third-person motion fight and climbing/parkour techniques (together with air assassinations). Shadow of Mordor’s fight and air assassinations had been so harking back to AC {that a} former Ubisoft developer urged Monolith used code from Assassin’s Creed 2. (This suggestion highlights the video games’ similarities, although WB was by no means formally accused of stealing code.)
Shadow of Mordor additionally launched the ingenious Nemesis system, a villain generator that turns traditionally anonymous NPCs into recurring rivals. It’s right here that Ubisoft took a chew out of Monolith’s design, integrating an analogous system in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey with Mercenaries.
God of War 2018 & Ragnarok
For followers of Assassin’s Creed’s fight and exploration of Norse mythology.
Fans of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Norse setting and mythology are certain to like what God of War 2018 and God of War Ragnarok provide in these (9) realms. While AC Valhalla strikes between Norse historical past and mythology, God of War takes place firmly inside the area’s mythos with visceral third-person fight and a visually putting world to inhabit and discover.
Opinions could differ, however God of War’s Norse-set duology encompasses a tighter narrative, higher character improvement, and extra rewarding facet content material — all to say in case you loved Valhalla’s exploration of Norse mythology, God of War and Ragnarok are should-play video games. You can try our information to God of War video games so as for extra particulars concerning the sequence.
Far Cry
For followers of Assassin’s Creed’s open-world design.
Ubisoft’s personal Far Cry sequence will attraction to Assassin’s Creed followers who take pleasure in traversing open-world maps, bopping from marker to marker finishing miscellaneous aims. Above another video games, Far Cry 3–6 share the varieties of open-world aims present in Assassin’s Creed, together with towers to climb, outposts to clear, and collectibles to find. Unlike Assassin’s Creed, nonetheless, Far Cry is performed from a first-person perspective, and its fight depends largely on firearms.
Similar to our suggestion for the Horizon video games, Far Cry’s bounty of senseless facet actions are nice for AC followers who take pleasure in ‘guidelines’ or ‘podcast’ video games.
It’s right here we’ll give a nod to Watch Dogs: Legion as effectively, one other Ubisoft recreation constructed on related open-world design philosophy.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
For followers of Assassin’s Creed’s old-school platforming, puzzles, and fight.
The most obvious entry on this record is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, given it’s Ubisoft’s precursor to the Assassin’s Creed franchise: AC got here to be whereas Ubisoft was exploring a sequel to Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, as detailed in IGN’s History of Assassin’s Creed. This connection is obvious in Sands of Time’s mixture of platforming, puzzles, and acrobatic fight — key options of the primary a number of Assassin’s Creed video games.
The finest solution to play 2003’s Sands of Time is on PC or by backward compatibility on Xbox. However, these understandably delicate to dated gameplay are higher off ready for the Sands of Time remake presently in improvement at Ubisoft Montreal.
Immortals Fenyx Rising
For followers of Assassin’s Creed’s open-world design and exploration of Greek mythology.
The world and narrative of Immortals: Fenyx Rising is absolutely immersed within the Greek mythology Assassin’s Creed Odyssey occassionally dips into. Immortals developer Ubisoft Quebec additionally led work on Odyssey, and its open-world influences may be discovered right here as effectively.
Immortals was truly impressed by a bug from Odyssey’s improvement: “You’d be crusing in your ship,” artistic director Scott Phillips instructed IGN, “however as a substitute of your human crew, you ended up having cyclopes as your crew. It was simply form of a kind of moments like, ‘Oh wow. Yeah, that’d be actually cool truly to do a full recreation centered on this mythology.’”
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
For followers of Assassin’s Creed’s historic fiction.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance doesn’t play like Assassin’s Creed; this suggestion is only for individuals who come to Assassin’s Creed for its well-crafted historic fiction. Warhorse Studios’ medieval RPG is ready within the Fifteenth-century Roman Empire, particularly within the Kingdom of Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic), many years earlier than the story of Ezio Auditore da Firenze begins in one other kingdom of the Roman Empire.
Kingdom Come’s spectacular consideration to element elevates it above different works of interactive historic fiction: From its survival mechanics and the best way NPCs choose your character’s look to the dimensions of its cities and buildings, Kingdom Come “does the medieval period proper, with a degree of element and analysis not often seen beforehand,” in accordance with IGN’s assessment.
Looking for extra from the huge world of Assassin’s Creed? Check out our breakdown of the sequence’ chronology to find one of the best ways to play the Assassin’s Creed video games so as.
Jordan covers video games, reveals, and flicks as a contract author for IGN.
