It’s clear by now that Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has been a success for Ubisoft, even though that’s inexplicably resulted in the publisher laying off many of the developers that made it possible. A tally of 2m copies sold on launch day is an impressive number, and new data underlines just how big the launch has actually been on Steam.
Market data company Alinea Analytics – which analysed the game’s pre-launch performance – shared an updated look at how Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has been doing on Steam since release. As of 13th July, 701k copies have apparently been sold there, making $35m in revenue, with an extra $1m coming from minor DLC sales.
Alinea calls Black Flag Resynced the biggest Assassin’s Creed launch on Steam yet, and while that initially sounds startlingly impressive, it’s worth taking into account that 2025’s Shadows was the first game to release simultaneously on Steam. In the past, Ubisoft had favoured its own Ubisoft Connect PC platform, but the strategy changed following a handful of underperforming releases such as Star Wars Outlaws.
“On day one alone, Resynced pulled in $22.4m on Steam, 2.35x what Shadows managed on its own launch day ($9.5m),” Alinea highlighted. And four days in, sales sat at $35.1m versus Shadows’ $22.2m, “roughly 1.58x ahead and pulling away”. Edward Kenway’s adventure is also far ahead of previous Assassin’s Creed instalments Valhalla and Mirage in total revenue.
The story around launch-day DLC packs – which combine to cost a total of more than $85 – is more complicated. While Alinea states that players are generally avoiding the cosmetic bundles, with only around two percent of players spending money on them, a higher six percent of players bought the $5 map pack that reveals certain items in the world.
Cosmetic microtransactions caused some backlash early on, leading to review-bombing, which may or may not have pushed Ubisoft to remove comments about microtransactions making games “more fun” in a recent financial report.
Eurogamer’s three-star Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced review called it “a perfectly fine way of experiencing” the 2013 modern open-world classic, yet the additions “are not universally positive, and as a result it leaves the original feeling misshapen, wonky, a bit rogue”.
