Later this October, Ubisoft announced that the game Assassin’s Creed Mirage will be launched on Steam.
The Steam release of Mirage comes a year after its initial announcement date, as a PC-exclusive title available on the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Connect, as well as PlayStation and Xbox with regards to console releases – later down the road.
In the past few months, Ubisoft has pulled the same tactic of locking titles exclusively for release on Epic Games for PC launches, a move that will be reversed now when the company releases their titles on Steam at the same time in this upcoming launch calendar.
This shift comes following the disappointing outing of Star Wars Outlaws whose absence and abysmal failure were not felt on Steam. Outlaws is planned to be released on Steam on November 21st, 2024.
Mirage retains an elegant design that can be traced all the way back to the original Assassin’s Creed games, with its main focus on stealth. Characters take the roles of Basim, a cunning youngster living in the jolly district of ninth-century Baghdad. Unlike its latest counterparts, Valhalla and Odyssey fans will find that Mirage is considerably shorter in terms of thorough exploration. IGN gave the game, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, 8/10.
Soon after, Ubisoft made a comment that Mirage had the ‘same level’ of players engaged at the same duration of its launch as Origins and Odyssey. In addition, the company said that Mirage was the biggest launch title for the new generation in terms of units for Ubisoft.
The Steam arrival of Mirage takes place in a difficult year for the studio – unsatisfactory results can be observed in Call of Duty’s competitor XDefiant and the aforementioned Star Wars Outlaws. After these low performances, Ubisoft delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows to 2025, and workers are going to stage a protest next week.
In the latest update to shareholders, Ubisoft chief exec Yves Guillemot said that the company had “underperformed in the second quarter versus our expectations” and committed to the launch of a “review aimed at improving the firm’s performance.” He also briefly talks about cultural issues that have come up at Ubisoft recently especially in response to Star Wars Outlaws and also around the soon-to-be-released Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
The previous week there were rumors that the Gillemet brothers and shareholders Tencent were seriously planning an acquisition of Ubisoft in order to shore up the present falling stock prices, but hopefully, we all hope it ends well for Ubisoft, you loveable giant.
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