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11 Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launched on July 9, 2026 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and was Steam Deck Verified at launch. This page covers the game's commercial performance and critical reception. It documents the Ubisoft Singapore remake, not the 2013 original.
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44 Commercial Performance
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66 Ubisoft reported two million copies sold on the first day of release, and sales passed three million within the game's first week. On Steam, the remake reached a peak of 104,756 concurrent players on July 12, 2026, during its launch week, which Ubisoft described as the highest concurrent player count ever recorded for an Assassin's Creed game on the platform. That peak placed it above other recent entries in the series on Steam.
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88 Two weeks after release Ubisoft reported 3.5 million copies sold in, which the publisher said had already exceeded the sales it expected the game to make across a full year. Ubisoft also described the launch as a record performance for the series on PC, with the PC share of sales the highest the franchise has seen, led by the United States and China.
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1010 Critical Reception
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1212 Resynced launched to generally favorable reviews and was widely described as the best-reviewed Assassin's Creed game since the 2013 original, ranking among the higher-rated entries in the series. Praise centered on the reworked naval combat and the visual overhaul delivered by the latest generation of the Anvil engine. Criticism focused on the removal of the original modern-day Abstergo sequences, which Resynced replaces with optional What-If rifts, and on the live-service framing of the Animus Hub reward tracks and its Exchange, whose stock is bought with a currency earned in play rather than with money. Opinion on the reworked combat was split, with some players preferring the simpler system of the 2013 original.
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1414 Aggregate critic scores settled at 84 out of 100 on PC and PlayStation 5 and 82 on Xbox Series X|S. Ubisoft has described the game as the highest-rated Assassin's Creed title since the 2013 original and said player sentiment strengthened in the weeks after release.
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1818 At launch Ubisoft acknowledged several issues and said fixes were rolling out. On PC, cutscenes could be capped at 30 FPS when Raytracing, BVH, or Terrain Quality was set to Ultra High, with a workaround of resetting the graphics preset. Some territories reported localization and voice-over problems, and a few players initially could not access their local language pack. Full details are on the system requirements and performance page.
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2020 Post-Launch Support
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2222 On July 16, 2026, Ubisoft released Title Update 1.0.4, the first major post-launch patch. It fixed the launch-window PC and localization problems described above, corrected a range of gameplay and stability bugs, and rebalanced the dynamic weather system toward clearer skies. Ubisoft has also confirmed that a New Game Plus mode is in development for a later update.
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2424 A PC-only patch, Title Update 1.0.5, followed on July 22, 2026 and targeted the stuttering some PC players had reported. Title Update 1.0.6 arrived on August 4, 2026 and was the largest post-launch patch so far. Its headline change lets players hide the blowpipe from Edward's back through a Hide Gear toggle in the outfit menu, and it raised the number of autosave slots from five to ten. It also corrected a mispriced Kraken wheel, added a missing tutorial for throwing money, and worked through a long list of combat, naval, world, interface, audio, and quest fixes.
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26+Title Update 1.0.7 released on September 1, 2026. It extended the Hide Gear system to Edward's pistols in addition to the blowpipe, added a toggle to disable the glowing visual effects perks apply to Edward, and introduced a rescuable companion animal that can join the player back at the hideout. It also worked through a further round of combat, naval, world, and quest fixes.
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2628 New Game Plus has still not been dated. The game director has said the mode is among the first major additions the team wants to deliver, but that it is early in design and cannot simply be carried over, because the original game never shipped a New Game Plus for the team to build from.