Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the UK’s Biggest Physical Launch of 2025

It’s grow to be clear within the days since Murderer’s Creed Shadows launched final week that the open world motion RPG has acquired off to the stable begin that the embattled Ubisoft would have been hoping for, with over 2 million gamers in its first two days. Unsurprisingly, that’s additionally mirrored within the sport’s bodily launch gross sales within the UK. 

As shared by journalist Christopher Dring on BlueSky, Murderer’s Creed Shadows has loved the largest bodily launch for a sport within the UK this 12 months. It has, in actual fact, even “comfortably” outsold Monster Hunter Wilds, to place its begin into perspective.

In the meantime, additionally it is performing considerably higher than Ubisoft’s final main AAA launch, Star Wars Outlaws, having bought extra bodily copies in its first week that Outlaws did in its first three months. Nevertheless, Shadows’ launch gross sales are nonetheless “nicely brief” of what 2020’s Murderer’s Creed Valhalla managed, in keeping with Dring.

Murderer’s Creed Shadows is obtainable on PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC. Learn our evaluation of the sport via right here, the place we awarded it a rating of 9/10.