Series guide
All Assassin’s Creed games in order
By Lenn Hodes · founder — every cartridge tested by hand
Assassin’s Creed has two orders and they disagree completely: the release order starts in the Crusades and the story order starts in ancient Greece. Below are all fifteen main games in release order with their historical setting in each line, then the spin-offs and collections — the Switch and PlayStation copies are the ones we stock and test — and the buying notes on which cartridges are complete.
The short answer
Assassin’s Creed (2007) → II → Brotherhood → Revelations (2011) → III → IV: Black Flag (2013) → Rogue and Unity (2014) → Syndicate → Origins (2017) → Odyssey → Valhalla (2020) → Mirage (2023) → Shadows (2025) → Black Flag Resynced (2026). Start with II or Origins.
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Every main Assassin’s Creed in order
- Assassin’s Creed · 2007 · PS3, Xbox 360, PC — Altaïr in the Holy Land, 1191 — the Animus, Desmond, and the template
- Assassin’s Creed II · 2009 · PS3, Xbox 360, PC — Ezio in Renaissance Italy, 1476-1499 — the game that made the series
- Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood · 2010 · PS3, Xbox 360, PC — Ezio in Rome, 1499-1507, recruiting his own assassins; the first multiplayer
- Assassin’s Creed: Revelations · 2011 · PS3, Xbox 360, PC — old Ezio in Constantinople, 1511, closing his and Altaïr’s stories
- Assassin’s Creed III · 2012 · PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PC — Connor in the American Revolution, 1754-1783 — a Wii U launch title, and the end of Desmond’s story
- Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag · 2013 · PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PC — Edward Kenway’s Caribbean, 1715 — the pirate game, and the one on the Switch Rebel Collection
- Assassin’s Creed Rogue · 2014 · PS3, Xbox 360, PC (Remastered 2018) — Shay, a Templar, in the Seven Years’ War, 1752-1760 — the other half of the Rebel Collection
- Assassin’s Creed Unity · 2014 · PS4, Xbox One, PC — Arno in revolutionary Paris, 1789-1794; the crowds, the co-op, and the launch that needed months of patches
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate · 2015 · PS4, Xbox One, PC — the Frye twins in Victorian London, 1868 — the last of the classic formula
- Assassin’s Creed Origins · 2017 · PS4, Xbox One, PC — Bayek in Ptolemaic Egypt, 49-43 BC — the RPG reboot, and the origin of the Brotherhood
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey · 2018 · PS4, Xbox One, PC (Switch cloud, Japan) — Kassandra or Alexios in the Peloponnesian War, 431-422 BC — the biggest map in the series
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla · 2020 · PS5, PS4, Xbox Series, Xbox One, PC — Eivor in ninth-century England and Norway — a PS5 launch game, and the best-selling entry
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage · 2023 · PS5, PS4, Xbox Series, Xbox One, PC (iPhone 2024) — Basim in ninth-century Baghdad — a shorter return to stealth, spun out of Valhalla
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows · 2025 · PS5, Xbox Series, PC (Switch 2 2025) — Naoe and Yasuke in Sengoku Japan, 1579 — released 20 March 2025 after two delays
- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced · 2026 · PS5, Xbox Series, PC — released 9 July 2026: a full remake of Black Flag with the modern-day story continuing from Shadows — Ubisoft counts it as the fifteenth main game
The spin-offs and collections in order
- Altaïr’s Chronicles and Bloodlines · 2008 · DS, PSP — the two handheld originals — Altaïr’s Chronicles on DS (2008) and Bloodlines on PSP (2009); the only Assassin’s Creed on a DS cartridge
- Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery · 2009 · DS, iOS — Ezio in Spain as a 2.5D side-scroller — the second DS cartridge
- Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation · 2012 · PS Vita (HD 2014) — Aveline in New Orleans, 1765-1777; now bundled with III Remastered
- Assassin’s Creed Chronicles · 2015 · PS4, Xbox One, PC, Vita — three 2.5D games — China (2015), India and Russia (2016) — also sold together as one trilogy pack
- The Ezio Collection · 2016 · PS4, Xbox One (Switch 2022) — II, Brotherhood and Revelations remastered, and on a Switch cartridge since 2022
- The Rebel Collection · 2019 · Nintendo Switch — Black Flag and Rogue with all their DLC on one cartridge — the best Assassin’s Creed on Switch
- Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR · 2023 · Meta Quest — Ezio, Kassandra and Connor in virtual reality
Do you have to play them in order?
Only for the modern-day story, which runs in release order and matters less with every game. The historical stories are mostly self-contained; the exceptions are Ezio’s trilogy (II → Brotherhood → Revelations), Mirage after Valhalla, and Black Flag Resynced, whose present-day thread picks up where Shadows left off. The release order does show the series’ two halves: the stealth games up to Syndicate, and the RPGs from Origins on — with Mirage as the one step back.
Which Assassin’s Creed should you buy now?
- On a Switch: The Rebel Collection — Black Flag and Rogue, complete, on one region-free cartridge.
- The classic trilogy: The Ezio Collection, on PS4 or Switch.
- The RPG era: Odyssey for size, Origins for story — both PS4 discs that play on PS5.
- The newest: Black Flag Resynced on PS5, or Shadows if you want a new story.
- The best-seller: Valhalla — on a PS5 disc, with the largest campaign in the series.
Buying Assassin’s Creed second-hand
The Switch cartridges are complete editions
The Rebel Collection holds Black Flag with Freedom Cry and every DLC, plus Rogue and its DLC, on one cartridge; The Ezio Collection holds three games and their DLC; III Remastered includes Liberation. On Switch they are downloads too, but the cartridges are region-free and need no code — check that the case actually contains a cartridge, because some Switch boxes carry only a download code.
The Wii U got two, and they play only there
Assassin’s Creed III and IV: Black Flag came to the Wii U, with the map on the GamePad. They are proper versions of the games, not cut down, but a Wii U disc plays only on a Wii U — not on a Wii and not on a Switch. If you want Black Flag on a Nintendo console today, the Switch Rebel Collection is the one to buy.
PS4 discs play on a PS5 — and the big ones need a big download
Origins, Odyssey and the PS4 disc of Valhalla and Mirage all run on a PlayStation 5 with a disc drive; the Valhalla and Mirage PS4 discs include the PS5 upgrade. Expect updates of tens of gigabytes on the recent games before they play. A PS5 Digital Edition has no drive, so no disc plays on it. Black Flag Resynced is a PS5 disc only.
Online features come and go
Ubisoft has closed the online services of several older games — the multiplayer of Brotherhood, Revelations and III on the old consoles, for example — while the campaigns remain untouched. Everything in this series is playable from start to finish offline; only the multiplayer and the companion-app extras of the 2010-2015 games are gone.
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Browse tested PlayStation gamesQuestions we get asked
What is the story order of the Assassin’s Creed games?
By historical setting: Odyssey (431 BC) → Origins (49 BC) → Mirage (861) → Valhalla (873) → Assassin’s Creed (1191) → II, Brotherhood, Revelations (1476-1512) → Shadows (1579) → Black Flag (1715) → Rogue (1752) → III (1754) → Liberation (1765) → Unity (1789) → Syndicate (1868). The modern-day story runs in release order, from the first game to Black Flag Resynced.
How many Assassin’s Creed games are there?
Fifteen main games from Assassin’s Creed (2007) to Black Flag Resynced (2026), counting Rogue and Mirage. Add Liberation, the two DS games and Bloodlines, Discovery, the three Chronicles, Nexus VR, the mobile games and the collections, and the total is over thirty.
Which Assassin’s Creed should I start with?
Assassin’s Creed II for the classic series — or The Ezio Collection, which gives you its whole trilogy. Origins or Odyssey for the RPG era. Black Flag, in the Rebel Collection or as the 2026 Resynced remake, if you want the game most players name as their favourite.
What is the newest Assassin’s Creed game?
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, released on 9 July 2026 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC — a remake of the 2013 game. The newest new story is Assassin’s Creed Shadows (20 March 2025); the next one, Assassin’s Creed Hexe, is due in 2027.
Which Assassin’s Creed games are on Nintendo consoles?
Switch: The Rebel Collection (Black Flag and Rogue), The Ezio Collection, III Remastered with Liberation, and Odyssey as a cloud version in Japan only. Switch 2: Shadows. Wii U: III and IV: Black Flag. DS: Altaïr’s Chronicles and II: Discovery.
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Years given are the first release; the series has launched worldwide within days since 2009. Onze Nintendo Switch-collectie in het Nederlands.