Assassin’s Creed Shadows Delayed To Feb 2025, Partly Due To Poor Start For Star Wars Outlaws

It’s feature complete, but still needs more time

by Fraser Gilbert Yesterday, 5:30pm

Bad news for anyone who’s been looking forward to Assassin’s Creed Shadows – it’s just been delayed from its planned November 15th launch to February 14, 2025. The reason? It needs more polish and refinement.

In a message posted on social media, the team advised that the delay was in the “best interest of the game” and promised that although pre-orders are being cancelled, all future pre-orders will get the game’s first expansion for free.

Ubisoft also mentioned today how Star Wars Outlaws was considered when making the decision to delay Assassin’s Creed Shadows, as the company wanted to take the “learnings” from that game into this one. Outlaws suffered from a “softer than expected” launch, and Ubisoft’s goal is now to improve it and turn it into a long-term performer.

“Assassin’s Creed Shadows will now be released on 14 February 2025. While the game is feature complete, the learnings from the Star Wars Outlaws release led us to provide additional time to further polish the title.”

Interestingly, Assassin’s Creed Shadows will no longer be using Ubisoft’s traditional Season Pass model – instead, all players will be able to jump in at the same time on February 14th, so there are no early access benefits for this one.

So there you go! It’s a shame about the delay, but hopefully it’ll make for a better game next year.

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Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.

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