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

It’s become clear in the days since Assassin’s Creed Shadows launched last week that the open world action RPG has got off to the solid start that the embattled Ubisoft would have been hoping for, with over 2 million players in its first two days. Unsurprisingly, that’s also reflected in the game’s physical launch sales in the UK. 

As shared by journalist Christopher Dring on BlueSky, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has enjoyed the biggest physical launch for a game in the UK this year. It has, in fact, even “comfortably” outsold Monster Hunter Wilds, to put its start into perspective.

Meanwhile, it is also performing significantly better than Ubisoft’s last major AAA release, Star Wars Outlaws, having sold more physical copies in its first week that Outlaws did in its first three months. However, Shadows’ launch sales are still “well short” of what 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla managed, according to Dring.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Read our review of the game through here, where we awarded it a score of 9/10.