Assassin’s Creed Shadows is not only a big success, but recent figures indicate that it is one of the best-selling video games of 2025 so far. The latest Assassin’s Creed game finally takes the historical action franchise to feudal Japan, where a young shinobi named Naoe and foreign-born samurai Yasuke band together to hunt down the people responsible for the death of Naoe’s father. Assassin’s Creed Shadowswould be faced with numerous delays and controversies leading up to its March 2025 launch, but the finished product has been getting good reviews so far.