The newest instalment in Ubisoft's blockbuster "Assassin's Creed" franchise received a "very positive" rating on Steam based on 751 user reviews, with 80% of them being positive, around four hours after its launch on the game distribution platform.

Ubisoft launched Assassin’s Creed Shadows today, and with it, the latest generation of its open-world stealth-action adventure. There has been a lot of chatter around Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and it seems to have paid off because the game has already allegedly crossed over one million players in the span of an afternoon.

Assassin's Creed made the jump from sneaky action sandboxes to full-fledged RPGs a long time ago, and at first the novelty of all the loot, skill trees, dialogue choices and quests were enough to make it seem like Ubisoft had been successful in its pivot.