Friday, March 14th 2025
Assassin's Creed Shadows Gets Steam Deck Verified Rating Ahead of Launch, Graphics Settings Locked Until Later Update
On more than one occasion, Assassin's Creed Shadows developer, Ubisoft, has assured gamers that the upcoming Assassin's Creed title set in feudal Japan would be playable on the Steam Deck and, by extension, desktop Linux, via Valve's Proton. Ubisoft, however, was seemingly convinced that Shadows would not get the official Steam Deck Verified rating in time for release. In mid-February 2025, Ubisoft confirmed via a Steam Community post that the Steam Deck did not meet the minimum hardware requirements necessary for a smooth gameplay experience, but today, Ubisoft announced that Assassin's Creed Shadows will be Steam Deck Verified on launch day.
This comes after Ubisoft also announced that Assassin's Creed Shadows will also support day-one Steam Achievements, as opposed to other Assassin's Creed games, which only got Steam Achievements later on. According to the post announcing the Steam Deck Verified status, Ubisoft's development team had to put significant work into optimizing Assassin's Creed Shadows to get it to run properly on the Steam Deck. Perhaps somewhat frustratingly, it seems as though Ubisoft is forcing Steam Deck players into a pre-determined set of graphics settings, with no ability to tweak them at launch on the Steam Deck. There will apparently be multiple upscalers from which players can choose, although Ubisoft did not specify what the options would be.
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Ubisoft via Steam
This comes after Ubisoft also announced that Assassin's Creed Shadows will also support day-one Steam Achievements, as opposed to other Assassin's Creed games, which only got Steam Achievements later on. According to the post announcing the Steam Deck Verified status, Ubisoft's development team had to put significant work into optimizing Assassin's Creed Shadows to get it to run properly on the Steam Deck. Perhaps somewhat frustratingly, it seems as though Ubisoft is forcing Steam Deck players into a pre-determined set of graphics settings, with no ability to tweak them at launch on the Steam Deck. There will apparently be multiple upscalers from which players can choose, although Ubisoft did not specify what the options would be.
12 Comments on Assassin's Creed Shadows Gets Steam Deck Verified Rating Ahead of Launch, Graphics Settings Locked Until Later Update
Steam Deck is 1.6 TFLOPS with an 800p screen. So less than 30 fps in up to 240p? Are we back to the DOS era?
Speaking of, Ubisoft are clearly trying to make it run on everything with a display. The new Doom has arrived :pimp:
The veil has been destroyed, everyone can see this franchise has completely dried up.
The wider picture is Ubisoft know they are cooked so they are aiming to get it out on as many platforms as possible to make as much money back. Even Apple Mac.
My apologies if anything otherwise seemed implied.