Assassin's Creed Shadows

Title Update 1.1.13 is the latest Assassin's Creed Shadows maintenance patch and released on August 25, 2026 with minor user-interface fixes. Ubisoft's final major content update remains Title Update 1.1.11, which released on June 16 for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S and on June 19 for Nintendo Switch 2. That major update added the Black Tides story finale, Domains endgame challenges, the Horizon Animus Rift, and the Riptides and Undertow cross-title Animus Hub Projects. Title Update 1.1.12 followed in late July with additional bug fixes, while Ubisoft currently has no plans for another major content update.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is built around two playable protagonists with separate progression, equipment, abilities, and combat identities. Naoe specializes in infiltration and mobility, using light, darkness, sound, crouching, prone movement, parkour, a physics-based grappling hook, Eagle Vision, the Hidden Blade, kunai, shuriken, smoke bombs, and other shinobi tools. Yasuke is designed for direct confrontation, with heavier attacks, defensive techniques, and weapons including katana, kanabo, bows, naginata, and other combat-focused equipment.

Exploration is driven by information gathering instead of automatically revealing every objective. Players use Observe, viewpoints, clues, Scouts, and the Objective Board to identify locations and targets. Kakurega provide regional safehouses and fast-travel points, while the customizable Hideout supports crafting, equipment management, ally training, scout expansion, and building upgrades.

Character progression combines normal experience levels with Knowledge Rank and Mastery Points. Knowledge activities unlock additional ability tiers, while Mastery Points purchase active and passive abilities across character and weapon-specific skill paths. New Game+ allows completed characters to carry skills, gear, allies, and Hideout progression into another playthrough.

The story takes place in late Sengoku-period Japan and follows Naoe, a shinobi Assassin from Iga Province, and Yasuke, an African samurai. The open world covers castle towns, ports, shrines, countryside, mountains, castles, and other locations affected by changing seasons, weather, lighting, and reactive environmental systems. The Claws of Awaji expansion extends the world to Awaji Island beyond Osaka Bay.