Assassin's Creed Shadows Standard Edition

Assassin's Creed Shadows is set in 1579, in the Sengoku-era Kansai region — Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and Iga province. It has two protagonists with genuinely different playstyles: Naoe, a shinobi built for stealth and parkour, and Yasuke, a samurai built for standing in the open and winning anyway. Missions are non-linear. You recruit scouts to locate targets rather than following fixed markers, then observe them before committing. Dynamic seasons reshape the map, freezing water and stripping away the foliage you were hiding in. Weapon skill trees cover katana, kusarigama, bow, tanto and matchlock, and you build and decorate your own hideout between contracts. Single-player only. The Standard Edition is the base game. Keys activate on Steam, the Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Connect, Xbox Series, PlayStation 5 or Nintendo Switch 2. One thing to check on every listing: PC keys are sold both as Steam activations and as Ubisoft Connect activations, and the two are not interchangeable. The Steam build does not need the separate launcher but still requires a one-time Ubisoft account link.