Ubisoft said Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced sold 2 million copies on its first day

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Vantage Studios, a Ubisoft company, announced on Jul 10, 2026 that Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced sold 2 million copies on its first day, the company’s launch day results for a game released on Jul 9. Ubisoft called this a strong start and said the trend was expected to continue. It filed the announcement with the AMF, France's financial markets regulator, as inside information, the label for news that a listed company must publish as soon as it can because it may move its share price.1^,2^,3^,4^,5

The company said the game reached a peak of 99 451 concurrent players on Steam within 24 hours of launch, the highest concurrent player count ever recorded for an Assassin's Creed title on the platform. It gave the game review scores of 85% on OpenCritic and 84% on Metacritic and said that made it the highest-rated Assassin’s Creed game since the original Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag. The company also reported that IGN scored the game 9/10. On player ratings, it cited 4.79 out of 5 on the PlayStation Store and 4.7 out of 5 on the Xbox Store as of that day, with Mostly Positive reviews on Steam.6^,7^,8^,9

Black Flag Resynced is a remake of Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, which was first released in 2013. The release said Ubisoft Singapore led the work and that the game was rebuilt from the ground up on the latest Anvil engine. Ubisoft Bordeaux, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Montréal, Ubisoft Québec and Ubisoft Singapore are listed as the game’s developers and Ubisoft as its publisher. A footnote in the release adds further co-development studios, among them Ubisoft Barcelona, Ubisoft Belgrade and Ubisoft Kyiv. The release said the game was available on Ubisoft+, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and, on PC, through the Ubisoft Store, Steam and the Epic Games Store. The release described Vantage Studios, which made the announcement, as a Ubisoft company founded in 2025.10^,11^,12^,13^,14^,15

Martin Schelling, head of the Assassin’s Creed brand, said in the release that seeing so many players set sail on day one, along with the critics’ reviews, was the greatest reward the team could have hoped for.16^,17

We hold the text of this one release, in English: 5,603 characters on 3 pages, with its pictures and layout left out. We hold none of the documents it refers to, and the text we hold does not say how the 2 million copies divide across platforms or storefronts.18^,2