13 Assassin's Creed games you can play on PlayStation Plus

PlayStation Plus is the place to go if you want an Assassin’s Creed fix. Not only does the subscription have the most recent RPG trilogy, but you can find a bunch of remastered games, as well as spin-offs. Though the service is missing a few key titles, you can pretty much play the franchise through its biggest hits and get a lot of the story to boot.

If you’ve never dabbled in one of the biggest franchises in video games and you want to know how to play the games in order of the story’s timeline, we’ve got you covered. You can play through all of these and get a good idea of what’s going on in the world of assassins, holy orders, and heritage.

Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection

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While PlayStation Plus is missing the first game in the series, some would argue that, aside from the story which can be summed up elsewhere, you’re not missing much. The game hasn’t aged all that well and it’s really from the second game, which is included in this collection, that the franchise took off. That could be due to the charismatic and brilliant Ezio, the central protagonist, but it is also due to Ubisoft embracing the franchise and delivering a great story bursting with details, much like their recreation of Italy.

Assassin’s Creed 3: Remastered

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Assassin’s Creed 3 carries on the story of the Animus and the various assassins to use it, but the story started to get a bit lost here. It seemed Ubisoft missed the mark after the wild success of the second game and its spin-offs. However, this is Ubisoft beginning to lean into the historical details that have made the franchise a mainstay. Some would say this entry has the weakest characters, but it’s a must-play for completionists.

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

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Perhaps a leader in the entries loved by fans, Black Flag managed to nail the pirate lifestyle with a healthy amount of assassinations. It has good characters, great ship combat, and core gameplay that so many have since tried to emulate with varying degrees of success - including Ubisoft themselves. It’s a high point in the franchise and still plays well at this point in the series history.

Assassin’s Creed Rogue: Remastered

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An underrated gem in the franchise, Rogue is set in the North Atlantic, keeping ship combat from Black Flag. It takes place during the French and Indian War and features Irish American Shay Patrick Cormac. While many consider this to be a solid entry in the series, it was overshadowed by Unity which would follow and it felt like Ubisoft spread themselves too thin, neglecting the story here.

Assassin’s Creed Unity

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By this point, Ubisoft was so dedicated to the franchise that it came at the expense of quality. Unity was supposed to be a huge release, but it was panned upon release for graphical issues and repetitive gameplay. This was helped by post-launch patches and the game shines a lot more now. The creation of Paris during the French Revolution is a gem from the many games and it is still well-celebrated for its authenticity.

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

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Taking Assassin’s Creed to London was an inevitability and we finally reached that point with Syndicate. Perhaps seeing their past errors, Ubisoft brought out the big guns for this entry and combined a wealth of improved mechanics with both a highlight story and dual protagonists. It felt like Assassin’s Creed was getting back on track and more focus was placed on the story of the assassins over the goings on back at Abstergo.

Assassin’s Creed Origins

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Ubisoft shook things up again with Origins, starting what has been dubbed the ‘RPG trilogy.’ Moving more into open-world experiences littered with great NPCs and more quests than you could ever need. Pretty much everything was overhauled from the ground up, though the story continued through these new entries. Ubisoft would go on to focus heavily on world-building and authentic representation. Origins took players to Egypt and gave us a more varied and dynamic game after complaints that the formula was stale.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

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From Egypt to Greece, the series was hitting its stride. Playing as a Spartan mercenary, the style of the game retained the assassinations but embraced a more action-packed flow of combat. With inspiration coming from the RPG genre, there was more emphasis placed on player choice, though the core story would rattle on at a pace, following what came before. Many consider this to be the prominent entry in recent years as it felt the most well-rounded.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

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Coming to the last part of the trilogy we got perhaps the largest Assassin’s Creed game to date, for better or worse. There is so much to do in this beautiful world that was realised by 14 different studios under Ubisoft. This is the franchise at its most ambitious and finishes off the story of Layla who is a part of saving the world from destruction. Some say the game is too big, while others say you can never have enough of a good thing.

Spin-Offs

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If you’re looking to fill in some gaps, you can look at the spin-off titles, several of which can be found on PlayStation Plus. You’ll be looking at Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India, and Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia. While these aren’t integral to the core story of Assassin’s Creed, they each offer something interesting through new assassins and locales. Due to the style of these games, they were designed to be shorter adventures that could be experienced with haste in between story updates.