"We're constantly evaluating how to bring our games to different audiences wherever they are, while providing a consistent player ecosystem through Ubisoft Connect," a Ubisoft spokesperson said in a statement provided to the press. Since then, releases from Far Cry 6 and Watch Dogs Legion to Immortals: Fenyx Rising and Ghost Recon: Breakpoint have all been unavailable on Valve's industry-dominating PC storefront. While Ubisoft eschewed Steam releases voluntarily, Epic continues to pay huge amounts of money for specific high-profile games to launch as timed exclusives on the Epic Games Store. The coming Steam versions are Ubisoft's first non-DLC releases on the platform since 2019, when Trials Rising and Starlink: Battle for Atlas launched on Steam. Ubisoft has also told Eurogamer that 2019's Anno 1800 and Roller Champions will be coming to Steam, confirming earlier rumors to that effect. That years-long experiment now seems to be ending, as Ubisoft has confirmed at least three recent PC releases will be getting Steam versions in the near future.Ī page for 2020's Assassin's Creed Valhalla was officially added to Steam Monday, listing a December 6 launch date on the platform. The World, The Division 2, and Watch Dogs: Legion followed in January, and now four more are on the way.Further Reading Ubisoft goes Steam-less, embraces Epic Games Store for The Division 2 Since early 2019, Ubisoft has made a point of moving its PC releases away from Steam and toward the Epic Games Store and its own Ubisoft connect platform. Sure enough, after store listings appeared in November, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Roller Champions, and Immortals Fenyx Rising all made their debuts on Steam.
Many Epic-exclusive game releases are timed, meaning they're committed to EGS for a set period of time-90 days, a year, whatever-but the Ubisoft releases were open ended.īut in November 2022, three years after the last full Ubisoft release on Steam, backend data indicated that Ubisoft games were about to make a return. It extended that deal a few months later, announcing Epic-exclusive plans for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake, Far Cry 6, Rainbow Six Extraction, The Settlers, and Riders Republic.
Ubisoft began moving its PC releases away from Steam in early 2019, when it announced that The Division 2 would be exclusive to the Epic Games Store-and Ubisoft's own storefront, of course.
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