Summary
- Ubisoft has added Steam achievements for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands.
- The company recently added Steam achievements for Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag and Assassin's Creed Unity.
- Ubisoft's recent focus on Steam reflects a shift in its approach to the platform.
Ubisoft recently added Steam Achievements to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon cutoff point AND Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands. This move follows recent updates made to Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag AND AC unitwhich also recently introduced achievements to the popular PC gaming platform, marking a new focus for Ubisoft.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands was released in 2017 and Breakpoint debuted in 2019. While the first game received mixed reviews, the second was more panned by reviewers, currently holding an average of just 57 on OpenCritic. Both of these titles were previously available on Steam, but ran using Ubisoft's launcher and had no native results on the third-party platform. In recent months, however, Ubisoft has paid more attention to Steam due to disappointing sales of eagerly anticipated titles like Star Wars Outlaws and Ubisoft shares lose value on the market.
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Now Ubisoft has added Steam achievements to both Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon cutoff point AND Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlandsfollowing the same update for the classic Assassin's Creed game Black Flag and the less popular ones Unit at the beginning of December. With these updates, players will be able to earn achievements natively on Steam instead of only being able to view them through platforms like Ubisoft Connect.
Which Ubisoft games have recently added achievements on Steam?
- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag
- Assassin's Creed Unity
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon cutoff point
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
The move certainly marks a change for Ubisoft, which used to take several months, if not years, to release its games on Steam, instead preferring its first-party launcher. At the beginning of 2024, for example, Skulls and bones was released on Steam approximately six months after its original release. The imminent Assassin's Creed Shadowson the other hand, it will be available for sale on Valve's platform from day one.
Despite the recent closeness, Ubisoft's relationship with Steam still seems lukewarm in some respects. Last month, insider reports indicated that Ubisoft wanted Valve to limit the visibility of player counts on Steam. According to these rumors, Ubisoft didn't like how Steam player count data was used to indicate a game's success and wanted to paint a more favorable picture for investors.
In any case, huge changes are expected for Ubisoft in 2025. Gaming analysts such as Joost van Dreunen believe that Ubisoft could be heading towards “privatisation and dismantling in 2025”, with reports of partners recently calling for the company to go private. it's still unclear what will happen next year and how this might affect the release of Ubisoft games on Steam, although it seems that the company is closer than ever to major PC video games showcase.
Ubisoft
Ubisoft is a well-known video game developer and publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé, France. Current CEO Yves Guillemot runs a number of teams responsible for some of the most iconic and well-known series in video games, with franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Farcry, The Crew, Just Dance and more. Ubisoft also serves as the parent company for a number of other video game developers, including names like Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft Paris, Blue Mammoth Games, Red Storm Entertainment, and more.
- Founding date
- March 28, 1986
- Site
- Saint Mandé, France
- CEO
- Yves Guillemot
