Assassin’s Creed Mirage is officially coming to Steam.
Ubisoft made the announcement on the official Assassin’s Creed Twitter account. They said this:
“Assassin’s Creed Mirage is coming to Steam later this month. Add the game to your wishlist now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3035570/
As we celebrate one year since launch, we can’t wait to welcome more fans to our back to the roots experience set in 9th century Baghdad.”
The Steam page shows a release window for October 2024. Assassin’s Creed Mirage originally released on October 5, 2023 on PC via Ubisoft Connect and Epic Game Store. If Ubisoft was hoping to give Steam users the exact one year anniversary release, they already missed their chance to do it.
In any case, it should come to no surprise that just like the Epic Game Store listing, buying Assassin’s Creed Mirage on Steam will require you agree to its EULA and connecting to Ubisoft Connect. And yes, it will have Denuvo just like at launch. That last detail should have probably been expected since Ubisoft has not removed Denuvo on the Epic or Ubisoft Connect versions of the game, either.
It is not clear that Ubisoft intended to bring Assassin’s Creed Mirage to Steam at all. Last May 2023, we had noted that Ubisoft did not make any mentions of Steam at all in the game’s marketing.
Now, the game that came just before it, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, launched alongside the Xbox Series X|S on November 10, 2020, alongside other platforms. It then came to Steam on December 6, 2022. So the precedent suggested that Ubisoft would have waited as much as two years before bringing the game to Steam.
Ubisoft shifted strategy on PC, alongside Electronic Arts and Activision, to launch their own PC game store to sell their games on it. They also set conditions for at least their newer games to require logging on to their PC game store client or account to play their games on Steam and Epic Game Store.
That was a play for those publishers to get more money from consumers. Of course, the current prevailing market conditions and Ubisoft’s own recent missteps has made it harder to maintain that strategy. In fact, since word has gone around that the Guillemots might sell the company itself, we don’t even know if there will be a Ubisoft Connect in the future.
In any case, this may be a sign that Ubisoft could be bringing more of their games to Steam sooner. Perhaps their future schedule will just have games appear on Steam at the same date as other platforms. But we’ll see what happens in the next few days.
