After a three-year hiatus, Ubisoft has stated that it would once again distribute the game on Steam. When Assassin’s Creed Valhalla releases on December 6th, the break will come to an end.
Ubisoft said in a statement to Eurogamer on Monday, “We are continually reviewing how we can expose our games to a varied audience wherever they are while maintaining providing a consistent player ecology through Ubisoft Connect.” In addition to other Ubisoft games, Anno 1800 and Roller Champions are coming to Steam.
Anno 1800 and Roller Champions will also be available on Steam at an undetermined point in the future, according to the publisher. If Ubisoft has similar plans for other popular Steam games like Far Cry 6, Rainbow Six Extraction, Watch Dogs: Legion, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, or The Division 2, it hasn’t disclosed them. Future releases like Skull & Bones or Assassin’s Creed Mirage have not been mentioned by the developer as coming to Steam.
Valhalla’s release on Steam coincides with the game’s last major update, including a story epilogue. Unfortunately Ubisoft will not add New Game Plus.
There have been hints of Ubisoft returning to Steam over the past year and a half. In July 2021, the company said that the success of Steam Deck may cause them to reconsider the Steam blackout. Adding to the rumors, code referring to Ubisoft’s games and services appeared last fall and earlier this month.
The last major title Ubisoft released on his Steam was 2019’s Far Cry: New Dawn. The company has since released his PC games exclusively on the Epic Games Store and his Ubisoft Connect client. Like EA and Epic Games, Ubisoft didn’t like Valve’s 30% sales commission. Epic, on the other hand, costs him only 12%.
That disagreement didn’t stop EA from returning to Steam in 2019 after an eight-year absence. This brought many of the previous famous releases. In recent years, Microsoft has supported Steam for the first time with games like Halo, Forza Horizon, and Microsoft Flight Simulator. This year, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II became the first Call of Duty title available on Steam in five years, after being limited to Blizzard’s Battle.net service for some time.
Without using the Ubisoft launcher, a user would probably have trouble purchasing a Ubisoft game on Steam. It’s likely that he’ll need to use Ubisoft Connect to open Valhalla if you bought it on Steam. The question of whether they want to jointly offer a Ubisoft+ membership service is also raised by Ubisoft’s return to Steam. There is no reason for Ubisoft+ to establish a comparable setup when users can already purchase EA Play memberships through Steam.