Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™

The year is 1715. Pirates rule the Caribbean and have established their own lawless Republic where corruption, greediness and cruelty are commonplace.Among these outlaws is a brash young captain named Edward Kenway.

Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ is a pirates, open world and assassin game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
It's available only on Windows in 16 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 66,877 reviews of which 59,342 were positive and 7,535 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 11.99€ on Steam and has a 70% discount.

The Steam community has classified Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ into these genres:

Pirates Open World Assassin Adventure Action Stealth Parkour Third Person Naval Multiplayer Historical Story Rich Singleplayer Exploration Action-Adventure Naval Combat Atmospheric RPG Action RPG

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows Vista SP2
Processor: Intel Core2Quad Q8400 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with shader Model 4.0 or higher)
Storage: 30 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
Additional Notes: Windows-Compatible keyboard and mouse required, controller optional.

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

Everything that you love about the Assassin's Creed games is here: A nonsensical story about a clandestine war between Templar's and Assassins that has been going on for millennia and will go on until the Sun explodes. Since this isn't already dumb enough, of course, Aliens, their technology and their influence on Humanity. A childlike understanding of morality and the application of that to the overarching narrative and characters. The annoying modern-day Animus stuff is something the series should have ditched during the development process of the first game. Performance issues and bugs. Combat and stealth mechanics are barely held together by duct tape. Throwaway DLC that adds nothing to the main game, enhances nothing, and exists just to make money. But the game isn't a completely abject failure, which solely rests on the shoulders of the reason why this game is remembered quite fondly by people and liked, sailing around the Caribbean. It's fun to sail around, listen to some sea shanties, engage in naval combat, board enemy ships, plunder and do it all over again. The presentation, through its graphical fidelity and sound design, helps to bring this part of the game alive. This is the reason to play this game, because everything else is lacking. Characters are paraded around, but everyone is just a bad caricature and paper thin. The protagonist barely gets any character development, even though the story spans years. The side content is meaningless and useless. There is no point in doing assassinations when they pay so little. There is no point in robbing warehouses when you can just plunder another ship. The only thing that has any value and contributes to the gameplay are the sea shanties that can be collected. Hunting whales, sharks, and so on has its own minigame, which is nice, but almost all upgrades for the MC are not necessary in the slightest. Which, again, in turn means engaging with most of what the game has to offer is a waste of time. But once you're sailing around, most issues don't apply, though there are some undercooked parts of the game. Some of the upgrades for the ship are either useless or fluff. A fleet management thing that resembles mobile games with in-game timers before you can fiddle with it again. Which pays too little, so what's the point? Why not have big fleet battles that I have to engage in to get certain upgrades for my ship? Why not let me unlock different types of ships that are useful for certain areas of the map or better for engaging certain ships in combat ? There is fun to be had, and it is a decent game. The typical Assassin's Creed stuff is whatever, held back by the same mission types and just going through the motions. On the water, things change for the better, and you will have a jolly good time. But don't look too hard, or you will discover that the ship you're standing on is taking on water and is about to sink.

July 2024

Having only played AC1, AC2, Brotherhood, Revelations and AC4, gotta say for me AC4 is the most fun of the bunch. IMO, game still holds up visually. Naval gameplay is pretty cool. There's plenty of things to do, what amounts to quite alot gaming hours. Freedom Cry dlc is nice.

Feb. 2024

ASSASSIN'S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG ------------------------ What Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag has that Skull and Bones doesn't: [*]amazing and emotional story that will make you cry at the end [*]memorable characters that you won't forget [*]great facial animation that don't look like emotionless robots when they talk [*]epic cutscenes [*]beautiful atmosphere/lighting with better graphics & textures [*]open world that doesn't feel empty [*]freedom of movement. you can leave your ship to explore [*]beautiful islands and places that don't look identical to each other [*]beautiful and colorful water textures. And water effects, like for example: water droplets on wet clothes. Skull and Bones devs forgot about this insignificant detail after 10+ years of development [*]board the ships. Skull and Bones doesn't have main features of a pirate game. Accident? [*]replayability. I am playing for 5th time now and having a blast. [*]don't need a RTX 2070 and i7-8700K to play it ------------------------ What Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag doesn't have that Skull and Bones have: [*]microtransactions [*]10+ years of development [*]AAAA quadruple title RATING: 10/10

Feb. 2024

For those who are looking for a better skull & bones, much cheaper, much better content, many better mechanics and fewer predatory microtransactions, this is your game.

Feb. 2024

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag (2013) is a better game and a pirate game that is far superior than Skull and Bones (2024). The Ubisoft CEO says gamers should get more comfortable not owning games. Then, "If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing" is a popular phrase that would make Edward smile. Please be wary of your purchase.

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-70% 39.99€ 11.99€

8.7

59,342

7,535

Online players

2,466

Developer

Ubisoft Montreal

Publisher

Ubisoft

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