Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition
Fair · Action · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $4.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2013. Buy it now if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 25,636
- Critics
- 79 players 2 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Score at full price
Score today
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 14.9h
- To 100%
- 30.6h 2.1x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 97 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 March 2013
- Sale every
- 45d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 71 now
- Recent reviews
- 76% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 83% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
March 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 97 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 6 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Assassin's Creed® Revelations ($5.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry ($3.74, scores 53).
More about Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 3,572 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 14.9 hours. Doing everything runs 31, 2.1 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
What a journey to the origins of the Assasin's Creed series. Even though I finished the game, I can't really recommend it. First issue appeared right after instalation - game instantly crashed after starting. After few fanmade patches it finally ran. But then further problems showed. First - you have to remember to launch the game only with the vsync enabled. Second - it turns out the game doesn't have subtitles...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I mean I don't even understand why I paid for digital garbage which can't even boot Not reccomend just pirate I bet it would atleast boot and won't freeze
Great game, you just have to shut off your internet to play it. But atleast there's no Ubisoft Connect!
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About the game
Assassin's Creed™ is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that redefines the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of...
Minimum specs
Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/15100/assassin-s-creed-director-s-cut-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.