Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced sells a whopping 2 million copies in just 24 hours

Murderer’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has completely stormed out of the harbor, promoting 2 million copies on its first day.

Ubisoft confirmed that the revamped pirate journey hit the milestone after launching on July 9, 2026, giving Edward Kenway’s return a really sturdy begin certainly. The corporate additionally revealed that Resynced ranked primary on Twitch on launch day and reached a peak of 99,451 concurrent gamers on Steam inside its first 24 hours, making it the very best concurrent participant rely ever recorded for an Murderer’s Creed recreation on the platform.

That’s a fairly large deal for what’s technically only a remake of a 2013 recreation, albeit one which has been rebuilt from the bottom up.

It’s additionally price placing this 2 million launch day determine up towards the unique Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag. The predecessor launched on October 29, 2013, and Ubisoft later reported that it had reached greater than 11 million sell-in and digital items by the tip of the 2013-14 monetary yr.

Now, that’s clearly not a one-to-one comparability, since Ubisoft’s older determine refers to sell-in and digital items quite than merely day-one gross sales, and the very fact we’re in a very totally different period now. Nonetheless, it does give the Resynced launch some context.

Hitting 2 million copies in 24 hours means the remake has already reached a sizeable chunk of the unique’s main gross sales milestone earlier than most of you on the market have even acquired near finishing the story.

It additionally exhibits simply how a lot love there nonetheless is for Black Flag particularly. Murderer’s Creed has gone via quite a lot of totally different ups and downs since Edward first set sail, however the pirate fantasy, naval fight, sea shanties, and Caribbean exploration have clearly stood the take a look at of time.

Ubisoft’s choice to carry again Black Flag seems to be to be very sensible in comparison with the standard questionable antics of the corporate, particularly in current occasions. The unique was already one of many collection’ most beloved entries, and Resynced now seems to be prefer it may turn into one in every of its greatest trendy success tales too.