The ‘Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced’ Metacritic Review Score Is In

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series has been a saga of ups and downs, but it’s almost universally agreed upon that 2013’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is one of its best.

Now, an acceptable 13 years later, Black Flag has returned with a “Resynced” remake, reviews for which have just gone live on Metacritic, coalescing into a score. So, how did it do?

With dozens of reviews in, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has an 84 Metacritic score on both PC and PS5. That’s not far off from the original version, which ranged from an 83 score on PS4 to an 86 on Xbox 360 to an 88 on PS3. And in the larger context of the market, an 84 is solid. In terms of larger-scale releases in 2026 here, that puts it inside the top 10, at least.

Black Flag Resynced comes in the wake of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, a controversial but fast-selling game in the series that scored an 81. Ubisoft has a number of AC games in the works, the highest-profile of which is the Salem Witch Trial-era Hexe, but it has undergone resource shifts, with dozens of devs reportedly transferring elsewhere in Ubisoft, and it has no firm release date, with estimates in 2027. Maybe. Ubisoft also has multiplayer and mobile titles in the works for the series.

Ubisoft stock has declined precipitously in the last five years, and there have been frequent talks of a sale or taking the company private, which have not materialized. Interestingly, over the last month, the stock is up 17%. We’ll see if it moves after these Black Flag numbers. Still, it is somewhat amazing that the company now has a market cap of just $879 million in an industry when Sony bought Bungie for $3.6 billion just a few years ago.

Black Flag Resynced is a critical hit, and we will have to see if that translates into sales to the wider public.

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