One of the biggest highlights of the Assassin’s Creed franchise is the history-inspired sandbox that each game throws players into. From Renaissance-era Italy to Revolutionary-era France to Victorian London to Ancient Egypt, Assassin’s Creed has covered a lot of time periods and a lot of locations, each one dense with real-world historical landmarks. Assassin’s Creed Shadows introduces players to an all-new sandbox.
After years of asking, Ubisoft has finally given fans their Assassin’s Creed game set in Feudal Japan. Set right at the end of the Sengoku era, Assassin’s Creed Shadows opens with the downfall of daimyo Oda Nobunaga, and follows a country embroiled in war. With so much real-world history coursing through its veins, Assassin’s Creed Shadows seems like the perfect candidate for a Discovery Tour mode in the near future.
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Deserves Its Own Discovery Tour Mode
Assassin’s Creed’s Discovery Tour Mode Explained
Beginning with Assassin’s Creed Origins back in 2018, Ubisoft’s Discovery Tour mode is a completely pacifist way to enjoy the franchise’s beautifully-realized historical settings. As a range of different avatars, players can freely explore a variety of historical landmarks, meet historical figures, and embark on a range of guided tours that feature narration and text from leading historians.
Essentially a virtual museum, Assassin’s Creed‘s Discovery Tour mode is primarily designed to be an educational tool that lets students and those eager to learn more about history directly interact with the environments, tools, and people of the era. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey featured its own Discovery Tour mode, as did Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which brought some new features to the table.
In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla‘s Discovery Tour mode, players are given a handful of playable characters to choose from, each one granting a unique perspective on the world around them. Each of these characters has a questline that players can work through, teaching them more about the Viking and Anglo-Saxon ways of life through direct actions such as crafting a Viking longship. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla‘s Discovery Tour mode even included an explorable Asgard, filled with information about the Norse gods.
Discovery Tour can be bought as a standalone product, or can be played for free as a game mode inside Assassin’s Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Would Benefit Greatly From a Discovery Tour Mode
Assassin’s Creed Shadows‘ main story is littered with important historical moments and figures. However, due to the chaotic, complex, and fast-paced nature of the Sengoku period, a lot of that historical information can be quite hard to keep track of when playing AC Shadows, with new clans, daimyos, generals, and other political figures being thrown at the player constantly.
This onslaught of history-inspired content can make Assassin’s Creed Shadows‘ story a little difficult to follow at times, but it would give a potential Discovery Tour mode an abundance of content to work with. From country-shaping events like the Hanno-ji Incident, to landmarks that are still standing, like Osaka Castle, to legendary leaders like Tokugawa Ieyasu, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has no shortage of interesting details for a Discovery Tour mode to hone in on.
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March 20, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language