The File Size Of Every Assassin’s Creed Game

Summary

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the largest game at 103GB and features a detailed, massive world set in 16th century Japan.
• Assassin’s Creed Mirage has a smaller file size at 35GB due to its condensed story and design philosophy.
• Assassin’s Creed Origins marks a series evolution, impressively reviving the franchise with enhanced combat and exploration.

Most stealth video games revolve around hiding in the shadows, just waiting for the right moment to strike. They reward slow-paced and methodical gameplay and usually focus on level design to differentiate themselves from the competition. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed games take a very different approach, though.

These open-world stealth-like video games put the player in the shoes of assassins in older periods. The series has grown its parkour and combat systems since its inception, and it has also grown in technical requirements. As the series has grown in depth, however, so too have the file sizes of the games. Here are all the file sizes of every Assassin’s Creed game.

Updated on March 19, 2025 by Tom Hopkins: After a few delays, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has finally launched. Fans have been asked for the series to be set in Feudal Japan for as long as we can remember, but where does the new game’s file size compare to the other games?

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Assassin’s Creed (7 GB)

Assassin’s Creed is the game that started the entire franchise, praised by critics and fans alike for its great movement mechanics and engaging story. Believe it or not, this game only took up 7 Gigabytes of hard drive space at launch. Considering how massive this game is and how much there is to do, the file size for Assassin’s Creed is surprisingly small.

You go around as an assassin named Altaïr ibn-La’Ahad, using both stealth through concealment and fast-paced parkour to navigate massive cities during the Third Crusade. Combat is somewhat rough in this game, usually encouraging spamming attacks or plunging attacks, but the movement and the sprawling world were more than enough to keep you engaged.

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Assassin’s Creed 2 (8 GB)

While Assassin’s Creed had a few minor design issues and the plot was confusing, almost every negative was addressed in its sequel, Assassin’s Creed 2. You control Ezio as he makes his way into the assassin lifestyle. Desmond is trying to learn the secrets of the assassin versus the Templar war, as he always does.

The sense of scale through Italy in Assassin’s Creed 2 made it hard to beat compared to other entries in the series. Parkour was improved, combat had new layers of depth, and the mansion you could invest into gave a metagame progression system to encourage you to come back again and again. It was only one gigabyte larger than the last installment, requiring only 8 GB of hard drive space.

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Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (8 GB)

Continuing Ezio’s story, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is focused more on establishing a group of assassins than exploring a single plot thread. Similar to Assassin’s Creed 2, Brotherhood made some small updates to the core gameplay loop that helped separate it from the rest of the series.

One of the largest additions to this installment was multiplayer, having you control assassins that must kill others who are high-value targets. Clocking in at only 8 gigabytes, Brotherhood was a great Assassin’s Creed title that brought more of what fans loved.

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Assassin’s Creed Revelations (12 GB)

Ezio’s story reaches its epic conclusion in Assassin’s Creed Revelations. For 12 GB of space, this game provides similar gameplay to Brotherhood. Just like Brotherhood, Revelations includes some small improvements to its core gameplay to make it engaging.

Things like the hook blade and bomb crafting were appreciated, but there weren’t any massive renovations in its design. Instead, that focus went on the game’s epic story and phenomenal multiplayer, which was expanded in this installment to include team-based game modes and more maps.

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Assassin’s Creed 3 (16 GB)

The Revolutionary War seems like a strange time for an Assassin’s Creed game to take place, but it works surprisingly well in Assassin’s Creed 3. You play as a Native American named Connor, set to assist early-day America and unravel the Templar’s plans.

Running through snow and climbing through the trees rather than massive cities was the appeal here, but the core gameplay loop from the previous games was intact here. This game is 16 GB, double the size of Assassin’s Creed 2.

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Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag (30 GB)

Similar to how Assassin’s Creed 3 took a big gamble on its setting, Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag took a massive gamble on its gameplay loop. And it shows in its file size. This game took over 30 GB of hard drive space, nearly double what the last installment asked for.

What you get in return is well worth it, combining the slick combat and traversal the series is known for with phenomenal naval combat and exploration. Seriously, Black Flag is such an amazing game because of how fun and different its naval combat is. It’s arguably the best non-pirate-themed pirate game ever made.

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Assassin’s Creed Rogue (12 GB)

Assassin’s Creed Rogue had a fantastic premise, allowing you to control a Templar instead of an assassin and view events from their perspective.

Fans thought they were getting a massive game, but Rogue was very much an expansion-size video game instead of a true sequel like Brotherhood or Revelations. At 12 GB, this game had less content for you to experience compared to the naval-exploring Black Flag.

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Assassin’s Creed Unity (50 GB)

Assassin’s Creed Unity was advertised to be the next massive leap for the Assassin’s Creed series. Requiring a massive 50 GB of space, Unity was the most technically demanding Assassin’s Creed game to date. Unfortunately, this game was simply not polished on release.

Replicating horrendous early access video games, Unity included hundreds, if not thousands of bugs that would cause areas to stop rendering, frame rates to drop to the single digits, NPCs to float in the air, and even have character faces stop rendering, revealing their eyes and teeth instead. After countless patches and community-made memes, Unity remains a nice diversion from the main series, but it doesn’t hold its own compared to the past of future titles.

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Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (40 GB)

Syndicate takes place during the Industrial Revolution, allowing you to ride carriages and use grappling hooks to fight enemies. Compared to Unity, Syndicate only takes up 40 gigabytes of hard drive space to run and is substantially more stable.

Most fans of the Assassin’s Creed series were disappointed with the few innovations this game made, showing how bland the game’s combat has become. The story in this game is great, but the dated combat from the original Assassin’s Creed was desperately showing its age.

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Assassin’s Creed Origins (42 GB)

After the lukewarm reception of Syndicate, Ubisoft knew that the Assassin’s Creed franchise needed to evolve, or it would die in obscurity. That is why they took an extra year of development time to overhaul the series to wow fans.

Assassin’s Creed Origins is the fruit of that labour, and it is a fantastic example of how to revive a stale franchise. Combat took influences from the likes of Zelda and Dark Souls, focusing on player reactions through dodging and parrying instead of spamming attacks. Exploration is as good as ever, letting you climb up the Great Pyramids of Egypt while exploring its unique towns. It felt larger in scope, but the game was only 2 GB larger than Syndicate, requiring only 42 GB of hard drive space.

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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (46 GB)

Going forward in time is hard for Assassin’s Creed games to do, as going too far into history can result in hidden blades being quickly replaced with silenced firearms or more technology, harming stealth gameplay. Learning that mistake from Syndicate, Odyssey takes place not too far after Origins does, taking you to the mythical location of Greece.

Ancient philosophers are here alongside beautifully realized Greek architecture. The game features Origins’ combat and progression system while making some much-needed improvements to the formula. It might be 46 GB, but the scale of this game rivals modern RPGs like The Witcher 3.

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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (47 GB)

Set in the ninth century, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla allows you to channel your inner Viking in what is one of the most brutal Assassin’s Creed games to date. As you might expect, it’s packed full of Norse mythology and offers a few big improvements to general gameplay. The game’s main protagonist is one of the best we’ve seen in years, and their story is every bit as captivating.

Despite the game’s huge open world and its availability on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series platforms, the file size of Valhalla clocks in at just 47.1 GB. This does make it the largest game in the series when it comes to file size, but considering the huge step up in visual fidelity, it’s pretty impressive that Ubisoft was able to keep the game within just a few gigabytes of its predecessors.

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Assassin’s Creed Mirage (35GB)

With how every Assassin’s Creed game was getting increasingly strenuous on the systems they are being released on, it is shocking to see that Mirage has the smallest file size since Rogue. However, when looking at the design philosophy behind Mirage, it makes sense why this game has a slightly smaller install size than the games that came before it.

Mirage is intended to be a callback to the more condensed stories that were common with the earlier Assassin’s Creed games, and this is why the campaign is shorter as well. The game is still stunning on the modern console generation, explaining why it is still a lot bigger than the foundational games in the franchise.

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows (103GB)

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is comfortably the biggest Assassin’s Creed game released, at least when it comes to install size. Much of that is down to the beauty of the world and the amount of detail there is in every aspect.

While it not the biggest map the series has featured, it’s still massive – representing the majority of the south island of Japan in the 16th century. If you’re playing on console, you’ll need to free up a large amount of space to install Assassin’s Creed Shadows.