Assassins Creed Shadowshas finally delivered the long-awaited feudal Japan Assassins Creedadventure people have been waiting for for years, and sure enough, the open world epic is attracting players in large numbers.As per SteamDB, on Thursday, the day of its global launch,Assassins Creed Shadowssaw a peak of 41,412 players on Steam. It has exceeded the all-time peaks for bothAssassins Creed Valhalla (15,679) and Mirage (7,870), though unlike those two, it did get a day one Steam release (not to mention Steam Deck compatibility right out the gate).Meanwhile,its peak is currently roughly equal to that ofAssassins Creed Origins(41,551), though it is separated byAssassins Creed Odysseyspeak (62,069) by quite some margin. That said, with the weekend around the corner,Shadowsis likely to see its numbers continuing to climb, as is usually the case with new releases.Assassins Creed Shadowsalso crossed 1 million players within under 24 hours of launch. It is available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Read our review through here, where we awarded it a score of 9/10.