Assassin’s Creed Shadows: What your PC and Mac need to play

Yasuke and Naoe in Assassins Creed Shadows

Assassin’s Creed Shadows launched today on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC and Mac. Ubisoft’s latest Assassin's Creed title whisks you away to feudal Japan where you can step into the roles of both shinobi and samurai. If you plan to play the action-adventure game on your Windows PC, here are the minimum and the recommended system requirements.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Minimum system requirements

The minimum system requirements for Assassin’s Creed Shadows on PC are an Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor, Windows 10 / 11 OS with Direct X: Version 12, 16GB dual-channel RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 8GB/ AMD Radeon RX 5700 8GB/ Intel Arc A580 8GB (REBAR ON) graphics card and 115GB space on SSD.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Recommended system requirements

The recommended system requirements for Assassin’s Creed Shadows on PC are an Intel Core i5-11600K/AMD Ryzen 5 5600X processor, Windows 10 / 11 OS with Direct X: Version 12, 16 GB dual-channel RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060TI 8GB/ AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB/ Intel Arc B580 12GB (REBAR ON) graphics card and 115GB space on SSD.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows on Mac

When it comes to Apple’s MacBooks, only the ones powered by the Apple Silicon chip can run Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The game is also coming to the iPad in future.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Steam-exclusive items

On Steam, Assassin’s Creed Shadows offers exclusive collectable virtual trading cards, badges, emoticons and background images for players. These include the 9 trading cards (based on Naoe, Yasuke, Junjiro and the six recruitable allies), 6 versions of the badges based on the Assassin's Creed Shadows crest (including a foiled version), 5 emoticons (Naoe’s hood, Yasuke’s helmet, a torii gate, a kunai and a katana) and 6 background images for the Steam profile.

You can "earn up to half of the available trading cards simply by playing Assassin’s Creed Shadows; to complete the set, you’ll want to trade with friends and fellow players. Once you’ve earned the full set, you can use the trading cards to craft game badges, emoticons, and backgrounds, which can be displayed on your Steam profile", the developers said in a post on Steam.