Assassin's Creed: Rogue

Assassin’s Creed Rogue is an open-world action-adventure and stealth game from Ubisoft, with Ubisoft Sofia leading development. It first arrived on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2014, the same week as Assassin’s Creed Unity, and a Windows version followed in March 2015. A remastered edition came to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March 2018, the game later appeared on Nintendo Switch in The Rebel Collection in December 2019, and a Google Stadia release followed in October 2021. It was the final entry in the series made for that console generation.

The story takes place in the middle of the 18th century, during the French and Indian War, and fits between the events of Assassin’s Creed III and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Players follow Shay Patrick Cormac, a young Irish American sailor in the Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins who grows uneasy with the methods of his leaders. After a mission ends in disaster, Shay breaks with the Brotherhood, is left for dead, and eventually sides with the Templars, turning his skills against the friends he once served beside. A modern-day thread casts the player as an Abstergo employee who stumbles onto secrets while working through Shay’s memories.

Play blends third-person exploration on land with sailing and naval battles aboard Shay’s ship, the Morrigan. The map covers the icy North Atlantic, a fictional River Valley, and New York City, with islands, forts, settlements, and shipwrecks to visit. Shay carries an air rifle that fires darts and other ammunition and later gains a grenade launcher attachment, while enemy Assassins can hide, blend into crowds, and strike from above. The Morrigan can ram through ice, lay burning oil, and fight off boarding parties, and both Shay and the ship can be upgraded with materials from hunting, raiding, and collecting.

The campaign is a single-player experience with no multiplayer mode. Side content includes intercepting Assassins before they reach their targets, freeing prisoners, capturing forts, clearing gang hideouts, renovating buildings for income, and hunting down powerful Legendary Ships. Several retail editions offered extras such as an artbook, soundtrack, and bonus missions, and later downloadable packs added outfits, weapons, and ship options. The 2018 remaster bundled the earlier add-on content, improved the visuals, and supported 4K output on PS4 Pro and Xbox One X.

The project was code-named Comet before Ubisoft announced it in August 2014, and its writers built the plot around an Assassin who changes sides after a traumatic event, aiming for a protagonist who regrets the harm he causes rather than a simple villain. Several other Ubisoft studios contributed to development. Reviews were mixed: critics liked the idea of playing as a Templar, Shay’s character, and the naval sections, but many felt the game was short and leaned too heavily on what Black Flag had already done.