Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed built a blockbuster engine out of an unlikely premise: reliving ancestral memories to play through pivotal moments in history. Ubisoft's series is at its best as a time machine, reconstructing Renaissance Italy, Caribbean piracy, Ptolemaic Egypt, and Viking-era England with obsessive detail.

The games fall into recognizable eras. The original stealth entries established the parkour-and-hidden-blade formula, the Ezio trilogy gave it a beloved protagonist, the seafaring Kenway saga leaned into naval combat, and the sprawling role-playing reinvention that began with Origins remade the whole structure. A modern-day frame story about a long war between Assassins and Templars stitches it together, though the historical tourism is the real draw.

The brand has reached beyond games into a feature film, tie-in novels, and orchestral scores, but its identity stays anchored in the leap of faith into the past.

The Assassin's Creed franchise spans 14 books, 25 games, 1 movies, 1 music in the CrossBinge catalog.