# Assassin's Creed

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Assassin's Creed and 13 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Well-known, long-running action series recommended for its brand and historical story. Critics agree the games repeat the same formula and have declined in quality.

## Why people recommend it

- Well-known, cool franchise (1 comments): "Assassin's Creed is also a really cool IP" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499287))
- Historical story with a black samurai (1 comments): "A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534543))

## What people warn about

- Repetitive formula and sameish quests (5 comments): "ever since the first Assassin's Creed their games have generally been the same formula of an overworld with a lot of repeated but sameish "quests"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844623)) "to progress the game forces you to do those fun things in a series of very rigid, repetitive, arbitrary challenges" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846961)) "it was so repetitive even within the same game (the first one)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846021))
- Quality declining with each release (3 comments): "milked them to death while lowering the quality game over game" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407658)) "they sure know how to ruin games that used to be fun" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478007)) "They managed to mess up Assassin's Creed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472611))
- Ubisoft seen as struggling (2 comments): "Ubisoft is not in a good place right now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672763)) "Enshittifying three whole product lines to own the workers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544890))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Breath of the Wild](https://hackerapproved.com/p/legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild.md): 27 recommend
- [The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time](https://hackerapproved.com/p/legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time.md): 17 recommend
- [Shadow of the Colossus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/shadow-of-the-colossus.md): 14 recommend
- [God of War](https://hackerapproved.com/p/god-of-war.md): 12 recommend
- [The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom](https://hackerapproved.com/p/legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom.md): 12 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Assassin's Creed", https://hackerapproved.com/p/assassin-s-creed/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).