Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™
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This open-world action-adventure game puts players in the role of a pirate assassin. With 71,283 Steam reviews and an 88% positive rating, it demonstrates significant player interest. Developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft, it offers a large-scale pirate experience.
Overview
Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ is a Action game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. On Steam it has gathered 71,373 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer Ubisoft Montreal with publisher Ubisoft is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.2 million to 7.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
71,373
Positive
88%
Steam appid
242050
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.03.2M to 7.5M
units (median: 5.4M)
≈ $73.4M to $171.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| price_$40 | +15 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ at roughly 3.2 million to 7.5 million copies, with a median around 5.4 million, derived from its 71,373 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $122.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $24.97Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $24.97 to $39.99, averaging $37.54 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $24.97 on 2026-05-07.
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Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
PiratesOpen WorldAssassinAdventureActionStealthParkourThird PersonNavalMultiplayerHistoricalStory RichSingleplayerExplorationAction-AdventureNaval CombatAtmosphericRPGMatureAction RPG
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ sold?
- indielist estimates Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ has sold between 3,211,785 and 7,494,165 units (median 5,352,975), derived from its 71,373 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™?
- Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
- How many reviews does Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ have on Steam?
- Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ has 71,373 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Ubisoft Montreal's other releases and Ubisoft's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.