Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced officially announced with Steam Deck support

Finally. After all the leaks, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has been officially announced and it does look pretty great overall. The release date is already confirmed too for July 9th, 2026.

Ubisoft say it is a "faithful recreation of Black Flag, enhanced in the latest version of the Anvil Engine featuring many improvements and new content and led by Ubisoft Singapore, with many of the original game’s developers returning to bring the game to the latest generation of hardware".

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There's quite a lot that's new, improved or just different:

• Graphical and technological enhancements

  • Built from the ground-up on the latest evolution of Ubisoft’s proprietary Anvil engine, used in Assassin’s Creed Shadows
  • Raytraced Lighting with Global Illumination (RTGI) and reflections.
  • Optimized Performance with 60 FPS options on consoles.
  • Graphics assets built from the ground up to support Micropolygon and Physically Based Rendering (PBR) pipelines.
  • Fully modernized water rendering and simulation.

• New and enhanced features, quests, and stories

  • Locate and assign new Officers to the Jackdaw, who each bring a special ability to naval combat.
  • Playas have been reworked, offering new rewards and unique encounters on islands across the map.
  • Additional missions and new scenes featuring Matt Ryan, Edward’s Original voice actor and the original cast.
  • More customization options for the Jackdaw, including new skins and the all-new ship’s pets to bring along a cat or monkey companion while you sail.
  • Reworked Kenway’s Fleet, which allows players to use captured ships to generate passive income through rare activities and trading, now available in the Captain’s Cabin and on all versions of AC Black Flag Resynced
  • The old shanties are back, but are joined by a new set of 10 songs for your crew to bellow as you sail.

• Reworked action-adventure combat featuring:

  • New visceral takedowns
  • New parrying mechanics
  • Quick-fire rope dart and pistol moves
  • A new enemy archetype – the Demolitionist

• New and enhanced stealth gameplay

  • Observe mode which extends Edward’s Eagle Vision.
  • Crouch-anywhere lets Edward lower his profile anywhere on land.
  • Dive-anywhere means Edward can stealthily approach seafront locations and ships.
  • Shadows and low light will affect Edward’s visibility during stealth sequences.

• Reworked naval combat

  • New secondary weapons have been added to try out in combat, including:
    • Shrapnel barrels explode and damage enemy sails.
    • 8-pounders open up more weakpoints in enemy ship hulls.
  • Enemy ships and factions reworked to add different equipment depending on their alliances.

• Enhanced parkour featuring moves like:

  • Manual jump
  • Side ejects
  • Height-gaining back ejects
  • Quicker interrupts between parkour moves

• Dynamic weather and objects

  • With Anvil’s Atmos system, the weather of the Caribbean becomes a character in its own right and brings the seas to life.
  • Destructible objects react to weather and combat: signs that move and shift with the wind, ships’ sails billow and blow, coconuts roll across the ground in a storm, and objects break when enemies are thrown against them.
  • Reworked water physics really brings home the feeling of sailing the Caribbean.

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Interestingly, it will have full Steam Deck support too. Ubisoft have confirmed this very clearly directly in their announcement. They said they will share more details later "for the Steam Deck version". It will be interesting to see if they actually make it Native, but they might just be optimizing it for Proton.

For now, here's the main PC specifications:

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Some important notes for you:

• It has Denuvo Anti-tamper.
• It requires a Ubisoft Account.
• £49.99 for the standard edition, £59.99 for the deluxe edition.

Will you be picking it up?