Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™

Discover Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, the classic pirate action-adventure game from 2013. Command your ship, hunt Templars and carve your legend as Edward Kenway across the Caribbean's Golden Age of Piracy.

Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher: Ubisoft
Franchise: Assassin's Creed
Store page updated: Apr 24, 2026
Price: $39.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

79.2/ 100

Based on 324 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating

Recent 😄 Very Positive 84% of 200

All time 😄 Very Positive 88% of 78,608

“fantastic game and childhood favorite”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

+1.02

Freedom +3.09 · Room to explore, build, and play your own way

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Story & World

+3.08

Story +2.70 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending

“heartfelt story of greed, loss and redemption with legendary figures” (41)

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Content Volume

+1.07

Volume +3.84 · How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price

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Visuals & Sound

+3.43

Audio +4.07 · Music, sound effects, and voice acting

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Multiplayer

-0.61

Netcode -3.94 · Server stability, ping, and disconnects

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Pricing & Fairness

-2.08

Pricing -1.83 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

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Tech & Support

-2.81

Developer support -3.30 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players

“forced online policy breaks Steam Deck compatibility” (22)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.