Assassin's Creed Shadows
Role-playing (RPG) / Adventure · 2025 · Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac
Open-world action RPG and the fourteenth main Assassin's Creed game, developed by Ubisoft Quebec as the successor to Mirage. You play Naoe, a shinobi, and Yasuke, a samurai, each with their own skills, weapons and stats. The game has very few permanent losses. The main risks are ally-recruitment dialogue choices and the Canon Mode setting.
Guides and missables below stop at this point. Move it forward as you play.
Quest walkthroughs
Quests for Prologue. Open a quest for step-by-step directions, choices, rewards and troubleshooting. Its full walkthrough reveals that quest’s details.
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Quick tips
Prologue
Learn the combat cues
Attacks marked with red flashes can't be blocked or parried, so dodge them. Parry attacks marked with white circles as soon as the circle appears to open the enemy up.
Prologue
Yasuke can break doors
Yasuke can break down doors by sprinting through them. This matters later in the game.
Prologue
Kosode choice
You pick a red or black silk kosode for Naoe at a tea ceremony. I found no source saying whether it is permanent, so treat it as cosmetic.
Things you can miss
Optional quests, items or choices you can lose access to by progressing past a point. Guides often call these “missables”.
Yaya (ally)Coming up
Can be lost after: Act 1: Early
Wrong dialogue answers in her companion quest can make her refuse to join, and players most often report losing her. She is lost once you finish or fail her recruitment quest; the exact point wasn't found in the sources.
Gennojo (ally)Coming up
Can be lost after: Act 1: Early
He is recruited through the "Missing Missive" quest chain, ending in a duel at the bamboo grove. He can't be recruited in Canon Mode, and wrong choices can also lose him.
"Build Your League" trophyComing up
Can be lost after: Act 1: Early
Recruiting your first ally is tagged missable on PSNProfiles, which follows from the ally dialogue risk.
All Assassin's Creed Shadows missables by stage (contains spoilers)
Opening this list shows every missable’s name, including ones past your spoiler line. Names only, no details.
- Yaya (ally) · can be lost after Act 1: Early
- Gennojo (ally) · can be lost after Act 1: Early
- "Build Your League" trophy · can be lost after Act 1: Early
- Gear after "Raise a Cup" (bug) · can be lost after Act 1: Late
- Legendary amulet · can be lost after Act 2
- Ibuki, Oni-yuri, Yagoro and Katsuhime (allies) · can be lost after Act 3
- Allies blocked by Canon Mode · can be lost after Act 3
- Remaining ally quests at Act 3 · can be lost after Act 3
- Quests blocked by dead NPCs (bug) · can be lost after Act 3
- Story trophies when offline · can be lost after Act 3
Guides and data last refreshed Nov 12, 2026. They are generated from web research and may contain mistakes.