Xbox has announced that it has expanded its partnership with Ubisoft, and if you own certain games from the publisher on console, you’ll now have free PC versions of them to play. Available right now, 13 games in total will be available for free through the Ubisoft Connect app on PC after you link your Xbox account:
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
- Far Cry 6
- Immortals Fenyx Rising
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Riders Republic
- Skull and Bones
- The Crew 2
- The Crew Motorfest
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
- Watch Dogs Legion
That’s a solid selection covering Ubisoft’s main franchises like Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six, while the addition of Immortals: Fenyx Rising–a perfect game to play if you just watched The Odyssey–Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. If you haven’t played any of the games listed above, you can still purchase them on Xbox, link your profile to your Ubisoft Connect account, and get a PC copy on the house.
The other big benefit players can look forward to is the premium editions of Ubisoft games through the Xbox PC app. Recent releases like Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Star Wars Outlaws are included alongside other entries from the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, The Crew, and Watch Dogs franchises. Xbox appears to be making some big moves lately in the PC gaming space–fitting, considering the rumors that Microsoft’s next-gen console Project Helix will be more PC-like in its design–and that a discs-to-digital program is also in development for Xbox users to help them transition toward an all-digital ecosystem.
Last week also saw the announcement that a curated number of original Xbox console games will be coming to PC, with more titles joining the first wave of old-school classics in the future. Each of the games–Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Fuzion Frenzy, Conker: Live and Reloaded, and Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge–also come with several enhancements, like improved resolution, customizable graphics, and various support settings, and Xbox says that the backwards-compatibility initiative on PC is just getting started.