Ubisoft’s gradual tiptoe again onto Steam is about to proceed, with the writer’s satisfying 2020 action-adventure Immortals Fenyx Rising now confirmed as heading to Valve’s platform.
Launched on the tail-end of 2020, Fenyx Rising adopted the identical sample as all new Ubisoft PC releases since 2019, skipping Steam in favour of a twin launch on Ubisoft Join and Epic Video games Retailer – the place Epic was, maybe not coincidentally, wooing publishers and builders with a 12% income minimize in comparison with Valve’s 30%.
Nonetheless, it appeared Ubisoft’s place on its most well-liked storefronts was about to shift in November after listings for a Steam model of Murderer’s Creed Valhalla had been found, and the transfer was confirmed by the writer itself in December, when Valhalla, Anno 1800, and Curler Champions had been all introduced to be heading to Valve’s platform.
That line-up has now expanded by one, after a retailer itemizing for Immortals Fenyx Rising additionally appeared on Steam earlier this week, albeit with out a launch date past “coming quickly”. Ubisoft has but to verify whether or not its new distribution stance will apply to all future video games or if Steam releases shall be chosen on a person bases.
Immortals Fenyx Rising, for its half, is an honest little bit of enjoyable, taking Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s free-form open-world exploration, infusing it with some splendidly foolish Greek mythology aptitude, and Ubisoftifying it as much as the nines, with so many mini-map icons that the notion of exploration feels a bit moot when you’ll be able to’t transfer three ft with out stumbling over one other puzzle.
“I really feel for Immortals a bit,” wrote Eurogamer’s Christian Donlan in his evaluation again in 2020. “It is a skilful, lovingly made product, however it’s unmistakably a product, and the perfect video games on this style all really feel like real adventures.”
