Owning one of 13 specific Ubisoft games on XBOX console now gets you the PC version at no extra cost. That’s one half of an expanded Ubisoft and XBOX partnership that went live today, and the other half is a much wider selection of premium editions and add-on content arriving for Ubisoft titles on XBOX on PC.
The PC side covers a broad slice of the Ubisoft catalog, with premium editions, add-on content, or both now available for games including Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Star Wars Outlaws, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Skull and Bones, and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Ubisoft also points to entries across the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, The Crew, and Watch Dogs franchises, so the additions run deeper than the five headline games.
The console-to-PC side runs through Ubisoft Connect rather than the XBOX app, and it applies to anyone who owns the digital XBOX console version of the following games:
- 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
Buying a digital copy of any listed game from today onward puts both the XBOX console and XBOX on PC versions in your account immediately. Existing owners are being handled through a progressive rollout that runs until August 4, and Ubisoft is asking players to update Ubisoft Connect to its newest version so the titles actually show up in their library.
There are a few limits worth knowing before you go digging through your library, starting with the fact that this only works in one direction. Owning a game on PC does not get you the console version. Editions and DLC you own on XBOX will carry over for most games, with consumables like in-game currency and one-time-use items excluded. Ubisoft Connect will display the edition name tied to your account, and each game’s Properties page breaks down exactly which add-on content made the trip.
In my Star Wars Outlaws review, I called it a stealthy slog, with bullet sponge enemies and gunplay that felt off next to The Division. The world was gorgeous and convincingly Star Wars, but the moment-to-moment gameplay was a letdown. Ubisoft has rolled out several major combat and stealth overhauls since then, though, so anyone picking it up now is getting something noticeably different from what I reviewed at launch.
