Ubisoft is one of the biggest video game developers and publishers in the world. It has big brand names like Tom Clancy and Avatar, as well as smaller games and titles. It often makes large, open-world games, with many players noticing similarities between the various series it puts out.

Related
10 Open World Games That Are Best Played Linearly
While these games do offer a whole world for you to explore, it's best if you follow the set path.

But there’s also a lot of variety in its history of titles: family-friendly platformers, single-player stealth games, multiplayer battles, open-world adventures, and more. The company has attempted almost every genre of gaming over the years, with varying success. It has also developed big games into mega series across games, films, and television, such as Assassin’s Creed.

Updated January 23, 2024, by Grant Burton: This update adds several entries that were originally omitted from the ranking while also making the list easier and more enjoyable to read.

This list focuses on games developed by Ubisoft and, therefore, excludes those only published by the company.

16 Ghost Recon: Wildlands

Two squad members on motorbikes overlooking a huge vista in Ghost Recon Wildlands
  • The first open-world Tom Clancy game.
  • Can be played solo or with friends.

Ghost Recon: Wildlands was the first Tom Clancy game set entirely in an open world. It maintained everything that made the Tom Clancy brand identifiable, such as the tactics, team play, terrorist-themed story, and use of gadgets and tech. But it added vehicles and a diverse environment.

While the game is good to play with friends, it was riddled with bugs and glitches, and it wasn’t the most evolutionary open world game ever made either. While the gameplay lacks depth and sophistication, it is enjoyable when played with others.

15 For Honor

Two factions fighting in a 2v1 engagement in For Honor
  • A medieval set action game.
  • Play as one of several factions: Knights, Samurai, Vikings, or Ancient Chinese (more are available as DLC).
  • High difficulty.

Set in a medieval fantasy setting, For Honor has you and your friends playing as part of several factions. Knights, Samurai, Vikings, and Ancient Chinese. It’s a third-person action game all about melee combat, with different classes offering varying styles and skills in combat.

Related
14 Games To Play If You Liked For Honor
If you loved this medieval battlefield game but you want to find even more glory, check out these similar games.

For Honor is a difficult game, with tactics being essential for success. Ubisoft continued to support it for years after its initial release, with new factions, characters, and more. Various game modes allow some variety, too, meaning it's not just about beating each other up.

14 Beyond Good & Evil

Jade and Pey'j running in Beyond Good And Evil.
  • A linear, third-person action-adventure game.
  • Set in a fantastical, science fiction world.
  • A sequel might be on the way.

An action-adventure game with puzzle elements, Beyond Good & Evil is one of Ubisoft’s most iconic games, with a long-in-development sequel potentially still on the way. Focusing on Jade, an investigator with skills in combat, the story concerns an alien conspiracy, with wacky, unusual characters abundant.

The combat of the game is perhaps its weakest element, with the story and characters elevating it. Its age is also a deterrent now, with dated visuals and game design. However, as a linear, third-person action game, it was, at one point, one of the best ever made.

13 The Division 2

The Division 2 - image showing ruined Washington with three armed men walking past abandoned train and car
  • An online, action-driven, role-playing game.
  • Set in a near future, plague-riddled Washington D.C.

The Division 2, the sequel to The Division, is an online, action, role-playing game where you and your friends do battle in a near future Washington D.C. The game follows a classic, terrorist-themed story suitable for the Tom Clancy brand, and it offers hundreds of hours’ worth of content after completion.

Most significantly, The Division 2 is a big improvement over the first game. It has more to do, a more diverse, well-realized central location, and plenty more weapons, gear, and characters to play around with.

12 Immortals: Fenyx Rising

Fenyx flying on her wings, firing an arrow at a gryphon in Immortals Fenyx Rising
  • A fantastical open-world game about Greek Mythology.
  • Filled with humor and charm.
  • Often compared to Assassin's Creed and The Legend of Zelda.

Immortals: Fenyx Rising is equal parts Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While Immortals doesn’t reach the heights of either of those games, it borrows from them in the best possible ways.

If you're still uncertain whether this game is worth your time, consider checking out our review of Immortals: Fenyx Rising.

You play as Fenyx, a mercenary in a cartoonish version of Greek mythology. The game mixes exploration with puzzles and combat, adds ample amounts of charming humor and quirky characters, and lets you battle bosses with cool visuals and some great art direction, too. Immortals might be one of Ubisoft’s most underrated games.

11 Rainbow Six: Siege

Brava behind a corner in Rainbow Six Siege
  • A tactical shooter to be played with friends.
  • Emphasizes destruction and specialized skills.

In Rainbow Six: Siege, you and your friends take on a specialized position in a team of operatives, infiltrating or defending a location. It’s a tactical, online shooter that emphasizes environmental destruction.

Related
Rainbow Six Siege: The 15 Best Weapons For Defenders
These weapons will help you get the very best out of your role as a defender operator like Goyo, IQ, Maestro, or Mira.

Its initial release was met with a mixed reception, but Ubisoft has continued to support the game in the years that followed. New content has made Siege a game worth returning to, and its solid gunplay makes it one of the best first-person shooters around.

10 Rainbow Six: Vegas

3 team members taking down terrorists in a colorful, well lit area of the Las Vegas Strip in Rainbow Six Vegas
  • Mixes the classic, difficult, tactical shooting of Rainbow Six with a more modern, mainstream appeal.
  • Featured new mechanics, systems, health regeneration, weapons, cover methods, and more.
  • Influenced by games of the time, like Gears of War.

After years of making difficult, first-person, tactical shooters, Ubisoft shifted the Rainbow Six series into a more mainstream direction, and they perfected it with Rainbow Six: Vegas. Vegas introduced new mechanics, new health regeneration, new cover methods, and checkpoints.

Vegas made the game more accessible for new fans and players while maintaining the essence of what made the prior games so good. A focus on tactics and team play. It took inspiration from other games of the time, such as Gears of War, and made a game that elevated the series and the genre.

9 Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

The main cast of Mario and their Rabbid versions standing with weapons and smiling at the viewer
  • An entry-level tactics game.
  • Mixes Mario's charm with the Rabbid's humor.
  • DLC added Donkey Kong into the mix.

Many people look down on the Rabbids. They’re annoying, pesky things that make unfunny noises and often distract from everything else going on. Add in Mario and his friends, and the Rabbids become a bit of an afterthought. Mario + Rabbids is a fun, entry-level tactical game with plenty of variety and content.

Related
20 Best Tactical Strategy Games For Beginners
Getting into tactical strategy games can feel daunting at first, but these games can ease new players in while still providing a good challenge.

Mario + Rabbids is one of Ubisoft’s most surprisingly good games. It’s a tactical game where you maneuver your characters, either eliminating all foes, reaching a certain point on the map, or just surviving. It mixes classic Mario art design and characters with Rabbids-style humor.

8 Rayman Legends

Rayman Legends promo art
  • A mix of platforming and combat.
  • The best of the Rayman games.

Rayman is one of Ubisoft’s longest-running series that has evolved over the years in certain ways. It’s a series of platform games that’s all about traversal and combat, along with some colorful characters and environments, but Rayman Legends is the best of the bunch.

Released in 2013, Rayman Legends has some of the best-level designs of any platformer, with Metroidvania elements mixed in. As the game progresses, stealth mechanics are added, musical moments shine, and the challenge picks up throughout.

7 Watch Dogs 2

Marcus posing in Watch Dogs 2 cover art
  • Addressed criticism of the first game, adding color, humor, and a more likable protagonist.
  • Switched from a Chicago setting to San Francisco.
  • Mixes stealth, combat, and hacking mechanics with open-world driving.

After Watch Dogs failed to wow many players, Watch Dogs 2 added plenty of color, a more engaging protagonist, and a lighter tone and mood to affairs. The result was a game that was more fun and ultimately better than the original.

Related
Watch Dogs 2: The 10 Best Mods
These mods help enhance your Watch Dogs 2 experience.

Set in San Francisco, you can hack almost anything: cameras, cars, lights, billboards, bollards, elevators, stairs, signposts, and more. Watch Dogs 2 is a stealthy hacking game that’s at its best when it allows you to manipulate the world to your heart's content.

6 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Prince of Persia Sands of Time cover.
  • Platforming and combat mechanics mixed with time-bending replay-ability.
  • Brought the series into 3D gaming, moving away from 2D platforming.

The first and best attempt to reboot the Prince of Persia series was The Sands of Time. Here, you play as a Prince who finds a dagger that allows you to rewind time. This allows for cool gameplay moments where you can retry sequences, perfecting them and avoiding death in the process.

Outside the time mechanics, the game is a solid third-person action platformer with smooth combat and plenty of variety in skills and attacks. Adding to things is the art design, which adds a layer of grit and helps establish the mood and tone of the story well.

Here is our review of the far more recent Prince of Persia game, The Lost Crown.

5 Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag

Edward Kenway and a team of pirates in Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag art work
  • Works as an Assassin's Creed game and as a pirate fantasy.
  • A large open world features ship combat, exploration, jungles, cities, ruins, and underwater sections.

After the core story of Assassin’s Creed seemingly wrapped up with Assassin’s Creed 3, a mini reboot was needed. That’s when Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag came along. Black Flag took everything from the prior Assassin’s Creed games – the combat, the stealth, the ship mechanics – and built on them. It presented the series with its largest and most detailed open world, offering ship traversal, jungle escapades, and underwater moments.

What makes Black Flag better than most Assassin’s Creed games is that it works not only as an Assassin’s Creed game but also as a pirate fantasy. You play as Captain Edward Kenway in the golden age of piracy, interacting with legendary pirates and creating your own ship and crew along the way.

4 South Park: The Fractured But Whole

South Park The Fractured But Whole promo art
  • A South Park set role-playing game with turn-based combat.
  • One of the funniest games ever made.
  • Improved combat over the first game.

This sequel to South Park: The Stick of Truth, an Obsidian game, was not quite as good as the first one. But The Fractured But Whole did improve upon the combat of the first game, allowing for more variety, better timing, and greater movement.

Related
Ranking Each Of The South Park: The Fractured But Whole Classes
There are many classes to choose from in South Park: The Fractured But Whole, but which is the best?

What makes both South Park games so good is that they are some of the funniest games around, as long as you're a South Park fan. They are rude, crass, outrageous, and outlandish. They look and feel like the TV show, too, with nearly identical visuals. You can explore the town of South Park, uncover Easter eggs, and interact with all your favorite characters.

South Park: The Stick of Truth was developed by Obsidian Entertainment, not Ubisoft, which is why its sequel has been selected for this list instead. However, Ubisoft did publish The Stick of Truth.

3 Far Cry 3

Vaas Montenegro in Far Cry 3
  • Set on an exotic island roaming with psychopathic killers.
  • This game set the formula for many future Ubisoft open-world games.

Far Cry 3 is like almost all Far Cry games. It has you winding up in a mysterious, exotic location roaming with bad guys, and your objective is to escape, usually by means of killing everyone who gets in your way. What elevates Far Cry 3 above the others is the iconic villain and the gameplay format, which would be duplicated in all future Far Cry games and many future Ubisoft games.

Vaas, portrayed by Michael Mando, received critical acclaim and is one of the greatest video game characters ever. He’s psychotic, unhinged, and intriguing. He and the other cast of fun characters make Far Cry 3 better than most in the series. It has great shooting mechanics and a dense location to explore, too.

2 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Sam Fisher sneaking up on a bad guy with a knife in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
  • Considered by many to be the best Splinter Cell game.
  • This game had an improved engine, better lighting, and greater physics than prior games of the series.

The Splinter Cell series has no bad entries, but Chaos Theory was the one that revolutionized the stealth gameplay and established the core style and mechanics for the future of the series, as well as other Ubisoft series like Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed.

Related
The 22 Best Tom Clancy Games, Ranked
Tom Clancy, known for action-packed military thriller novels, has lent his name to some of the best tactical stealth games. These are our favorites.

Chaos Theory added a new engine and enhanced physics with better lighting, sound, and even fabric physics. The realism of animations and movements was improved upon, too. While future games would speed things up and tweak them slightly, the core mechanics remained the same throughout the series. The result was a game that holds up miraculously well despite its age.

1 Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

Assassin's Creed Odyssey - Kassandra In Conversation Wearing The Pegasos Set
  • This game pushed Assassin's Creed further into role-playing game territory.
  • You can play as either a male or female hero. Whomever you don't select becomes the primary antagonist.

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey was the follow-up to Origins and continued the series' push into RPG territory. You choose a character, make key decisions impacting the story, and mold the character to your desires in a way you never got to with Ezio or Arno. The game borrowed from Far Cry and past Ubisoft games to help establish the Ubisoft open-world format and style.

Additionally, Odyssey maintained the stealth and classic Assassin’s gameplay while expanding on the combat, adding elements of Greek mythology, plenty of content to deal with, and locations to explore. Odyssey is the best Assassin’s Creed because it brought in everything that worked in the past while adding and enhancing affairs with new content and components.

Next
Assassin’s Creed Games Ranked From Worst To Best
Assassin's Creed has become one of the most popular and endearing game series of our time, and the games range from weak to great.