Ubisoft and Xbox Expand Partnership: Free PC Copies for Xbox Owners of 12 Games

Ubisoft and Xbox revealed an expanded partnership today that grants Xbox owners free PC access to a dozen Ubisoft games through Ubisoft Connect. The offer covers major recent releases including Assassin's Creed Mirage, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Far Cry 6, and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, alongside live-service staples like Rainbow Six Siege and The Crew Motorfest. For players who have invested in these titles on console and are building a PC library, this eliminates the need to repurchase — a tangible savings that could run into hundreds of dollars depending on how many of the twelve you already own.

The games should appear in linked Ubisoft Connect libraries by August 4th, and any future Xbox purchases of these titles will automatically open up the PC versions as well. Account linking between Xbox and Ubisoft Connect is required for the entitlement to trigger. Critically, the benefit flows only one direction: buying these games on PC first does not grant access on Xbox. That asymmetry will frustrate players who started on PC and later picked up a console, but for the growing cohort moving from Xbox to PC, it is a meaningful quality-of-life upgrade.

Twelve Xbox Games Get Free PC Upgrades

The lineup covers classic single‑player journeys, tight co‑op shooters and sprawling online universes. Skull and Bones offers ship‑to‑ship brawls, though reviewers have been split since launch.

• Assassin's Creed Mirage
• Assassin's Creed Valhalla
• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
• Far Cry 6
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• Rainbow Six Siege
• The Crew Motorfest
• Rainbow Six Extraction
• The Crew 2
• Riders Republic
• Immortals Fenyx Rising
• Skull and Bones

For a player who owns even half of these on Xbox, the PC entitlements represent a substantial library transfer without waiting for a sale. The automatic future-purchase clause is especially valuable for live-service games like Siege and The Crew Motorfest where new operators, seasons, or vehicle passes might tempt a rebuy — now that rebuy covers both platforms instantly.

The Silent 12-Game Xbox PC Offer

Players must link their Xbox and Ubisoft Connect accounts to receive the PC copies, a straightforward process handled through the Ubisoft Connect client or website. Once linked, the entitlements should populate by the August 4th deadline. The system also applies retroactively: if you already own any of the twelve on Xbox, the PC version appears without additional steps. Going forward, purchasing any of these titles on Xbox will automatically grant the PC license, removing friction for players who game across both ecosystems.

The reverse is not true. A PC-first purchase of Assassin's Creed Valhalla or Rainbow Six Siege confers no Xbox entitlement. This mirrors the industry's broader hesitation around true cross-buy — publishers typically treat platforms as separate SKUs with separate revenue streams. Microsoft's own Play Anywhere program remains the gold standard for bidirectional ownership, but it applies only to first-party titles. Ubisoft's approach here is a publisher-led olive branch to Xbox owners, not a platform-wide policy shift.

Broader Context: Xbox's PC Push Continues

This announcement arrives alongside other signals that Xbox is deepening its PC integration. Last week, Microsoft added select backward-compatible original Xbox titles to the PC library via the Xbox app, with more promised. Ubisoft has also placed premium editions of upcoming games like Assassin's Creed Shadows on the Xbox PC app, suggesting tighter launch-day alignment between the storefronts. Rumors persist that Microsoft is developing a feature to digitize physical game libraries, possibly ahead of a next-generation console rumored to be more PC-like in architecture. Whether these moves form a single coordinated strategy or parallel experiments, the direction is clear: Xbox wants its ecosystem to span console and PC .

For players, the immediate takeaway is concrete: check your Ubisoft Connect library next week if you own any of the twelve games on Xbox. The long-term implication is that platform boundaries are softening, at least for publishers willing to participate. Ubisoft's willingness to forgo double-dip revenue on these titles suggests the value of keeping players in the Ubisoft Connect ecosystem — where they might buy DLC, battle passes, or future sequels — outweighs the lost PC sale. That calculus may not hold for every publisher, but it sets a precedent worth watching.

Watch for whether other publishers follow Ubisoft's lead with similar cross-entitlement programs. The next Xbox showcase or a major Ubisoft forward event could clarify if Assassin's Creed Shadows launches with day-one cross-buy, and whether the rumored physical-game digitization feature materializes. For now, Xbox owners with a PC on the side have a dozen reasons to link their accounts this week.