Action · May 26, 2014

Watch_Dogs™ (2014)

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WATCH_DOGS™ COMPLETE EDITION Experience Watch_Dogs - the phenomenon of 2014 - with the biggest edition ever! As Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker, turn Chicago into the ultimate weapon in your quest for revenge. In this Complete Edition, including the game + Season Pass, access a new game mode, weapons, outfits and missions and plays as T-Bone, the legendary hacker in a brand new campaign! About the Game All it takes is the swipe of a finger. We connect with friends. We buy the latest gadgets and gear. We find out what’s happening in the world. But with that same simple swipe, we cast an increasingly expansive shadow. With each connection, we leave a digital trail that tracks our every move and milestone, our every like and dislike. And it’s not just people. Today, all major cities are networked. Urban infrastructures are monitored and controlled by complex operating systems. In Watch_Dogs, this system is called the Central Operating System (CTOS) – and it controls almost every piece of the city’s technology and holds key information on all of the city’s residents. You play as Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker and former thug, whose criminal past led to a violent family tragedy. Now on the hunt for those who hurt your family, you'll be able to monitor and hack all who surround you by manipulating everything connected to the city’s network. Access omnipresent security cameras, download personal information to locate a target, control traffic lights and public transportation to stop the enemy…and more. Use the city of Chicago as your ultimate weapon and exact your own style of revenge. KEY FEATURES HACK THE CITY Watch_Dogs takes place in a fully simulated living city where, using your smartphone, you have real-time control over the city’s infrastructure. Trap your enemy in a 30-car pileup by manipulating the traffic lights. Stop a train, and then board it to evade the authorities. Narrowly escape capture by quickly raising a drawbridge. Anything connected to the city’s CTOS can become your weapon. STREET JUSTICE Living in inner city Chicago where violence is best answered by violence, you have the skills to take the fight to the streets. Take down enemies by delivering devastating blows with your baton, or experience a shoot-out like never before with a physics simulation that rivals anything in the shooter category. Use a combination of shooting and hacking to gain advantage in any given situation. The streets are designed for you to create your own plan of attack. Overall, you will have access to more than 30 traditional weapons. HIGH OCTANE DRIVING Ubisoft Montreal has partnered with studios such as Ubisoft Reflections, the acclaimed studio behind the award-winning Driver series to bring you a game bursting with horsepower. Get behind the wheel of more than 65 vehicles, each with state of the art physics and handling, and explore the massive city while completing missions. EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL Disrupt, the all-new game engine dedicated to Watch_Dogs, uses advanced processing and graphics to deliver a stunning visual and an incredibly realistic experience. Disrupt gives you the power to affect the story, the city and the life of the population with your choices creating a ripple effect throughout the city. DYNAMIC NAVIGATION Watch_Dogs gives you the ability to not only use the city’s ctOS to your advantage, but the streets as well. In real-world Chicago, cut through buildings or climb to the rooftops to catch your target. SEAMLESS MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCE Discover new levels of interaction, cooperation and confrontation between players thanks to a brand new multiplayer game system that links the single and multiplayer modes into one seamless experience. That means no menus, no loading screens, just instant open world multiplayer action.

Action releases from 2014

146 Action titles launched in 2014 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume45.7k Steam reviewsTop 13% in Action
Positive rating78% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 73%
Metacritic77/100Genre average 77 — top 56% of Action titles
Concurrent peak388 playersTop 17% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours19 h averageTop 25% for session depth among Action

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Open World · 4.4k
  • Hacking · 3.5k
  • Action · 3.3k
  • Multiplayer · 2.0k
  • Third Person · 1.9k
  • Adventure · 1.5k
  • Stealth · 1.4k
  • Third-Person Shooter · 1.3k
  • Singleplayer · 1.2k
  • Shooter · 979
  • Atmospheric · 968
  • Parkour · 858
  • Epic · 417
  • Driving · 348
  • Co-op · 240

Peer Action titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

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  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Hungarian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil volume_up
  • Swedish

Full audio (7)

  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Portuguese - Portugal

Reception Metrics

Steam community

78%Mostly Positive · 45.7k reviews

35.7k positive · 10.1k negative

Metacritic

77/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

6.5/10

Curator recommendations

44.8k

Peak concurrent players

388

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Engagement Profile

All-time avg

19h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

9h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

0h

Current engagement

Achievements

49

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateMay 26, 2014
DeveloperUbisoft
Base price$4.99 -75%
Required age17+
DLC / Add-ons4 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards

Input & Comfort

  • Partial Controller Support

Other

  • Single-player

Content Notes

This is third-person shooter/action game in which players assume the role of Aiden Pearce, a hacker trying to find an evil mastermind.

Editions & Packages

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