Ubisoft has revealed its next big content update for Assassin’s Creed Shadows will go live next week on 25th June 2025 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

This will be title update 1.0.6, and the French publisher teases it’ll contain a new questline, fresh characters, and a batch of quality of life improvements. This will follow on from last month’s update, which handed players a Dead by Daylight quest and some parkour upgrades.

A new difficulty mode is also coming in the patch: nightmare difficulty. Analysing the accompanying picture, it appears the content drop will include a new ally to fight alongside Naoe and Yasuke as well.

These free updates have arrived in accordance with Ubisoft’s content roadmap for the first year of support. According to the timeline, the first main expansion, Claws of Awaji, is still on the way, though there’s no confirmed release date just yet.

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