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Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2015

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Quick resume

The first entry in the Assassin’s Creed Chronicles saga takes place in China, 1526, as the Ming dynasty starts to crumble. You embody Shao Jun, the last remaining Assassin of the Chinese Brotherhood, returning to her homeland with a vendetta.

Global score

74/100

Genres

Action, Adventure

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    Pros

    • Unique watercolor art style
    • Engaging stealth mechanics
    • Multiple playstyles and approaches
    • Historical chinese setting
    • Rewarding challenge and scoring system

    Cons

    • Short game length
    • Awkward keyboard controls
    • Linear level design
    • Simplistic story
    • Some technical issues with checkpoints

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of interest and enjoyment, not obligation."

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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      "The game is set in a stylized ancient China with some fictional elements but grounded in historical and cultural themes."

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention and timing; not suited for idle or casual background play."

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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      "Basic narrative with character dialogue and unlockable lore, but story is simple and secondary to gameplay."

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    • Strategy

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      "Requires tactical planning, timing, and problem solving in stealth and combat."

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Strategy, Competence.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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