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2021 · First-person shooter · Shooter
XDefiant
Ubisoft's worlds collide in a free-to-play, first-person arena shooter where you compete to be the best in fast-paced online matches!
- Released
- 5 August 2021
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5WindowsXbox Series X/S
- Genres
- First-person shooterShooter
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Multiplayer
- Perspective
- First person
- Themes
- Warfare
- Engine
- Snowdrop
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- ESRB TGRAC 15+ACB MCLASS_IND 14CERO CPEGI 16USK 16
- Languages
- Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and 4 more
About
XDefiant was a free-to-play first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft San Francisco and published by Ubisoft. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on May 21, 2024. It received mixed reviews from critics.
On December 3, 2024, Ubisoft announced that XDefiant would permanently shut down, with new player registrations and downloads no longer available, and the servers were sunset after a final update later that month. On June 3, 2025, the game fully shut down and was taken offline.
›Story
Ubisoft's worlds collide in a free-to-play, first-person arena shooter where you compete to be the best in fast-paced online matches!
Join an always-evolving experience with regular updates bringing new playable factions and a growing collection of maps, weapons, and game modes. With cross-play, you will be able to join your friends across available platforms.
Keywords
- class-based
- free-to-play
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
XDefiant featured a variety of factions and classes, each with their own unique abilities and weapons. It is set in the Ubisoft universe, map locations are based on multiple Ubisoft titles' in-game locations. Players engage in fast-paced, team-based multiplayer matches across a variety of maps and game modes.
The setting of the game revolves around factions called "Defiants", that previously appeared in other Ubisoft franchises. This includes The Division, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell from the Tom Clancy's brand as well as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Watch Dogs. Defiants are customizable with traits, abilities, devices, weapons and items. It has 6-versus-6 linear game modes (such as "Domination" and "Escort").
Development
Tom Clancy's XDefiant was announced by Ubisoft in July 2021. A closed Insider test of a pre-alpha version of XDefiant occurred in North America in 2021. A second Insider test was held in February 2023. A closed beta test began on April 13 and ended on April 23. In March 2022, the game was rebranded as a part of the Ubisoft Originals brand, dropping the Tom Clancy's universe title, as the inclusion of characters from other Ubisoft franchises was planned, including those from the Tom Clancy's universe, as previously mentioned.
On April 17, 2023, shortly after the launch of the game's closed beta, XDefiant became one of the top games to be streamed on the Twitch streaming platform, gaining around 50k viewers and passing the combined popularity of Warzone 2.0 and Modern Warfare II.
Reception
XDefiant received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received fair approval, being recommended by 51% of critics.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Built on it
- XDefiant: Season 1 - GSK
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