Assassin's Creed Valhalla follows Eivor, a Viking raider raised on tales of battle and glory, who leaves a fractured Norway with the Raven Clan to find a new home in ninth-century England. Ubisoft Montreal carries the series' RPG direction from Origins and Odyssey into the Viking age, with a world shaped by your alliances, a settlement that grows alongside your story, and combat as brutal as the era it depicts.
Become Eivor of the Raven Clan
You can play Eivor as a man or a woman and switch between them whenever you like. Eivor sails west beside Sigurd, their sworn brother and the clan's jarl, into a land divided between Saxon kingdoms and the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok. Each region has its own story arc and its own power struggle, and the alliances you forge, the rulers you back and the dialogue choices you make all add up to a saga that ends differently depending on how you played it. Running underneath it all is the hidden war between the Hidden Ones and the Order of the Ancients, which pulls Eivor into the oldest conflict in the Assassin's Creed series.
Explore a Fractured England
- Roam a vast open world that spans the kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex, Northumbria and East Anglia, from Roman ruins and walled cities to marshland, forests and quiet rivers that your longship can follow deep inland.
- Head back across the sea to the icy coasts of Norway where Eivor's story begins, and step into visions of Asgard and Jotunheim, where the line between Eivor's life and the old myths starts to blur.
- Hunt legendary beasts and solve the Mysteries scattered across the map. You can also trade insults in flyting duels, play the dice game Orlog in taverns, and hold your own in drinking contests against local champions.
Combat for a Viking Raider
- Dual Wielding
- You can carry an axe, sword, flail or even a shield in each hand, and every pairing changes how Eivor fights. Heavy weapons stagger and break defenses, while lighter combinations let you string together fast, punishing attacks.
- Raids
- Sound the horn and your crew pours off the longship to storm monasteries and fortified camps. A raid is a group effort with your clan at your side, and the supplies and raw materials you take home pay for everything you build in your settlement.
- Hidden Blade & Stealth
- When open battle isn't the answer, blend into crowds, move along rooftops and take out targets quietly with the Hidden Blade. You can also stay back and thin the ranks with your bow, using different arrows for each situation.
Grow Ravensthorpe
Ravensthorpe starts as a handful of huts on a riverbank in Mercia and becomes the heart of the Raven Clan's new life. You can construct and upgrade a barracks, a smithy, a tattoo parlor and more, with each building opening up new services, upgrades and ways to customize Eivor and your clan. Recruit new members, take on stories from the people who settle there, and come home between campaigns to a place that keeps changing based on what you've done out in England.
Carve Your Own Path to Valhalla
Eivor's growth comes from a sprawling skill tree laid out like a night sky, plus abilities learned from Books of Knowledge hidden around the world. Combined with armor sets and weapons you upgrade at the smithy, that lets you build a berserker, a hunter, a shadow or anything in between. If you've ever wanted to live out a Viking saga, from the oath at the start to the feast at the end, Assassin's Creed Valhalla is waiting. Take the oar, set your course for England and write your own name into the sagas.
