You can pet every animal in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
In one of the greatest technological feats in recent computing memory, Ubisoft lets the player place functionally any animal in their Hideout. And then you can pet them: dogs, cats, monkeys, foxes, pigs, and deer alike.
You unlock the Hideout early in the game. It’s a beautiful, peaceful home base for Naoe, and over the course of the game various recruits come to stay there, giving the Hideout a cozy, small town feel. You can add to it by placing different kinds of buildings.
Out in the open world, Naoe can pet any dog or cat. Each variant gets added to your codex: for example, the fuzzy Black Akita Puppy that I meet in Settsu. The elegant adult Golden Akita waiting outside a blacksmith’s shop. The tabby cat slinking down a narrow alley.
I pet them all. Now they are mine.
Once back in the Hideout, you hop into the Build menu and boom — you can fill your home base with these tumbling little fuzzballs.
But Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes this a step further than I expected: by completing Sumi-e objectives, where you paint wild animals while running around the open world, you can also add them to your Hideout. And you can pet them, too. I’m talking deer, wild boar, and foxes.
Reader, I was stunned when I asked our games editor Zoë Hannah to send me a quick video of her Hideout so that I could make a TikTok, and she sent me evidence of a menagerie where akitas roam freely, while infant wild boars dance at their feet.
I certainly didn’t see this heavily advertised before the game came out, so I consider it my duty to tell you now. Turn your Hideout into a zoo, and live happily ever after. (Nothing bad happens in this game, right?)
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