I Marathoned All Mainline Assassin's Creed Games Ahead of Black Flag Resynced, and Here's My Official Ranking

The moment Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was first officially announced, I set out to do the only reasonable thing a lifelong fan with too much time on their hands could: replay every mainline game in the series back to back over the course of several months. The original plan was simple—to arrive at the remake equipped with the whole series fresh in the mind—but somewhere around the middle of this venture, I realized I had the spine of a ranking, and, given the title of this piece, I think it's clear I leaned into that impulse. So, ahead of the release of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced on July 9, here is every mainline Assassin's Creed game, ranked.