11. Assassin’s Creed: Origins – 31.6 mile²
Ubisoft’s latest Assassin’s Creed title features its most detailed and immersive open world yet.
The open world of Origins was touted by the developer as the largest it has ever created, and while by sheer volume of that isn’t quite true – Black Flag, as we’ll see, holds that crown – it’s easily the largest landmass.
And because Black Flag is mostly open sea, Origins certainly feels much bigger.
But where do our measurements come from? Well, first we’ll stress that our calculations are unlikely to be 100% accurate, but they’re certainly very close. Credit goes to Reddit user venzIIF for most of the leg work.
Prior to the game’s launch, VenzIIF noted a livestream presentation of the game displayed a waypoint at 2035m from Bayek’s location on the map, so he booted up Black Flag and drew a line exactly the same distance from him.
He then downloaded a high-resolution image of Origin’s map and drew the same length line over top.
With that reference, he was then able to ascertain a rough 108.16km² box around Origin’s map. Of course, venziFF wasn’t to know whether the map on the livestream would end up as the final map in the finished game, but we know now that it in fact was.
As you can see from his image, though, he was including areas that weren’t traversable in the game (the blacked out sections of the map).
We’ve calculated the rough percentage of the map shaded in black at around 24% by blotting out rectangular and triangular shapes and deducting it from the total interior area. The result is 26.28km² less than 108.16km².
