

Watch_Dogs™
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Past 36 months · Updated dailyPrices cover Steam and 39 authorized stores; only legitimate offers are counted. The chart shows weekly market-wide lows and Steam's official price across the past 36 months.




01About Watch_Dogs™
As Aiden Pearce, use a smartphone to turn Chicago’s connected infrastructure into an advantage while pursuing those who harmed your family. Hack cameras and traffic systems, fight on foot or drive across the city, combining hacking and gunplay to suit each situation. Steam player rating: 79% positive from 50,412 reviews. Supported interface languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Portuguese. Release date: May 26, 2014.
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$1.002025-01-23 · Ubisoft StoreBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| French | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Czech | Yes | Yes | — |
| Danish | Yes | Yes | — |
| Dutch | Yes | Yes | — |
| Hungarian | Yes | Yes | — |
| Polish | Yes | Yes | — |
| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Swedish | Yes | Yes | — |
| Finnish | Yes | Yes | — |
| Norwegian | Yes | Yes | — |
| Portuguese | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19
02Before you buy
Gameplay
Use Aiden Pearce’s smartphone to manipulate Chicago’s connected infrastructure, mixing hacking with combat and driving.
Modes and language
Steam lists single-player and multiplayer categories. German interface, full audio and subtitles are supported.
03Frequently asked questions
Who is the protagonist?
You play Aiden Pearce, a hacker pursuing those who harmed his family in Chicago.
What can Aiden hack?
The description highlights security cameras, personal information, traffic lights and public transportation.
What combat and driving options are described?
The description specifies more than 30 weapons and over 65 vehicles.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
stole $220 from a guy who was diagnosed with cancer 10/10Show moreShow less
The first mission is quite a difficult one where you have to repeatedly try to log in to the Uplay mainframe.Show moreShow less
Well, after 6 hours of just wandering around Chicago, hacking cameras and generally getting in to mischief I figured I'd do a review of my own. Is this game as good as the hype? No. But then let's face it, Ubisoft hasn't managed to pull off anything spectacular since Assassins Creed 2. What you do get is a very nice, if simple, experience. A huge city with masses of detail, idiotic but amusing side quests and general faffing about. I appear to be one of the lucky ones with regards software issues, in that I have not had a single one. The game runs perfectly for me, if a little slow on my i5 3570K, 16GB RAM and GTX 650ti 2GB, with all the settings to a mix of medium and high I maintain 30FPS quite happily, even in intensive moments. Some of the mechanics leave a great deal to be desired. The mouse control/acceleration issues are quite dire and really need fixing, as does the fact that the mouse is treated as a joypad thumbstick when using the phone or selecting a weapon. Speaking of which, the weapon selection wheel was designed by a blind chimpanzee in a coma using sign language derived from rectal sphincter muscle movements translated in to a crude form of speech. In other words it is complete poop. The same could be said for the car handling physics which are akin to a Blue Whale belly sliding on goose fat across an ice rink. With music. They are so bad I have to wonder if they might be improved by simply porting in the handling mechanics for the ships in Assassins Creed 4. But menu issues, car handling and the weird ass reflection issues (seriously Ubisoft, has no-one taught you how to do proper reflections yet) this game is fun. Mindless, for sure, but it IS fun. The question remains though, is it €60 of fun? I have to be honest and say I was given my copy by a friend on Reddit, so I did not part with any money, but had it been down to me to purchase it, I may well have decided to wait a few weeks for patches and fixes to be issued, as they surely will. EDIT: As an addendum to this review I would also like to add that I am firmly in the camp of "Get rid of Uplay" here. The system does not work and will never work as long as Ubisoft fail to recognise just how much work it actually takes to run this kind of setup properly. For the sake of all their customers they, and companies like EA should ditch their crummy, poorly maintained and broken services and hand over the delivery portion of their business to Valve, who at least managed to get the game out to people on time, and with no fuss. Oh and Valve, for god sake get some customer service staff, EA make you look like a damned college kid with a lemonade stand in that department.Show moreShow less
uDontplay. Edit: obviously, the game itself is fine and since launch problems have likely subsided, uCanplay now.Show moreShow less
Since this game is such a mixed bag, i'm going to summarise everything in bullet points. Storyline/characters: +If you want a long, engaging main storyline, this is pretty solid +Brilliant cast of supporting characters and antagonists +The Maurice burner phone side quest (seriously, do these) +Gang hideouts and certain criminal convoy missions (the ones where you can kill) -A rock's emotions > Aiden's emotions -Too many repetive fixer and crime profiler side quests (there are 40 fixer side quests -.-) -Theres an atrocious difficulty spike during the very final mission of the game, especially if your trying to keep karma -The serial killer side quest has a great buildup, but an anti-climatic ending -Theres almost no story benefit to finding the brief cases, weapon shipments, QR codes etc. They all end in a short phone call then thats it, no cutscene or anything really rewarding -Such sequel bait Gameplay: +Excellent shooting and cover mechanics, seriously cannot flaw this part +Enemy AI is BRILLIANT, they shoot where they THINK you are rather then laser beaming you +Hacking is good for the most part, steam pipes, bridge raising, blackouts and detonating grenades is satisfying +Stealth is good, and mixing this with hacking cameras for recon can be quite satisfying +Unlock the burst-fire revolver. DO IT. NAOW. -Although the key mechanics of hacking are great, it really really needs expanding upon with more options and variation -Sweet jesus the driving is painful, car damage works very weirdly, and for some reason when you use slow motion if you held down a key, say to turn left, then when you deactivate it seems to overcompensate and keep turning left even if your fingers not on the key, its really weird. Also you can't shoot out of cars, which i wouldn't mind if we had more oppertunities to hack other drivers. -The single most annoying thing by far, that had me nearly smashing my PC, is the inability to look directly up. Heli's float DIRECTLY ABOVE YOU, you can only disable them by looking DIRECTLY UP WHEN STOOD COMPLETELY STILL WITH THE PROFILER OUT. This becomes especially painful when it starts casually layering sniper bullets into you with pinpoint accuracy and you can't do a thing. -Using your phone by moving the mouse is a pain -Open seas are 2spooky4police Graphics: -Do i really need to mention this part? No they're not anywhere near as good as E3, and it can be pretty unstable when everythings on high or very high. I never had a crash and solid frame rate by keeping things on medium-high setting with motion blur off, but compared to shadow of mordor the PC port ain't great. Conclusion: Despite all the controversy, its definately worth a try if you can get it on sale. Make no mistake, its not the game we were promised, and it underperforms massively, but its still a good buy. It feels a bit like ubisoft has tried out a new formula, and whilst it needs refining, they're definately onto something good (no doubt a sequel is in order). 7/10 its good, but it feels incompleteShow moreShow less
8 Crashes in one hour. Really disappointed with Ubisoft on this one. I was excited to hear when they were pushing back the release date because it would mean a more polished game at launch right? Ubisoft made this game for Nvidia rigs only. If you have ANY AMD components, you'll likely suffer the same fate as me, crashes gallore (this isn't AMD's fault - more on this later). I have a Nvidia GTX 770 but an AMD FX 8350 processor. I thought I would be fine with a Nvidia card. I thought wrong. After doing some googling it turns out that Ubisoft gave AMD the back of its hand and worked exclusively with Nvidia in the creation of this game. Essentially, Nivida was allowed to place as much input as it wanted into the development of Watchdogs, but AMD wasn't allowed to even say hello. The result? Terrible performance (and crashes) with AMD rigs until AMD scrambles to put up a driver patch just because Ubisoft played favorites. Don't count on Ubisoft riding in to fix the problem for AMD users- Nvidia paid them off to make sure nothing like that's gonna happen. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bash on Nvidia, I've been a long time fan of their cards, but Ubisoft needs to work openly with both manufacturers and not play favorites or the whole pc gaming community will end up suffering as a result. Jason Evanelho from Forbes wrote a great article on this madness entitled "Why Watch Dogs is Bad News for AMD Users-- and Potentially the Entire PC Gaming Ecosystem" - well worth the readShow moreShow less
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Stop using UPlay Ubisoft.Show moreShow less
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Definately one of the best games that comes out this entire decade. 10/10, but there's one thing that I'd like to point out. The title is indeed, very, very, misleading. You can't watch dogs at all. So if you're an animal lover, this isn't the game for you. Tons of violence, and no animals.I've played for about 8 hours now, roaming the streets, and there's still no dogs to be found. All I've seen are people. Ubisoft, I demand a refund so I can buy a game that's actually based on watching dogs. Edit: Someone make a mod so we can actually watch dogs.Show moreShow less
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.
