Assassin’s Creed Shadows Quests Lists and Progression Guide

Complete list of all main and side quests in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. What quests unlock other quests and how to progress through them. We also have full lists of all optional quests in every region that are not tied to story progression.

Main Quests

The main quests of Assassin’s Creed Shadows are the ones you have to complete if you want to actually “finish the game”. There are a number of other side quests and additional activities to keep you busy for a long time after you “roll the credits”, which we list further down in this guide.

Acts and Story Segmentation

To help simplify things for you, we are going to list the main key points of the story – the Acts. Unless you check your Achievements or Trophies, you may not even know you have completed or started a new Act, but since their completion is sometimes a requirement for a new quest or story to become available, we have listed them in the table below:

Icon	Achievement	Requirements	Notes
	Prologue	Complete the Prologue	Tutorial missions starting with “The Lord’s Favor” up to and including “The Onryo Samurai“.
	A New League Rises	Complete Act 1 of the main story	Up to the moment when Yasuke joins the league (Belly of the Beast). Includes The Golden Teppo and The Wounded, and The Fool from The Shinbakufu.
	An Oath Fulfilled	Complete Act 2 of the main story	Assassinate The Mourner, The Naginata, The Noble, The Ox, The Wise, and The Fox.
	Fall of the Shinbakufu	Complete Act 3 of the main story	Complete The Shinbakufu questline and the personal questlines for Naoe, Yasuke, and Junjiro.1
	Epilogue	Complete the Epilogue	Complete Out of the Shadows.

The Shinbakufu Order

The next table shows all main quests from the Epilogue, Act 1, and Act 2. Many of them are a chain of quests but I am reducing them to the main objective. Please note that the Region column mentions only where a quest begins, many of them will take you to a different region.

The Shinbakufu is the main group of targets that you will be hunting down across the entire map of the game. Progressing through it unlocks a number of side quests.

Naoe and Yasuke’s quests

The quests for Naoe, Yasuke, and Junjiro are independent from the missions above, you can complete Act 2 without doing them, but some of them count towards the main story of the game. They are considered part of Act 3.

Naoe

Yasuke

Junjiro

Unattached Regional Side Quests

These side quests are available whenever you enter the region. No need to complete another quest, the only limitation is going to be your level.

Please note that the Sub-region column mentions only where a quest begins, many of them will take you to a different location.

We recommend not rushing forward to explore regions without properly following the story progression and the main questline. You will encounter high level enemies that will one-shot you and there is a chance some side quests may not even appear for you.

Izumi Settsu

Yamashiro

Omi

Harima

Iga

Wakasa

Yamato

Kii

Tamba

The Allies Quests

Naoe and Yasuke gather multiple allies through their journey. We have gathered the quests here for your convenience if you want to get them all done. They are explained in great detail in our Allies guide.

Every quest is also mentioned in the first table on this guide in accordance to where and when it becomes available.

Ability Unlocking Quests

For your convenience, we have put a list of all quests that are required to unlock all of the initially locked abilities for Naoe and Yasuke. We have listed all of them in our Mastery and Abilities Guide as well, of course.

Naoe’s Locked Abilities

Yasuke’s Locked Abilities

Free DLC Quests

The list below contains free quests added post-launch with a regular title update.

Footnotes:

1. To unlock and complete the epilogue quest you may not need to visit the Assassin Outpost from The Assassins questline. ↩︎
2. “Way of the Blacksmith” gets you started with The Hideout, which will play a key role in your character development and progression. Don’t forget to expand and improve it as you gain resources. ↩︎
3. “The Twisted Tree” unlocks after you complete “Inside Help” ↩︎
4. You first encounter Gennojo during the quest “Missing Missive”. To unlock his questline, you have to assassinate The Fool. ↩︎
5. You first meet Katsuhime during the quest “Against the Koga-ryu”. Her questline starts after “Requiem for Rokakku”. ↩︎
6. The Godai Shinobi questline becomes available after you complete “Requiem for Rokakku”. ↩︎
7. “The Tournament” is unlocked after you assassinate 9 of The Shinbakufu members. It doesn’t matter which of them, as long as their total number is 9. ↩︎
8. “Kurai Eikyou” unlocks after “A Chance Encounter”, which is the first quest from the chain to hunt down The Wise. ↩︎
9. Discovering the Assassin Outposts is not required for the completion of the main story. ↩︎
10. “Thrown to the Dogs” is a quest only available to players, who pre-ordered the game. ↩︎
11. You will earn small rewards for each of the sub-quests completed at each of the thresholds. ↩︎
12. “The Iron Hand Guild” starts in Sakai, but you will need to first unlock Yasuke by completing Act I of the main story. ↩︎
13. “Ambush Interrupted” is the optional side quest that starts the quest chain for recruiting Ibuki as your ally. ↩︎
14. “Sweet Lies” is the optional side quest that starts the quest chain for recruiting Oni-yori as an ally. ↩︎