Rayman Legends

Rayman Legends is one of those rare games where the underlying quality has never really been the question mark in its reviews. What's changed dramatically over the past few years is how much of that praise gets buried under a completely separate complaint about the platform it's delivered through.

A genre high point, still

"Rayman Legends is quite possibly the best 2D platformer released in the past 10 years," reads one of the earliest and most-upvoted reviews in the game's history, and reviewers a decade later are still making essentially the same case. The level design draws sustained, specific praise, particularly the music-synchronized levels that build entire stages around a song's rhythm — reviewers across every year describe these as some of the best moments platforming has ever produced. Co-op support for up to four players adds real, lasting replay value on top of an already excellent single-player campaign.

A launcher problem that's getting sharply worse

Here's what's actually dominating this game's negative reviews now, and the trend is worth stating precisely because it isn't stable — it's escalating. Rayman Legends requires Ubisoft Connect, a separate launcher and account system, to play even a Steam purchase. Reviewers describe a growing list of specific failures: progress wiped without warning, cloud saves disabled entirely, and account-verification emails that never arrive. "It wiped ALL my progress for NO REASON I WAS GOING FOR A 100% COMPLETION," reads a representative 2024 review. The volume tells the real story: 19 of the 100 most-upvoted negative reviews are dated 2023, climbing to 22 in 2024 and 24 in 2025 — a sharp, sustained increase that tracks Ubisoft's broader, independently well-documented reputation problems around server shutdowns and game preservation, with one reviewer explicitly referencing Ubisoft's 2023 decision to delist and shut down servers for The Crew as part of the same pattern of distrust.

An achievement made permanently impossible

The most concrete, specific consequence of this pattern: multiple reviewers report the "So Rich" achievement has become permanently unattainable after Ubisoft shut down the servers it depended on — not a bug, but a direct result of infrastructure Ubisoft chose to discontinue for a decade-old, fully-paid single-player-capable game. This is a small detail in isolation, but it's the kind of concrete, verifiable consequence that explains why so many reviewers who clearly love the game itself are still leaving negative reviews specifically about its publisher.

Reading the completion data

With 42 tracked achievements, the completion curve reflects a real drop-off consistent with what reviewers describe. Early milestones sit around 20-26%, already lower than many platformers at this tier, and the rarest achievements fall to 1-2%, a pattern this review's research suggests is compounded by the specific server-dependent achievement now permanently out of reach for new players.

7.5 out of 10. Rayman Legends remains an exceptional 2D platformer, and its level design, art and music are not seriously in question anywhere in this review history. The score reflects a real, sharply worsening pattern of access problems tied entirely to Ubisoft Connect rather than the game itself — progress loss, login failures, and at least one achievement now permanently unattainable due to a server shutdown. Buy it for the platforming; set up the launcher carefully and back up your saves independently given the trend in recent reviews.