Watch Dogs — Ubisoft Connect Offline Activation

Aiden Pearce hunting the people behind his niece's death, in a Chicago where a phone opens every door in the city.

The first Watch Dogs, made by Ubisoft Montreal in 2014, runs all of Chicago on one network, ctOS, and Aiden's phone gets into every part of it: switch the lights to cause a pile-up, raise a bridge or a bollard to end a chase, stop a train, black out a block or listen in through a webcam. The Profiler pulls up a stranger's secrets as you pass them, and when hacking is not enough there are guns, a baton and a whole city to drive. Between story missions come gang hideouts, criminal convoys and fixer contracts.

You can play Watch Dogs offline through the whole single-player campaign in Ubisoft Connect's offline mode. The online modes — hacking and tailing invasions, races and Decryption — need a live account and are not part of this.