Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time

Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time

Ubisoft · September 10, 2020 · Casual, VR, Exploration, Historical, Singleplayer

Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mostly Positive72% · 98 📈 Making a comeback 82%
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Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time price

Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time

On April 15, 2019, the world witnessed as Notre-Dame Cathedral was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire. While the cathedral is currently closed for restoration, it is still possible to visit it thanks to Ubisoft’s VR experience.

At the heart of the videogame Assassin’s Creed : Unity , the 3D reconstitution of Notre-Dame de Paris was the result of 5000 hours of detailed graphic work, guided by historians.

Adapted from on this acclaimed model, the virtual visit offers multiple point-of-views, some of which were inaccessible to the public, and ends spectacularly with a hot-air balloon flight over its arches, in a lively environment of Paris in the XVIIIth century.

In a 4 to 9 square meters zone, the visitor is invited to look around and take a few steps to admire each perspective of the monument, to the sound of its famous Cavaillé-Coll Organ performing J.S. Bach.

This experience has been shown for the first time at the UNESCO Headquarters on Heritage Days 2019 and was part of the South by Southwest Virtual Cinema 2020 selection.

Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Apr 24, 2025
Unbelievably bad, to the point of me wondering why they even spent the 2 hours to make this "experience" a reality. There are no controls. You just look around at some random points the game automatically teleports you around. No moving around, no inspecting details up close. There is no text to read about the history of the place or any of its parts, or anything at all. The graphics are so bad here it is mind bogging. It was definitely much better in Assassin's Creed Unity than it is here, even ignoring the crusty render scale here that cannot be changed. They had a perfectly good model already made for AC Unity years ago, and then they just compressed that into 2 pixels and put it out for free. It's just a waste of time.
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Recommended Jul 15, 2026
It would be great if Ubisoft and other game companies would do more things like this. Very cool! And for the accountants out there, I would pay for historical content.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 15, 2025
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Not recommended Apr 11, 2025
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Recommended Nov 16, 2025
Игра 'Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time' – это увлекательное путешествие в прошлое, позволяющее почувствовать дух средневекового Парижа и увидеть строительство знаменитого собора своими глазами. Визуально игра довольно привлекательна, хорошо передана атмосфера той эпохи. Интересно наблюдать за развитием архитектуры и быта, а также за тем, как создавался шедевр, ставший символом Франции. Геймплей может показаться немного однообразным, по сути это интерактивная экскурсия с элементами головоломок и поиска предметов. Однако, историческая ценность игры и образовательный аспект перевешивают этот недостаток. Игра заставляет задуматься о масштабе строительства и о той трагедии, которая произошла с собором в наши дни. Если вас интересует история, архитектура и вы хотите узнать больше о Нотр-Дам де Пари, то эта игра определенно стоит внимания. Ее можно рекомендовать как познавательное развлечение для всей семьи.
Recommended Nov 14, 2025
Considering that this is free, it is fine. The quality of the visuals is not the best and you cannot move around which is a bit of a drawback in potential for VR experience. Regardless, it is still an interesting piece of history.

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