We don’t have good news for fans of the Assassin’s Creed series. Ubisoft was to abandon another game from the appreciated universe.
Ubisoft hasn’t finished the “great reset” yet, and more bad news is already arriving for Assassin fans. After deleting several projects (and throwing the Prince of Persia Remake to the trash bin), it looks like the publisher has also cut out another title from the Assassin’s Creed universe.
According to the French website Origami, The project code-named Assassin’s Creed League was canceled. It was supposed to be an online, cooperative game for four people, in which a team of Assassins join forces in story missions – and according to some assumptions, the production could even be set in a similar era and atmosphere as Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
For a long time, Assassin’s Creed League was supposed to function as a “larger addition” to Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which would complete the season pass in a surprising way.
Over time, however, the plan was to evolve into a full-fledged game. The team in Annecy was reportedly considering various options: from “attaching” the cooperation technology to another, more classic Assassin’s Creed in production, to a smaller, stand-alone title that would use fragments of the Assassin’s Creed Shadows world and focus on replayability. At one point, the goal was even to launch invitational alpha tests… there was talk of May 2026.
And then the brutal reality set in: the project was to be stopped after a review as part of the new order and reorganization of Ubisoft (the newly launched Vantage company, co-financed by Tencent, also appears in the background). This doesn’t look like “throwing all the work into the trash” – according to Origami, some of the technical solutions are to be transferred to the Anvil engine, and a small team is now to prepare new ideas for cooperative modes that may be included in a future, major installment of the series.
For Ubisoft, this is another signal that the company is cutting without sentiment – even where the return of the multiplayer modes, beloved by some of the community, was at stake.
