Overview

• The shelved concept would have followed a formerly enslaved Black man recruited by the Assassins who returns to the South to confront the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.
• Sources say the project was stopped in the concept phase and was still years from release when development was ended.
• Three of the sources cited the online reaction to Yasuke’s role in Assassin’s Creed Shadows and a tense U.S. political climate, with one calling the idea “too political in a country too unstable.”
• One source also pointed to Ubisoft’s tighter finances as a factor that increased executive risk aversion.
• Ubisoft did not provide on-the-record comment, and developers described frustration with leadership’s decision, which several outlets have now reported based on Game File’s interviews.