Overview

• Five current and former employees told Game File the unannounced project was halted in early development last July.
• The concept cast players as a Black man formerly enslaved who returns South during Reconstruction and confronts the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
• Three sources said Paris-based management acted after online backlash to Yasuke’s reveal and growing tensions in the United States.
• Developers described enthusiasm for the idea and frustration that leadership was avoiding contentious subjects.
• Sources noted that game cancellations are common at Ubisoft, though they called the stated rationale unusual.