Overview

• Five current and former employees said management in Paris halted the concept in July 2024, according to Game File’s report.
• The pitched game centered on a formerly enslaved Black protagonist who would return to the postwar South as an Assassin to confront the emerging Ku Klux Klan.
• Sources cited two drivers for the decision: online backlash to Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Black samurai, Yasuke, and concern over a tense U.S. political climate.
• Work had not progressed beyond the concept phase and the title was years from release, with several developers expressing frustration at the cancellation.
• Ubisoft has not commented; CEO Yves Guillemot previously said the company aims not to push any specific agenda, and multiple outlets have echoed Game File’s reporting.