Rumor: Ubisoft Has 11 Assassin's Creed Games Planned - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 July 2023 / 5,761 Views
Ubisoft appears to be putting all of its eggs in one basket with a big focus for its development teams being the Assassin's Creed franchise.
The publisher has confirmed five different entries in the franchise currently in development, while Insider Gaming's Tom Henderson is claiming there are 11 games in the series in at least the planning stages.
Confirmed Assassin's Creed games in development includes Assassin's Creed Mirage, which is set to release in October, Assassin's Creed Nexus VR, Assassin's Creed Codename Red, Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe, and Assassin's Creed Codename Jade.
It was also recently reported a remake of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is in development by Ubisoft. A team at Ubisoft Singapore will reportedly be heavily involved with the remake, which is still in early stages of development and will not be released for at least a few years.
The next entry in the series, Assassin's Creed Mirage, will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Amazon Luna on October 12.
Here is the list of Assassin's Creed that are reported to be in development:
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage [Single-player] (production) – October 12, 2023
- Assassin’s Creed Nexus [VR] (production) – 2023
- Assassin’s Creed Codename Jade [Mobile] (production) – Expected 2023
- Assassin’s Creed Codename Red [Single-player] (production) – Sources Suggest 2024
- Assassin’s Creed Codename Hexe [Single-player] (pre-production) – Expected 2025/2026
- Assassin’s Creed Codename Invictus [Multiplayer] (pre-production) – Expected 2025/2026
- Assassin’s Creed Codename Nebula [Single-player] (concept/prototype) – Unknown
- Assassin’s Creed Codename Raid [Multiplayer] (concept/prototype) – Unknown
- Assassin’s Creed Codename Echoes [Multiplayer] (concept/prototype) – Unknown
- Assassin’s Creed Nexus 2 [VR] (being discussed internally) – Unknown
- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Remake [Single-player] (just greenlit) – Unknown
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Only 11?
This looks like cancellation fodder. Half of these won't see the light of release.
Came here to say this
Have a feeling most of those multiplayer ones will end up cancelled. Ubisoft has tried AC multiplayer many times and it just never took off in popularity. Even if they try to battle royale the MP or something I just can't see it achieving the popularity needed on that first MP title, Invictus, for the other two, Raid and Echoes, to finish development and release.
As for the rest, they aren't too surprising. Mirage (Baghdad in the early 800's) is releasing later this year. Red (Feudal Japan) and Hexe (Holy Roman Empire during the European witch hunts in the 1500's) were already officially confirmed to be the next two mainline singleplayer AC games, as part of the AC Infinity initiative (multiple singleplayer campaigns sharing a common launcher/client and shared microtransaction purchases such as cosmetics), while Nexus VR and Jade, their mobile AC set in China, were also already announced. Only new titles here are the 3 MP ones, Nebula (likely the 3rd AC campaign within AC Infinity), discussions of a sequel to Nexus VR (not surprising), and the Black Flag remake, which isn't too surprising that they would remake the bestselling AC game to date. Some will say it's too soon for a Black Flag remake, but seeing as it released in 2013, and seems to be 4 years out from release, we'll be looking at a release 14 years after the original game, that is plenty of time to wait to remake a game.
Aside from all of that, it's normal for games to be canceled. So if several of those 11 games are early in the development cycle, it's likely that at least half of them will not make it to market. If we say that four of these games are deep into development, they will probably launch. But, of the other seven, assuming they are in early stages, probably only two or three of them end up making it all the way through to launching.
Wwaay waaay to many...man gaming nowadays sucks...back to ps2!
A bit much, ain't it?
This is all jade raymond's fault. Look what she created . We're never getting beyond good and evil2
they need more verity if want people to subscribe to UBI+ yes is like 100 games but they are all same 4-5 franchises
Talk about moronic.
Never played any of the games and have no interest in trying them in the future. Good luck though Ubi
Many of them are very good games. You should give them a try sometime.
11 including all the VR, mobile and multiplayer, which really isn’t AC’s forte. 5 when only counting the single-player games which does sound like a lot but several of those will be at least a few years away.
However, it does make it sound like Ubisoft are putting all their eggs in one basket.
They kind of are. Not so much one basket, but Ubisoft has basically said that their strategy moving forward is to focus most of their development resources on their biggest and most successful franchises, those being Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy's. They decided to refocus most of their resources on their core series because they have spent alot of the last generation making new IP's, both singleplayer and multiplayer, none of which really took off in the way they needed them to. They will still be working on a few titles outside of those 3 main series, such as Ubisoft Massive's Avatar and Star Wars games, The Crew Motorfest, the Prince of Persia remake, The Settlers: New Allies, and Beyond Good and Evil 2, which is still in development (hell?), but they basically will be releasing more games in their core series moving forwards as compared to this past generation. We will likely be seeing the return of yearly AC games like Ubisoft used to do, sometimes both a main game and a side game in the same year.
Jayzus Ubisoft going all out with this stale product
Glad we have Assassin Creed games to stratch our itch..
