By Sarah Fields
A new report claims that the long-rumored Assassin's Creed multiplayer game that was in development has been scrapped. While there's still some hope for future Assassin's Creed multiplayer projects, this news may come as a disappointment to those who were awaiting a modern AC game with a multiplayer component.
Multiplayer was introduced to Assassin's Creed franchise with Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood back in 2010, and variations of it were offered in following games like Revelations, Black Flag, and Unity. However, the franchise has gone without either a competitive or cooperative multiplayer mode for over a decade, and now hopes that another entry would be along soon have been shut down.
Assassin's Creed League Gets Shut Down
It's been revealed that an upcoming Assassin's Creed project that would have seen four assassins joining up in feudal Japan has been canceled. The news came via French site Origami, which claims that it verified the report with half a dozen Ubisoft employees. Called Assassin's Creed League, the project was initially intended to serve as DLC for the most recent entry, Assassin's Creed Shadows, and would have even produced some of the content arriving in the season pass for the game. Going beyond simple DLC, though, Assassin's Creed League would have created a new baseline that future Assassin's Creed games would utilize, re-introducing multiplayer to the franchise's future entries.
Ultimately, it appears that the developer felt that the project was taking too long, and that attaching it to Assassin's Creed Shadows wouldn't make much sense. However, the project wasn't fully scrapped at that point, with plans to spin it off as a small standalone multiplayer game that likely would have used assets from Assassin's Creed Shadows. An alpha of the multiplayer game wasn't expected to be available until May 2026. That has also now been scrapped, with the cancellation apparently coming as a surprise to Ubisoft Annecy leads, who only received the news themselves a week prior to this report.
Not All Is Necessarily Lost for Assassin's Creed Multiplayer Future
Although this spells the end of the chance of Assassin's Creed Shadows receiving an official multiplayer mode, there is still a little hope that the future of the series could see multiplayer again someday. A few of the team members who were working on the project have reportedly seen their tasks changed to taking what was accomplished with the AC League project back into Ubisoft's propietary Anvil game engine. This could open the door for multiplayer to be more easily introduced in future AC games, and at least means that all the work that was put into the project hasn't been completely lost.
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